Petra is really cool.
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S.K. Ren
Prince
I'm currently trying to roll a Netherlands start along a Desert River. No luck yet but I Keep trying.
Bandersnatching
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Yeah, Petra was the new wonder that I wanted to build the most, once I saw it was in the expansion. It can rock pretty hard, too - I have a game where a city that has access to two desert stones and two desert/hill/sheep built Petra, and is now rocking the crap out of that location. Also, with it you can build farms on desert tiles, yielding 2 food, 1 production, and 1 gold pre-fertilizer. It can turn a suboptimal location into a fantastic one.
Trying this too, but with Arabia.
They always have desert around them. But first I have to test all the new civs...And while Songhai always been my fav civ, with Arabia as runner up, this wonder might change my preference.
CommanderZ
Warlord
Did they improve GP improvements? In vanilla those were almost never worth sacrificing the one time boost (or GA).
Yh it rocks. I was on an Earth map with Byzantine and started in West Africa then placed Adrianople on the nile. I was 5 turns off getting it then Boudica completed it. It would have just given me so much as well! is about to get invaded soon though, then we'll see who is laughing.
PhilBowles
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I built Petra while having Desert Folklore and a desert capital - it worked pretty well.
And Petra is not a hard wonder to build even on Emperor; perhaps the AI doesn't often spawn in desert, but it doesn't seem to prioritise this Wonder.
As one of my favourite real-world sites, I'm glad it's a decent Wonder rather than something like the mediocre bonus of the Terracotta Army.
Make sure to invade it with a landship...
Sidenote, the quote is incorrectly attributed - it's from the knight character as I recall, not Indy...
It's pretty decent. I like how it can turn useless tiles into really good ones.
This is what I like about Gods and Kings, it seems to level the playing field, because even if you get a crappy start you can find a way to turn it around if you play your cards right.
This is what I like about Gods and Kings, it seems to level the playing field, because even if you get a crappy start you can find a way to turn it around if you play your cards right.
Given that they can't all chug out a Golden Age anymore...yeah, it was really worth it. Three Great Engineers, one (early) Great Scientist, one Great Prophet and one Great Artist went into being tile improvements. Combined with Petra, those deserts became simply amazing to abuse.
I just kinda wish Petra was JUUUUST a bit earlier in the tech tree.
It's definitely a powerful wonder. I built in my fourth city with a GE, who dropped the build times from 70 turns to 1 turn lol, and it turned from one of my worst cities, I was only planning on using it to get the 2 luxuries, into my fastest growing city,
Yeah, the bonuses apply to mountain tiles if they're on desert.
Finally managed to beat the AI to Petra in what was originally going to be a military production city nestled amongst a bunch of hills. By the modern era that city was barely behind my capital in production thanks to 2 mountain, 3 desert hills, and a desert tile with aluminum all netting the Petra bonuses...if I'd managed to get the Hanging Gardens in there too it would probably have been stronger than the capital.
ggmoyang
Emperor
Best Petra city ever? (check screenshot)
3 desert hill sheeps
7 desert hills w/ fresh water (6 of them are riverside)
1 desert hill silver
1 desert hill marble
4 desert hills
1 desert aluminium
Mt. Sinai
3 desert hill sheeps
7 desert hills w/ fresh water (6 of them are riverside)
1 desert hill silver
1 desert hill marble
4 desert hills
1 desert aluminium
Mt. Sinai
Try Sandstorm map, it gives really good chance.
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Snownova
Warlord
Do keep trying, I've played 2 games as Netherlands with a flood plains start and it. is. awesome! Especially if you can get desert folklore of course, but even without, polders are so incredible on flood plains.
Smokeybear
Emperor
Screenshot from my current game, nice spot for a Petra city- kinda light on bonus resources, just two sheep, one iron, one stone and some fish... but ya gotta love all them orange anvils
Early times yet, only 1600's, just building factory... can't wait till modern era with hydro plant and solar power, etc.
Petra Egypt
Early times yet, only 1600's, just building factory... can't wait till modern era with hydro plant and solar power, etc.
Petra Egypt
