Mountains

[Robespierre]

Anyone else think the mountains in civ3 look kind of weird? I mean, they're all a bunch of separate plateaus not connected into a real mountain range at all, more like something that you would see in the middle of Australia or New Mexico and not at all like the Carpathians or Himalayas. I personally would rather they were less "red desert plateau" and more "purple mountain majesty"-like, and connected to form real mountain chains instead of individual blocks of stone.

 

[greenie]

I must admit, for the moment, the hills and mountains in Civ2 do look better than what we've seen so far for Civ3.

To me, moutains aren't green. Mountains made of stone with snow capped peaks would please me to no end.

 

[Robespierre]

Yeah, stone and snow is like what I was thinking. They seem to have changed from jagged hills to desert plateaus. Firaxis should get it right - grass-covered hills and passable formations never stopped an advancing army.

Also, I heard somewhere that you will no longer be able to build cities in the mountains. What about the early Catholic Civilizations of northern spain then? Or Tibet? How do you explain that if there are no more cities in mountains?

 

[Morten Blaabjerg]

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1997