Machu Pichu prevents Observatory?

[Chong Warrior]

Currently playing a game and I puporsely built a city on a river next to a mountain to be my main science city, also has a 2nd mountain behind it within 2 tiles.

I built Machu Pichu in this city and it built it on the mountain closest to city but now I cannot build an Observatory!

Is this normal or a bug?

 

[Koiranputki]

Currently playing a game and I puporsely built a city on a river next to a mountain to be my main science city, also has a 2nd mountain behind it within 2 tiles.

I built Machu Pichu in this city and it built it on the mountain closest to city but now I cannot build an Observatory!

Is this normal or a bug?

That looks like a fine city....usually I have to settle for far worse a location than that when I found a "Machu Picchu" city.. But to your point...in my current game I founded a Machu Picchu city on the coast, right next to a mountain and a river, and on a hill.... I "rush-built" Machu Picchu with an engineer and was also able, a little later, to build an observatory.... So I can't figure out why you can't...from your screen shot I can see that you obviously have the Astronomy technology... Hmmmm..I'm trying to remember if you have to build something else first...library, university..??...but I can't really remember...I don't think so.

The only "hiccup" I noticed (...with my current Machu Picchu, that is)...is that I can't actually see the Machu Picchu icon, although the city screen says it is there. ...Maybe something to to do with the "rush-build"...???...

 

[FeiLing]

You probably already build/bought it and forgot about it?

 

[Tabarnak]

Is this normal or a bug?

I managed to build both in my last game. It's a bug if i presume that you verified everything before posting this.

 

[NotSure]

I just did it last night. Sounds like a problem with your game. The only other thing I can think of is the build queue. If you used the queue, closed your game and came back to it later, then you wouldn't see the observatory available to build, and the project would be buried in the closed queue.

 

[Louis8k8]

It's a bug I believe. I've had it before when I'm directly adjacent to a mountain. But I don't know if it has anything to do with machu pichu, I just never got the option to build observatory after I unlocked the research. There might be some underlying requirements the programmers screwed up on.

My latest G+K Emperor game allowed me to build both however.

 

[Chong Warrior]

Nope the observatory has definitely never appeared as an option to build it. So much so that I completely forgot about it until the option popped up in a new city I had built!

It's as if the Machu Picchu wonder has taken over the mountain and thus removed the option of being able to build the observatory. Which is annoying as that was the reason I built that city in the first place and it was a real battle to initially win it from Alex. It was my 2nd city and I had to settle a few squares further away than I'd have liked but thought the position was worth the risk... then I get robbed anyway...

 

[Koiranputki]

Nope the observatory has definitely never appeared as an option to build it. So much so that I completely forgot about it until the option popped up in a new city I had built!

It's as if the Machu Picchu wonder has taken over the mountain and thus removed the option of being able to build the observatory. Which is annoying as that was the reason I built that city in the first place and it was a real battle to initially win it from Alex. It was my 2nd city and I had to settle a few squares further away than I'd have liked but thought the position was worth the risk... then I get robbed anyway...

Hmmmm...that is frustrating...I know you have to be right next to the mountain for the Observatory, and that Machu Picchu has to be built WITHIN two hexes of a mountain, (...which I assume means you can kind of be half a hex away, if that makes any sense) ... but you seem to have met all of this criteria.

Personally, I've never had this happen to me, but I'll watch closely from now on to see if there are any "wrinkles" to it all...

Maybe you could post this in the Civ 5 - Bugs forum....

Oh...another thought I just had... I think in my last game, I had two close mountains....maybe you DO need a separate mountain for the Observatory...???...I don't know...but in a way, that might make sense...

 

[FeiLing]

Another theory: Sometimes you see mountains, but the tile actually is considered a flat tile like grassland or plains or vice versa (graphical bug). If you hover over the machu pichu "mountain tile" adjacent to the city, does it still say it actually is a mountain tile?
(or just look in the cty what that tile produces when it's being worked on (which it even can't if it's really a mountain tile)