How does Trajan’s Column work?

[The_Pastmaster]

So I'm playing rome and I'm in the Classical or... Ren-whatever-stupid-French-spelling-it-has era and accoding to the description I should get to pick a free City Centre building. But all the cities I found only give me a free Monument. How do I switch?
Google didn't help and searching here turned up squat.

[Kadrush]

i guess it is broken
i always got only free monument

[The_Pastmaster]

Unrelated: Does anyone know if one can edit a file to disable the unit auto focus? It's driving me insane.

[AtomicCaleb]

just google it. Easier than me explaining it. It's called auto unit cycle

[paugus]

There's a guide in the Guides section to disable unit auto-cycling, if that's what you're referring to. Also, when I played Rome I was too busy curbstomping the AI to check what Trajan's Column was building :D Oh well.

[Roarak]

Trajans Column builds something different depending on the era you found a city in, you don't get to choose what it builds, you just get it.

[Scout31492]

Originally posted by WTFohitsyou:

Trajans Column builds something different depending on the era you found a city in, you don't get to choose what it builds, you just get it.

In the earlier eras, its almost always a monument, though.

[SamBC]

Originally posted by WTFohitsyou:

Trajans Column builds something different depending on the era you found a city in, you don't get to choose what it builds, you just get it.

It's the start era that affects it, not the current era. It gives the cheapest city centre building that you don't get free by virtue of the era start.