I think the most significant benefit you can get from it in a normal game is with the wonders that aren't off the typical tech paths and are nice to have but usually take a long time to hard build.
without wasting turns to build, as even on Apollo the AI almost never beats you to those if you make an active effort to get them. (again, in a standard game) It mainly helps you get early wonders like Panopticon, Gene Vault, Ecto Pod, etc.
The mere idea of the ability giving wonders for free really does sound like it would be OP, but the combination of wonders' lacking usefulness in BE and their placement on the tech web(most on outer ring techs you barely or never get to in a standard game) makes the ability not as good as it sounds on paper, even though it is still quite good.Įven with the ability you wouldn't bother to research the techs for most of the outer ring wonders, so gobbling up every wonder and going nuts is neither practical or efficient. I also imagine that the smart strategy playing against Pan-Asian is to eliminate Pan-Asian FIRST if at all possible. she would have an easy time of it walking away with any game where Pan-Asian is present. I don't know what it's like to play against Pan-Asian, but I imagine that unless Daoming is pointedly stooooopid. With less need to build up defensive/offensive armies, I could focus instead of Production and Science. Also, having built so many Wonders, it caused the opponents' Respect to be high enough that I could get Diplomatic stances of Cooperative = no one is declaring war on me. Primarily because of the advantage given by having all those Wonders. In short, I'm waaaayyyy ahead of every other faction in the game. Also incidentally, I have accrued all of the benefits associated with all of those Wonders. (I believe there are only about 5-10 Wonders left to be built.) As a result, my VP total score is points ahead of the #2 faction. Thus far I have built all but two of the completed Wonders. (And incidentally, accelerate population growth that also accelerates Research.) In my Marathon game on a Massive planet with 7 AI opponents I'm on Turn 750. As a player using Pan-Asian as my faction, I spawn cities ASAP.
Daoming's initial Trait is that she can have EVERY city she builds be able to construct nearly any Wonder in just one turn.