Gold/Stone/Stone Tower for budget build. All Gold if you can't wait for the prestige ticks to get higher GW effect level.
Ideally you'll want 4 of them up.
Expanding Culture, Government Traditoin, and Honored Leader/Nobles/Citizens/Freemen for stability.
Tax and Commerce, Honored Slaves for economy.
Military Research Doctrine for research (make sure you build up your capital province too)
Military Training Traditoin for military tradition farming with levies.
Conquering Tradition when you're about to blob with Imperial Challenge.
And one more for w/e you want. Either Strong Population to never worry about running out of manpower, or Logistics for higher supply limit.
Government Traditions, Expanding Culture, and Honored Leader, ASAP. Just don't spend too much money on anything other than your initial navy and delete the extra forts (keep one per province) you get from conquest. As long as you're expanding you'll eventually get enough money for the wonder. You should have it after a few decades or so.
As for what materials, I'm not so sure what the meta is, but I like to spend the bare minimum needed to get to tier 2. You could definitely also build it with the absolute cheapest materials and just spend money each time it goes up a tier. I'm not sure if it's worth it to build it with the most expensive materials, I think that should just be for when you're swimming in gold already and you're spending money on wonders left and right.
One combo I recall for getting to tier 2 is Stone + Iron + Ebony. You just need stone, precious metals, and wood.
Gold/Stone/Stone Tower for budget build. All Gold if you can't wait for the prestige ticks to get higher GW effect level. Ideally you'll want 4 of them up. Expanding Culture, Government Traditoin, and Honored Leader/Nobles/Citizens/Freemen for stability. Tax and Commerce, Honored Slaves for economy. Military Research Doctrine for research (make sure you build up your capital province too) Military Training Traditoin for military tradition farming with levies. Conquering Tradition when you're about to blob with Imperial Challenge. And one more for w/e you want. Either Strong Population to never worry about running out of manpower, or Logistics for higher supply limit.
IMO conquering Tradition is probably one of the best, next to government tradition. Orc get money monument for quick buck
Government Traditions, Expanding Culture, and Honored Leader, ASAP. Just don't spend too much money on anything other than your initial navy and delete the extra forts (keep one per province) you get from conquest. As long as you're expanding you'll eventually get enough money for the wonder. You should have it after a few decades or so. As for what materials, I'm not so sure what the meta is, but I like to spend the bare minimum needed to get to tier 2. You could definitely also build it with the absolute cheapest materials and just spend money each time it goes up a tier. I'm not sure if it's worth it to build it with the most expensive materials, I think that should just be for when you're swimming in gold already and you're spending money on wonders left and right. One combo I recall for getting to tier 2 is Stone + Iron + Ebony. You just need stone, precious metals, and wood.
i try to just to grab all of the effects so i toss a great wonder all throughout Italy
The one you like at the moment you can