Wonder | Current state | My suggestion | Reasoning |
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Great Aqueduct (Constantinople) | Public health bonus: 25% | Public health bonus: 25% | Well balanced
Main source of water supply
Adding a higher bonus would make it too strong[1] |
Hagia Sophia (Constantinople) | Public order bonus due to law: 25%
Public order bonus due to happiness: 45% | Public order bonus due to law: 15%
Public order bonus due to happiness: 45%
Religion conversion bonus: 5% | Rather well balanced
Greatest cathedral of the known world for nearly a millennia
Unrivalled centre of the Orthodox Church (until its capture)
Integral part of Imperial life (coronations, etc)
Used by the Ottomans to spread Islam by turning it into a mosque |
Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem) | Public order bonus due to law: 5%
Public order bonus due to happiness: 5% | Public order bonus due to happiness: 50%[2]
Increase in tradeable goods
Income bonus: +750[2] | Underperforming
Contains Christendom's two holiest sites
Main centre of catholic pilgrimage prior to seizure by the Muslims |
Dome of the Rock (Jerusalem) | Public order bonus due to law: 5%
Public order bonus due to happiness: 5%
Increase in tradeable goods | Public order bonus due to law: -5%
Public order bonus due to happiness: 5%
Increase in tradeable goods | Difficult to balance
Judaism's holiest site (Foundation stone)
Supposed site of Muhammad's ascension
Augustinian Church (→ Happiness even for Christians) |
al Ka'bah (Mecca) | Public order bonus due to happiness: 15%
Increase in tradeable goods | Public order bonus due to happiness: 60%
Increase in tradeable goods
Income bonus: +1250
Public order bonus due to law: -10% | Heavily underperforming
Islam's holiest site
Main centre of the Hajj (massive pilgrimage → lower law than Ch. o. Hl. Sepulchre) |
St Mark's Basilica (Venice) | Public order bonus due to happiness: 20%
Public order bonus due to law: 10% | Public order bonus due to happiness: 20%
Upgradeable | Rather well balanced
At first private chapel of the Doges
Over time, reworked facade and decorated → centre of political life (installation and burial of Doges) |
Notre Dame (Paris) | Public order bonus due to happiness: 25%
Public order bonus due to law: 15% | Public order bonus due to happiness: 20%
Public order bonus due to law: 5%
Upgradeable[3] | Rather well balanced
Founded due to the former cathedral being too small
Going to become a masterful work of Gothic architecture |
Cordoba Mosque
(Cordoba) | Public order bonus due to law: 5%
Public order bonus due to happiness: 5% | Public order bonus due to law: 10%
Public order bonus due to happiness: 30%
Increase in tradeable goods | Underperforming
Fuelled regional industry (stone quarries, marble etc) |
Cathedral of Palermo (Palermo) | Public order bonus due to happiness: 35%
Public order bonus due to law: 25%
Public health bonus: 15% | Public order bonus due to happiness: 25%
Public health bonus: 5% | Overperforming
By no means as influential as other major churches
Not build at the game start [4] |
Bayt al Hikma (Baghdad) | Public order bonus due to happiness: 50%
Public order bonus due to law: 25% | Public order bonus due to happiness: 30%
Public order bonus due to law: 15%
Public health bonus: 15%
Decrease in construction cost: 5% | Rather well balanced
Biggest library of the known world
Advantages in many fields, notably medicine, architecture, mathematics, physics |
Church of Santiago (Santiago de Compostela) | Church:
Public order bonus due to happiness: 15%
Population growth bonus: 1%
Increase in tradeable goods
Income bonus: +1000
Cathedral:
Public order bonus due to happiness: 30%
Population growth bonus: 2%
Increase in tradeable goods
Income bonus: +2000 | Church:
Public order bonus due to happiness: 15%
Population growth bonus: 1%
Increase in tradeable goods
Income bonus: +250
Cathedral:
Public order bonus due to happiness: 30%
Population growth bonus: 2%
Increase in tradeable goods
Income bonus: +500 | Overperforming
Major centre of Christian pilgrimage, but only after the Muslims seized control of the Holy Land
Not as important as Rome or Jerusalem |
Castel Sant' Angelo (Rome) | Public order bonus due to law: 15% | Public order bonus due to law: 15% | Well balanced[5] |
Al-Azhar Mosque (Cairo) | Public order bonus due to law: -10%
Public order bonus due to happiness: 10%
Increase in tradeable goods | Public order bonus due to law: -10%
Public order bonus due to happiness: 15%
Increase in tradeable goods | Well balanced
If the Fatimids kept in control, it might have been an even greater centre of learning |
Umayyad Mosque (Damascus) | Public order bonus due to happiness: 15%
Religion conversion bonus: 2% | Public order bonus due to happiness: 25%
Religion conversion bonus: 2% | Rather well balanced
Holy site of Islam, contains the remains of John the Baptist |