There have been allot of changes in the game, and some of them made other options simply useless, either take them out or make them usefull agian i'd say.

* make another civ declare war on one of your oppononts, this is pretty much impossible, they just won't do it anymore. this options is worthless.

* buy a ship or mining resourche from the IA, the money they want for it IF they are willing to sell it is so much it will never be earned back. but most of the times they will not sell it anyway. useless option

* the all ships can survey wonder, once i can build this i am way beyond the survey phase, all the anomelies are gone than.

* 300% farm tiles, well i won't say they are 100% useless, but they come really close with the downgrading of moral. i had a hard time maintaining a good moral on 19 and 17B my last game, i had 30% moral bonus, 2 fully builded moral resourches, like 6 or 8 moral buildings (that add moral for oyur whole empire, i stole a few from the IA) and moral buildings on that planet + allot of stock markets, still i had a hard time to maintain a good moral on some of my planets.

if i think of more options that became useless i'll add them here, if you know more than plz add them here