Natural Wonders look awesome.

[MrBanana]

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http://well-of-souls.com/civ/civ5_terrain.html

They yield additional resurces. Probably cannot be improved, but they also give extra happiness too. So a city could "work" a natural wonder. Hope we see Niagara Falls. It should yield +4 commerce, and +2 gambling resources.

 

[imperialman]

I am quite surprised and rather happy to see the Rock of Gibraltar included.

 

[12agnar0k]

Yup their an excellent addition to the game.

 

[Churchdown Yank]

And I don't think we've seen specific evidence of many of the natural wonders yet. PC Gamer UK said the map was "littered" with them. We know the Great Barrier Reef is in but haven't seen it.

I've just got a feeling that there are many more of these in the game than we've seen so far.

 

[sumit1207]

And I don't think we've seen specific evidence of many of the natural wonders yet. PC Gamer UK said the map was "littered" with them. We know the Great Barrier Reef is in but haven't seen it.

I've just got a feeling that there are many more of these in the game than we've seen so far.

Don't get your hopes up. We know pretty much all of them. There was a list of them in a civilopedia pic. Mt. Everest wasn't on that list, so maybe there's a handful more that were added afterwards, but that's it.

Waterfalls would be far too complicated to add, considering rivers are all the same elevation, they run along the sides of tiles, etc.

 

[The_J]

Don't get your hopes up. We know pretty much all of them. There was a list of them in a civilopedia pic. Mt. Everest wasn't on that list, so maybe there's a handful more that were added afterwards, but that's it.

2 words: Preview build.

I guess, you might maybe even only see the natural wonders in the pedia, which you already have discovered.

 

[PinkHammurabi]

2 words: Preview build.

I guess, you might maybe even only see the natural wonders in the pedia, which you already have discovered.

But that same build also gave a look at the Great Wonders list which appeared 100% complete and congruent with the tech tree that we have (i.e. all were accounted for).

 

[12agnar0k]

Waterfalls would be far too complicated to add, considering rivers are all the same elevation, they run along the sides of tiles, etc.

Well thats not true, their is speculatory evidence that Mt. Everest spawns with other mountain tiles near it in a sort of mountain range, though that could of been a coinscidence, they could have a water falls hex with a river running in between it and a neighbouring hex linking the waterfall to the river, suffice to say its a complicated way of inserting wonders but plausible. I.e conditions on the map made to put the wonder in, or conditions needed to already exist on the tile before that tile is chosen for the wonder. I.e Great barrier reef and kratoa aren't choosen unless the tile they are on is in the sea, the rock of gibralta won't spawn unless the tile is on the coast (or it may spawn at sea too)

If you get my point.

 

[Elhoim]

I sure hope they add some more than the ones that were in the civilopedia... Titicaca lake and Niagara or Iguazú falls would be awesome.

 

[sumit1207]

I don't even think there should be more. They all have the same function in game anyway. Let modders run with it.

 

[Churchdown Yank]

I'll go on record right now: I'll bet my left nut that the 9 natural wonders we've got so far aren't even half the list.

 

[AriochIV]

That Civilopedia list was incomplete; it didn't have Mt. Everest or Lake Titicaca (and we've actually seen Mt. Everest in the game.) I suspect there are a lot more.

One thing I noticed about the terrain in the majority of the preview builds is that it all appears to be the same terrain set, whereas it was shown in the E3 demo that there are 4 different regional terrain sets. It's possible that the preview builds only have 1/4 of the terrain graphics, which might explain why we've seen so few natural wonders.

 

[sumit1207]

I couldn't think up of nine more.
Ayers Rock
Matterhorn
K2 (would really just look like any other mountain)
Grand Canyon (maybe they might pass on this for its lower-elevation river)

 

[Dark_Jedi06]

Indeed they do look good...however I prefer if they were named based on the civ that discovers/controls them. Mt. Fuji sitting right outside London?

 

[ukcivfan]

Natural wonders look like an really nice touch to the game. With the exception of the cities themselves and those bleeding trading posts, it looks stunning

 

[12agnar0k]

I couldn't think up of nine more.
Ayers Rock
Matterhorn
K2 (would really just look like any other mountain)
Grand Canyon (maybe they might pass on this for its lower-elevation river)

Grand Canyon would be nice, it would be impassable like mountain tiles but instead of being a mountain it would be a .... large canyon. And it could strech on for a few tiles, It would certainly be a welcome change to all the others which are above ground.

 

[Desertsnow]

I haven't kept up with how the game is being/has been developed, so this comes as a surprise to me. Natural Wonders do sound like an excellent and welcome addition to the game. They could also have economic value as well? After all, natural wonders do draw tourists.

 

[Thormodr]

I haven't kept up with how the game is being/has been developed, so this comes as a surprise to me. Natural Wonders do sound like an excellent and welcome addition to the game. They could also have economic value as well? After all, natural wonders do draw tourists.

In fact they do give an economic benefit. All natural wonders seem to give 2 production and 3 gold per turn.

Like this example for Mount Everest:

 

[12agnar0k]

2 prod and 3 gold isnt actually that great.... although its basically like having a gold resource on a hill... ish, but the main benefit, is that you get +1 happiness for learning that it exists (or being the first to discover it, one of the two.)

 

[nomooon]

well if this mt everest is sitting in the middle of a bunch of hills why would i want to found a city there cuz besides that mt everest rest of the terrain tiles are crap....