I don't think we have talked about this MoM attempt too much in general, so here are couple of thoughts:
In comparison to other civs we are doing way better than we should be considering our 2v1 war in the early game. There are only couple of civs that are running away from us, but after that it seems like we pretty much come in the 2nd tier. Of course if one looks at the amount of land tiles in our demos, one can see that we are quite screwed unless something positive happens real soon. And with all being said, damn I wish we would have been the ones starting next to the already eliminated guys instead of our madness corner as in the end there will only be one winner and the rest are losers..
- The wonder is definitely nerfed in the latest version of the mod: Harder to build without marble bonus, no more synergy with Taj
- That being said, it's still a bit surprising that it has not fallen yet. You can still calculate that you are going to get at least 8 additional turns of GA, which is still a decent payoff for the effort
- Being IND, we of course get even better payoff for our hammer investment be it in the form of MoM or failgold (techs are quite expensive on this map, which increases the snowball value of extra gold).
- The city that is putting in the MoM effort might not even exist without this attempt. "KotoR" brought in a total of zero new resources, but it has nice forest surroundings. Thanks to our halted expansion our worker force was not busy with too many important tasks. Add in an IMP settler and I feel that this attempt has cost us close to nothing.
- Now that we are getting quite close to actually landing the wonder (although the theme of this game has been missing every target by a turn or even less), I'm actually starting to get my hopes up. Apart from the direct effect of the wonder, the fact that we will have a border city producing 10 culture per turn will be really useful. Of course this means we also need to protect the city from our maniac neighbors..
In comparison to other civs we are doing way better than we should be considering our 2v1 war in the early game. There are only couple of civs that are running away from us, but after that it seems like we pretty much come in the 2nd tier. Of course if one looks at the amount of land tiles in our demos, one can see that we are quite screwed unless something positive happens real soon. And with all being said, damn I wish we would have been the ones starting next to the already eliminated guys instead of our madness corner as in the end there will only be one winner and the rest are losers..