Are all NW equally random?

El Caballerion

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Basic question... Are some Natural Wonders more frequent than others? For instance, I always feel like 9 times out of 10, my map will have Barringer Crater. However, only 1 out of every 20 games will have the Fountain of Youth.

How often do specific wonders occur?

And also, why the heck isn't the GRAND CANYON a NW!?

 

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Scott Jegg

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They all have different ratings for likelihood of appearing. I'm sure someone else can post the figures.

I think FoY and El Dorada are rarest.

 

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Grand Mesa is worse than a regular tile to me

 

El Caballerion

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German Badger is right. Grand Mesa sucks.

 

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Lord Alexander

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El Caballerion said:

Basic question... Are some Natural Wonders more frequent than others? For instance, I always feel like 9 times out of 10, my map will have Barringer Crater. However, only 1 out of every 20 games will have the Fountain of Youth.

How often do specific wonders occur?

And also, why the heck isn't the GRAND CANYON a NW!?

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There is a fountain of youth ? Oh my I never seen it and I been playing for a few months now I also never had the Aztecs as a AI civ so.....

 

Louis XXIV

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The Fountain of Youth is extremely rare (you may search many games and probably will never find it). I think I've only seen it three or four times. However, if you do find it, it's great to settle.

 

joncnunn

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• Aug 16, 2013

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Fountain of Youth is the rarest of them all.
Second rarest is El Dorado. (If you're first to discover it, you also get more than enough cash to buy a settler for it)

Most of the other national wonders have the same probability.

 

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PhilBowles

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DeutschDachs said:

Grand Mesa is worse than a regular tile to me

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In general, but don't forget it can now get large boosts from One With Nature and Natural Heritage Sites.

 

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arand86

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I was lucky enough to find fountain of youth on turn 5 on a Mongol pangea map

 

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Lord Alexander

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arand86 said:

I was lucky enough to find fountain of youth on turn 5 on a Mongol pangea map

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Yeah looked up its bonuses I really wish I had it near my capital in my last domination game I played being the Aztecs.