Mountains

[Boris Gudenuf]

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Home Continent has a large inland sea - be very careful you don't build any Fishing Quays on it in Antiquity or your only Cog may appear on it with no access to the Outside Ocean at the beginning of Exploration Age!

The 'Pachacuti Start' is to the southwest of the inland sea where mountains curve around to protect the north, east, and west of a great rough/mountain position. Pach built only about 3 cities in the area in Antiquity, and then exploded in Exploration onto the islands off shore.

The only real problem with the map is that the islands between the home and distant lands continents have very few Treasure Resources, so getting the Economic Golden Age will require some work: it took me right to the end of the Age to get my 30 Treasure Points, and 2 of my 3 Resource Settlements were on the Distant Lands continent, not the islands.

 

[sixty4half]

I also got one with mt everest - had anyone else noticed that when you find everest it shows you all the other mountains on the map?

Yes, that's what it's supposed to do. It really helps you find all the other civs as their borders are probably on at least 1 mountain.

 

[Sagax]

Yes, that's what it's supposed to do. It really helps you find all the other civs as their borders are probably on at least 1 mountain.

At the same time, beware: it looks like any mountainous Natural Wonders discovered this way do not trigger Isabella’s ability. Most likely a bug/oversight.

 

[chazzycat]

I got to play Nepal in the modern age of my latest Inca game. I gotta say...what a strange design decision on the unique improvement. I only got to build ONE of them in a large empire with tons of mountains. Who thought it was a good idea to require unclaimed tiles in the modern age? There just aren't any left at that point.

They are still pretty good, they get solid yields on mountains even without the improvement. It's just a very odd design.

Also, sherpas can't walk on Mount Everest. That seems like a miss

 

[Kwami]

I got to play Nepal in the modern age of my latest Inca game. I gotta say...what a strange design decision on the unique improvement. I only got to build ONE of them in a large empire with tons of mountains. Who thought it was a good idea to require unclaimed tiles in the modern age? There just aren't any left at that point.

They are still pretty good, they get solid yields on mountains even without the improvement. It's just a very odd design.

Also, sherpas can't walk on Mount Everest. That seems like a miss

Yeah. Both the unique tile improvement and the unique civilian unit are all about these mountain power stations. That's a lot of the civilization used up for something that almost doesn't exist.

 

[Rob Airdrie]

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Thank you

 

[Kwami]

I watched a video that claimed the original design allowed power stations on all mountains, but then it was changed because it was too powerful. Maybe so!

Perhaps a better change would be something like, "only works on tiles at least three and no more than five tiles from the city center"? It would still work on already claimed tiles in the third ring that way.

Or, "can't be built adjacent to another power station". Some other improvements already do that, so the logic is already available.

 

[chazzycat]

I watched a video that claimed the original design allowed power stations on all mountains, but then it was changed because it was too powerful. Maybe so!

Perhaps a better change would be something like, "only works on tiles at least three and no more than five tiles from the city center"? It would still work on already claimed tiles in the third ring that way.

Or, "can't be built adjacent to another power station". Some other improvements already do that, so the logic is already available.

yeah, this seems to be the case. I saw some reddit threads talking about the same. I totally agree that would be too strong to put them everywhere, but the current state is too extreme in the other direction.

 

[Lazy sweeper]

Inca and Tibet, Nepal, Swiss, should be able to move all units on mountains, and most important of all, found city centres on them!
Only Civ 3 had a mod in which you could build cities on mountains.
It is just superfun to have cities in the middle of a Mountain range, with maybe just one accessible hill tile with some goats or lamas...
It is one of those requests that has been going on for ages...

 

[Vandlys]

Inca and Tibet, Nepal, Swiss, should be able to move all units on mountains, and most important of all, found city centres on them!
Only Civ 3 had a mod in which you could build cities on mountains.
It is just superfun to have cities in the middle of a Mountain range, with maybe just one accessible hill tile with some goats or lamas...
It is one of those requests that has been going on for ages...

Does Switzerland have cities built on mountains?

 

[Lazy sweeper]

Does Switzerland have cities built on mountains?

It depends, if you consider Switzerland all the Alps, stretching from Monaco to Bozen, then yes, and it also has a nice view over the Mediterrenean sea...

Italy has numerous walled cities coming from pre / Etruscan times, that lasted untill late medieval times and the Church reform. This is when most of these Towns have been desacrated, all people burned o stakes, and then some more gruel stuff...
San Marino is one of those Walled towns that resisted the Church massacres, but the Old Papal State lands are full of scheletrons of these ghost towns sat on top of peaks. in most of these places today nature has taken over. You just don't see them. Look for the ancient city of Rama, north-west Italy near France-Swiss border.
Swiss of course had other towns, not so big as Rama, that indeed was a city. It is thought it hosted a population of 100k people at least.
All Megalithic walls and sacred stones circles are spread all over the place as it was guarding the best Alpine pass from Italy to France-Switzerland.
Today Claviere is in France and it's a Sky resort town if you will... back then it was something else... it was part of Rama...
Aosta is in Italy but was considering becoming French or Swiss after WWII. It is on the mountain pass, not exactly on top of a mountain.
There is not so much need today for such fortified living, but I guess some old towns-castles has been converted into something more useful like a Museum like that of Messner. In Austerrich-Switzerland. Sorry for the punctuation.

But yeah, today basically all of the Sky-towns all throughout the Alps arc are basically sat on top of some mountain, and are big enough to be considered cities in some cases.

Zurich is only 408mt over the Sea level, it's on the bottom of the big valley that formed the lake there. Not the best candidate for a city on a mountain. By modern standards it does not have many...
Cuzco is 3.399mt over sea level... There is not much to debate on the Inca at least... we can all agree they check all flags..!

Some unaccesible Island mountains could be settled with modern settlers launched from a military plane...
Of course this means Sea and Air vessels serves for something, and settlers do not walk on the waters...
but would need probably an Air carrier with an helicopter at least...

 

[Lonecat Nekophrodite]

Should mountains accept cityscapes now? (with construction penalty to takes longer to complete)