8. Wonders

Wonders

Wonders are special buildings which can each be completed by only one player each game and which often enhance their entire civilization. Every wonder modifies the behavior of your units and cities. Once built, a wonder is placed in the city that constructed it, and cannot be sold or destroyed (unless the entire city is destroyed). However, some wonders are made obsolete by the discovery of a certain advance, and lose their effect. Note the asymmetry: while you must personally achieve the advance required by each wonder to build it, it will be disabled when any player achieves the obsoleting advance.

Catalog

Several schemes are possible for organizing the variety of wonders available in Golden Age of Civilizations. This table arranges them chronologically: each of the eras in the following table groups wonders which require similar numbers of advances before they can be built.

• Pr: Production cost
• Pu: Purchase cost
• Su: Support cost

Era	Name	Requirement	Obsolete by	Pu	Pr	Su	Effect
Bronze	Colossus	Bronze Working	Flight (Modern)	500	1,000	5	+50% trade of the city
Bronze	Pyramids	Masonry	None	2,500	5,000	25	+50% food in all your cities
Bronze	Great Wall	Masonry	Metallurgy (Gunpowder)	500	1,000	5	works as a city wall in all your cities
Bronze	Hanging Gardens	Pottery	Railroad (Gunpowder)	500	1,000	5	+50% luxury of every city
Iron	Lighthouse	Map Making	Magnetism (Gunpowder)	2,500	5,000	25	+50% step cumulation of sea units
Iron	Oracle	Mysticism	Theology (Gunpowder)	2,500	5,000	25	+50% luxury of every city
Exploration	Great Library	Literacy	Electricity (Industrial)	5,000	10,000	50	+100% science points in all your cities
Exploration	Marco Polo's Embassy	Trade	Communism (Industrial)	5,000	10,000	50	at the moment: nothing
Exploration	Copernicus' Observatory	Astronomy	None	25,000	50,000	250	+100% science points in the city
Exploration	Sun Tzu's War Academy	Feudalism	Mobile Warfare (High-tech)	5,000	10,000	50	+50% attack power of land units
Exploration	King Richard's Crusade	Engineering	Robotics (High-tech)	5,000	10,000	50	+50% production of the city
Exploration	Magellan's Expedition	Navigation	None	25,000	50,000	250	+50% step cumulation of sea units
Exploration	Leonardo's Workshop	Invention	Automobile (Modern)	50,000	100,000	500	upgrades two obsolete units per day
Exploration	Michelangelo's Chapel	Monotheism	None	25,000	50,000	250	counts as having a Cathedral in all your cities
Exploration	Shakespeare's Theatre	Medicine	None	25,000	50,000	250	+50% luxury in the city
Gunpowder	Isaac Newton's College	Theory of Gravity	None	250,000	500,000	2,500	+100% science in all your cities
Gunpowder	J.S. Bach's Cathedral	Theology	None	250,000	500,000	2,500	+100% luxury in all your cities
Gunpowder	Statue of Liberty	Democracy	None	250,000	500,000	2,500	allows you to choose government without anarchy
Gunpowder	Adam Smith's Trading Company	Economics	None	250,000	500,000	2,500	+100% trade in all your cities
Gunpowder	Eiffel Tower	Steam Engine	None	500,000	1,000,000	5,000	at the moment: nothing
Gunpowder	Darwin's Voyage	Railroad	None	500,000	1,000,000	5,000	+25000 science points
Industrial	Women's Suffrage	Industrialization	None	2,000,000	4,000,000	20,000	counts as a police station in all your cities
Industrial	United Nations	Communism	None	2,000,000	4,000,000	20,000	+50% step cumulation of all units
Modern	Cure For Cancer	Genetic Engineering	None	50,000,000	100,000,000	500,000	+50% luxury in all your cities
Modern	Hoover Dam	Electronics	None	50,000,000	100,000,000	500,000	works as if you had a Hydro Plant in every city
High-tech	Manhattan Project	Nuclear Fission	None	200,000,000	400,000,000	2,000,000	at the moment: nothing
High-tech	SETI Program	Computers	None	500,000,000	1,000,000,000	5,000,000	+100% science points in all your cities
Space	Apollo Program	Space Flight	None	2,000,000,000	4,000,000,000	20,000,000	at the moment: nothing

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