Poll-Favorite Wonder

[wmtrexler]

GW: Adam Smith's Co.
$$$$$$

SW: Military Academy
Build your own Armies

[Bella Hella]

i'll be different - i like the hoover dam a lot, so i'm gonna vote for it. of course the other wonders might be more useful, but i need the extra production that comes from a hydro plant in each city! and you can build solar plants on top of the hydros you get from the hoover dam. pretty groovy. (down with coal!)

for a small wonder, i have to say wall street for the simple reason that you can increase science spending. i like having 70% going to science, and can't do it without wall street. plus i don't think the forbidden palace should count as an option here.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Bella Hella
i'll be different - i like the hoover dam a lot, so i'm gonna vote for it. of course the other wonders might be more useful, but i need the extra production that comes from a hydro plant in each city! and you can build solar plants on top of the hydros you get from the hoover dam. pretty groovy. (down with coal!)

for a small wonder, i have to say wall street for the simple reason that you can increase science spending. i like having 70% going to science, and can't do it without wall street. plus i don't think the forbidden palace should count as an option here.

Solar plants don't combine with hydro plants. They are not cumulative. So, building Solar Plants is a waste of time.

[Bella Hella]

whaaaaat? are you sure? i thought i read somewhere that they ARE cumulative. well, if you build the hoover dam and a solar plant, they both appear in your city, so i don't see why they wouldn't both work together.

aw. dangit. i hope you're not right.

[Mr. President]

Library of Alexandria and the Pentagon.

[watorrey]

since this is a poll about favorite wonders, not necessary ones...

Hoover dam - i love the immediate increase in all my factories.

Heroic Epic - i also love having 3 armies fielded during an early middle ages campaign and the extra(?) leaders can be used to rush the important wonders in less productive cities after switching a prebuild to a university or something.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Bella Hella
whaaaaat? are you sure? i thought i read somewhere that they ARE cumulative. well, if you build the hoover dam and a solar plant, they both appear in your city, so i don't see why they wouldn't both work together.

aw. dangit. i hope you're not right.

You can also build a coal plant after you build Hoover. But don't trust me try it. Build the Dam, look and see how many shields you are producing. Then build the Solar Plant and see if the shields increase. They won't.

I wish I wasn't right, too!

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Tuberski


Solar plants don't combine with hydro plants. They are not cumulative. So, building Solar Plants is a waste of time.

This is true in terms of shield output...but some of us mod the solar plants to also reduce pollution, which makes them better!

[Grrr]

Great Library
Especially on higher levels. And is a real nuisance if it falls into AI hands.

Iron Works.

[jdd2007]

gw
hoover dam

sw
wall street

[AlecTrevylan00]

HEY! No more forbidden palace, k? Thats the easy choiice. i want interesting


Great Wonders-
1. Sistine Chapel-5
2. Adam Smith's Trading Co.-4
2. Great Library-4
3. Sun Tzu's Art of War-3
3. Hoover-3
4. Theory of Evolution-1
4. Leo's Workshop-1
4. Colossus-1
4. Pyramids-1
4. Colossus-1

Small Wonders
1. Heroic Epic-3
1. Wall Street-3
2. Pentagon-2
2. Iron Works-2
3. Intelligence Agency-1
3. SDI-1
3. Military Academy-1

[jdd2007]

i retract my previous vote for wall street as the best small wonder. my favorite sw is S D I . it has saved my ass many times

[AlecTrevylan00]

Great Wonders-
1. Sistine Chapel-5
2. Adam Smith's Trading Co.-4
2. Great Library-4
3. Sun Tzu's Art of War-3
3. Hoover-3
4. Theory of Evolution-1
4. Leo's Workshop-1
4. Colossus-1
4. Pyramids-1
4. Colossus-1

Small Wonders
1. Heroic Epic-3
2. Wall Street-2
2. SDI-2
2. Pentagon-2
2. Iron Works-2
3. Intelligence Agency-1
3. Military Academy-1

[Rosacrux]

- Sistine Chapel (with a close pyramids at the second place and J.S. Bach at third).

- Forbidden Palace

[Shaka II]

Colossus
A neat ancient wonder that the AI doesn't put much priority on.

Iron Works
It's always a fun challenge to see how many shields you can get out of a city with this wonder.

Was Lawrence of Arabia being facetious?