Dolmen usage

[d102_KoT]

My dolmens seem to get visited very infrequently. Does anyone else have this issue?

[nasojjr]

I never build them. Waste of prestige. Circle is 50 prestige for 6 megaliths. Menhir is 5, and Dolmen is 10...for 3 megaliths. Not worth building.

[d102_KoT]

very good point, thanks

[Nakia]

I build all of them simply because I like to. Mostly if my villagers have low morale they go to the totems and skull poles and only to the stones if built away from skull poles and totems. Unless the workload is extremely high.

[Me]

Am I missing something? They give prestige rather than cost it.

[Maehlice]

Originally posted by LeStudd:

Am I missing something? They give prestige rather than cost it.

What they means by "waste of prestige" is probably better read as "waste of a monolith", since Dolmen provides the lowest Prestige per Monolith used (3.33 per Monolith vs 5 for Menhir and 8.33 for Stone Circle).

In answer to the OP, the AI seems to prefer recovering Morale at the lowest-yield Spiritual buildings first. By the time they might get around to using Dolmen, the cooldown on the other Spiritual buildings has reset. If you work your people heavily in the fields and/or have few of the lesser Spiritual buildings, the villagers will use Dolmen more often.