Does Lake Victoria counts as a lake?

[ggmoyang]

i. e. can build floating gardens or provide fresh water to adjacent tiles?
Or does it counts as a mountain like other natural wonders?

 

[pkf]

it counts as source of fresh water. pretty sure the game considers it to be a lake.

 

[digrosz]

When building gardens etc. it counts as a lake, but surprisingly units cannot embark into it.

 

[ggmoyang]

Thanks for the answers.

 

[MrMT]

I do know that mt Fuji doesn't count as a mountain...

 

[JanghanHong]

All Natural wonders are considered mountains for the purpose of being able to be seen from 4 tiles away. Lake Victoria has a freshwater source tag. None of the wonders are considered mountains for the purpose of Machu or the Disney Castle as the graphic cannot be changed for those wonders.

 

[CoolLizy]

As far as I know, they do count as mountains for building an observatory, just not for any of the wonders.

 

[PrimoXanthous]

i. e. can build floating gardens or provide fresh water to adjacent tiles?
Or does it counts as a mountain like other natural wonders?

actually not, in the in-game it counted as mountain
reason:
1. when im playing as France i got a , Assyria is my neighbor he had Lake Victoria inside his border adjacent to one of its cities (Nimrud as i remember i think) between a two mountain then he start building the wonder Machu Pichu, then suddenly the machu pichu terrain art shows inside the Lake Victoria, which should spawn be either the two mountains. I think its a bug.
2. in my second game Playing as Indonesia i got lake victoria near my 3rd city and it has a adjacent hill tile. When i try to make a farmon that hill tile, i cant (every hill adjacent to lake, oasis and river ,Farm could be buildable.)

 

[God of Kings]

Montezuma is unhappy that Lake Victoria is not a lake.

 

[OmniPotent42]

For wonders and buildings (maybe not observatories) you MUST have a mountain (non-wonder) but the actual graphic for the wonder can be built on most natural wonders as well.

 

[Martock]

Actually, I've had Machu Pachu show up being built on a NUMBER of natural wonders. Most recently, King Solomon's Mines. My favorite is when it shows up being built inside The Barringer Crater.

 

[GeoModder]

Actually, I've had Machu Pachu show up being built on a NUMBER of natural wonders. Most recently, King Solomon's Mines. My favorite is when it shows up being built inside The Barringer Crater.

This. I even uploaded a screenshot for the Barringer Picchu (or was it the Machu Crater ?).

 

[pintocat]

Is it actually fresh water for adjacent tiles? I moused over some tiles next to it and they didn't show the "fresh water" thing on the tooltip

 

[Miravlix]

The wonders used to be bugged so you could build machu pichu on them, but that was fixed in a patch a long time ago. Ick. not that it has anything to do with the lake.

 

[Sayounara]

It didn't provide a fresh water bonus last time I played it. I was surprised

 

[liltrogdor]

I do know that mt Fuji doesn't count as a mountain...

I once built Machu Piccu on Fuji, but that was in Vanilla IDK if they've changed it.

 

[ferretbacon]

Machu Picchu on Old Faithful is good too. Geyser Picchu!

 

[Martock]

The wonders used to be bugged so you could build machu pichu on them, but that was fixed in a patch a long time ago. Ick. not that it has anything to do with the lake.

It "was" fixed. It isn't anymore. Machu Picchu fits rather nicely into King Solomon's Mines.

 

[Kwami]

It didn't provide a fresh water bonus last time I played it. I was surprised

Yeah, the grass tiles next to Lake Victoria aren't showing the "Fresh Water" label in my current game.

 

[ahawk]

Lake Victoria not counting for Floating Gardens = bad for Montezuma

but...

Lake Victoria giving +12 to Spain = bad for everyone