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    Question about Wonders and WHERE to build them

    My understanding is that many, if not most, wonders bestow their added great person and culture points to the city in which they're built, unless the description specifically says otherwise. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

    My question is then this: How do you decide where to build wonders? Because typically my GP city has very few hammers so there's usually no chance I can build a wonder there before a rival civ. But if I build the wonder in a hammer city (typically my military city) I can build it all right, but then I'm not generating the GPP in the city designated for GPP production! And I don't usually have enough food in the military city to run the specialists necessary for GPP production.

    How should I be handling this?
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    For me, it's more a question of what wonders I want to build. Many (most?) of them are not necessary.

    If you can:

    MILITARY CITY: Pentagon; Great Wall
    SPECIALIST(Engineer) CITY: Pyramids; Three Gorges Dam
    SCIENCE CITY: Great Library; U of Sankore
    Trade CITY: Statue of Liberty; Temple of Artemis

    But if you deem a wonder to be a "must have" for your civ/strategy, just build it in your best production city (or use a Great Engineer).
    And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?". t s eliot

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    • #3
      Generally in my capital. It tends to be both strong in production and food.

      add to SPECIALIST(engineer)city: Hanging Gardens, Hagia Sophia.
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      • #4
        Originally posted by Theben
        Generally in my capital. It tends to be both strong in production and food.

        add to SPECIALIST(engineer)city: Hanging Gardens, Hagia Sophia.
        Could you imagine if your SPECIALIST(engineer)city had: Hanging Gardens; Hagia Sophia; Pyramids; Three Gorges Dam; Cristo Redentor and Iron Works National Wonder?
        And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?". t s eliot

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Supr49er


          Could you imagine if your SPECIALIST(engineer)city had: Hanging Gardens; Hagia Sophia; Pyramids; Three Gorges Dam; Cristo Redentor and Iron Works National Wonder?
          Add the national epic and that's what I use for my GE pump. It works really well if you can pull it off.
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          • #6
            While it's nice to be able to specialize cities in terms of which wonders to build in which, it's not common to be in a situation where you have the luxury to allow a slow city to build wonders. Usually the capital or alternatively a secondary city is the one in which you produce wonders and that's also how it should be.

            I agree that it's very nice to be able to have wonders that generate GPPs towards certain types of great people in assigned cities but it's way too rare for this to actualize, atleast for me.

            If I am given the possibility of specialization I usually just go with what GPP each wonder generates; Having the Colossus and the Great Lighthouse in one, the Pyramids and the Hanging Gardens in another, Great Library in third and so on. But again, it's not at all common for me to be in a situation where I can decide so I just build wonders where I can. National wonders are a different story, naturally.
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            • #7
              Originally posted by Fleme
              While it's nice to be able to specialize cities in terms of which wonders to build in which, it's not common to be in a situation where you have the luxury to allow a slow city to build wonders. Usually the capital or alternatively a secondary city is the one in which you produce wonders and that's also how it should be.

              I agree that it's very nice to be able to have wonders that generate GPPs towards certain types of great people in assigned cities but it's way too rare for this to actualize, atleast for me.

              If I am given the possibility of specialization I usually just go with what GPP each wonder generates; Having the Colossus and the Great Lighthouse in one, the Pyramids and the Hanging Gardens in another, Great Library in third and so on. But again, it's not at all common for me to be in a situation where I can decide so I just build wonders where I can. National wonders are a different story, naturally.
              Ah, I see. OK, I thought there was perhaps something that I was missing here, but it doesn't seem so.

              Thanks to you and the others who have replied so far!

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              • #8
                There are two kinds of GP Farms: a specialist farm and a production/wonder farm. While each type might be able to have one or two of the other element, rarely will you have a city with significant amounts of both.

                Most people usually a specialist GP Farm, and build wonders in "extra" production cities (but not their military production city).

                Wodan

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