Magellans Voyage was the first voyage around the world. In civ3 you can get it without ever building a ship.

There is no race around the world, or proving that it is round.

What if magellans voyage was actually the first voyage around the world in civ? The first ship to have traveled to a tile in every column on the map.

I would enjoy trying to go around the world first. Once your ship has been around the world, it says "rename victorius unit?" with the default name as Magellan. Then your civ has the benefits of Magellans Voyage :)

Well, the wonder in Civ3 assumes that you do it that way, without actually taking a ship around the world. Accurate? Probably not. But hey, it's just a game. But to make it realisitic, you should at least be able to see the coastlines of a decent portion of the map for completing this wonder.

However, you've got a good idea. Certain benefits for being the first to do this, the first to do that. First coast to coast civ (over a certain percentage), first to circumnavigate the globe, first to reach another continent.... that could work.

I actually named my great exploring galley the Magellan. ;)

Didn't something like this exist i Civ I or II. I have a faint memory of receiving a message after being the first one to sail around the world.
Anyway I like the idea of receiving some sort of bonus for being the first civ to accomplish something.

Didn't something like this exist i Civ I or II. I have a faint memory of receiving a message after being the first one to sail around the world.
Anyway I like the idea of receiving some sort of bonus for being the first civ to accomplish something.

Yes, in addition to the Idea of Scientific wonders floating arround, why not have wonders that are gained through some great accomplishment? A voyage arround the world would just be the start, other wonders could be linked to actions in game. Only other example I can think of now is having Suffrage triggered by something like WLTKD in every city at once in a democracy (with a minimum # of cities of course)

This is a feature of Call to Power (II). Hey, really, to all the Call to Power-haters in here, that was really a good thing :) I would really like to "re"-introduce this concept of Masterpieces. In Call to Power they had: "First to travel around the world" (+ship movement), "first to discover xy (beton: more productivity, "the saltpeter-tech": the other city walls are inefficient against you, etc. etc.). You could add many things like this in civ4 (first to connect x cities, first to build an oversea colony, first to have x buildings (libraries, temples, banks, etc.).

What should be taken care of: The best and first shouldn't get a boost. So I dislike these masterpieces and its bonusses triggered by a tech or other thing that show their superiority (x wins in battles, etc).

mfG mitsho

This is a feature of Call to Power (II). Hey, really, to all the Call to Power-haters in here, that was really a good thing :) I would really like to "re"-introduce this concept of Masterpieces. In Call to Power they had: "First to travel around the world" (+ship movement), "first to discover xy (beton: more productivity, "the saltpeter-tech": the other city walls are inefficient against you, etc. etc.). You could add many things like this in civ4 (first to connect x cities, first to build an oversea colony, first to have x buildings (libraries, temples, banks, etc.).

What should be taken care of: The best and first shouldn't get a boost. So I dislike these masterpieces and its bonusses triggered by a tech or other thing that show their superiority (x wins in battles, etc).

mfG mitsho

I agree! This was one of the good CTP2 aspects!