It would be not so great from gameplay perspective as you have specific requirements for wonders, etc.
True, though I'm not imagining such big stretches that it'd become any more difficult to find spots for certain wonders than it currently is.
It would still change the game a lot as you could create identical rural districts on those spots, thus gaining maximum efficiency from warehouse buildings and, potentially, limiting strategic choices.
That depends on how far you would have to move... also it could be predominant. not total
I imagine quite boring ultra-specialized towns here, like if the territory is almost completely flat, just build a granary and cover everything with farms.
Well presumably there are also resources and not Pure flat.
They don't change the general approach - you cover with farms everything except resources, which you improve.
Well if there are 5 Vegetated, 5 rough, 5 Wet and 22 Flat (ignoring Resources) you go for that spot because you want Farms... but you can make it a mining town if you need to (still 10 Prod tiles)
Well, it's doesn't remove choice completely, but clearly limit it very much. I imagine in all real world games specialization of such towns will be no-brainer.
Personally my current strategy is to ultra-specialise towns - find an area thats fairly flat, then cover everything in farms, snaking around non-flat tiles, with buildings going on top of the vegetated/rough tiles.
So far I haven't settled on my strategy and I often respecialize towns with ages and evolve some of them to cities. Current maps look like leaving more space for those variations.
Well ideally there would be
Probably something like this should work. Sure, there could be some really bad starts due to low food, but if those map options will be available for imbalanced (single-player focused) maps only, that's ok for me.
And low food wouldn't be too bad of a start because you can increase "pop" by building buildings... then produce a settler and get a town in a nearby good food spot to feed your production powerhouse.
I'm speaking about start, where you need population of 5 to produce your first settler and the only building available is Granary. Not having food tiles nearby could delay expansion.
Well that specifically only applies to the start location, which has its own terrain rules.
