[GS] New Natural Wonders in Gathering Storm

[Wielki Hegemon]

Indonesia is full of famous volcanoes. They will probably be revamped somehow. Those two are coming to mind.
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[Zaarin]

Yellowstone is overrated. There are literally 50 other volcanoes i prefer over Yellowstone to make it into the game. It just has it's status because it's capable of VEI-8 eruptions and because it's in America.
It also couldn't serve as some kind of landmark, cause it's a large landmass, with a lake, with bosses and all on it. Only Old Faithful would be possible to have as a wonder, but Yellowstone just wouldn't work.

Old Faithful or Grand Prismatic Springs would be acceptable, but Yellowstone as a whole is my least favorite US park I've been to.

I did not realize Terok Nor was in the Eastern U.S. And the Eastern U.S. is quite beautiful, and I say this as someone born in the Western U.S. Though some areas are better than others. Like say the hills of New Hampshire in autumn...At least you have some hills to break up the monotony.

I don't have any hills to break up the monotony. I live in Florida, which is so flat we name our speedbumps. But yes, the pictures I've seen of New England are quite lovely (I've never been further north than southern New York), if not really majestic. However, the highest peak in the East is ~6,000 feet, which I don't even consider a mountain, and we lack the beautiful evergreen forests like you have out west. Also I was born in Arizona, so I absolutely love the desert (even though ironically I hate both the heat and the sun--but what I mean is that, like snow, it's beautiful to look at IMO). Plus the entire Southeast is extremely, extremely ugly. Let's just say I live in the soul-crushing East unwillingly.

Cape Cod

That's actually not a bad option.

Honestly what if you were able to find Mt. Rushmore in the game and later on you would have the ability to carve in the heads.

Special ability: instantly take -50 diplomatic penalty with the Cree.

 

[NukeAJS]

One Natural Wonder that would fit this expansion is Yellowstone. It could have some good bonuses, but also have a small possibility to erupt and, aside the destruction of everything in 3/4 tiles, make the entire World Climate worse. It could be too much destruction for some players, but I would like to see something unique like this.

Super volcanoes would be really neat. There oughta be an option to turn off their erupting though. One going off in the ancient era would certainly be interesting, but I could easily see how some players wouldn't want a full-blown crisis happening in the early game or at all for the matter.

 

[Zaarin]

Super volcanoes would be really neat. There oughta be an option to turn off their erupting though. One going off in the ancient era would certainly be interesting, but I could easily see how some players wouldn't want a full-blown crisis happening in the early game or at all for the matter.

I'm not sure an extinction event would be fun at any point in the game...

 

[NukeAJS]

Plus the entire Southeast is extremely, extremely ugly. Let's just say I live in the soul-crushing East unwillingly.

I generally agree with you except that the Smoky Mountains are gorgeous. Parts of the Mississippi Delta are mystifying. Also, while not necessarily beautiful, The Everglades are extremely important and ecologically unique.

I suppose that the problem with the Smokies is that there isn't a single place in them that stands above the rest. I suppose they could have a small, two-tile mountain range or even just a single tile that is not a mountain but a mini-mountain range.

A river delta like the Mississippi, Nile, or Amazon could fit quite well into the game given its ecological bent. An obvious problem I foresee is that all three of those rivers are clearly "claimed" by a civ due to the natural feature naming system. It'd be odd to be playing as Russia, have the Danube river next to you but when you find the delta it's called the "Mississippi River Delta."

That being said, I guess this problem exists for all natural wonders and civs. Unless a certain natural wonder spawning in a civ was always the same. So if Australia RNGed a natural wonder, it would automatically get the Great Barrier Reef. That seems like a terrible idea to me though because it gets rid of some amount of randomness and has balance issues because not all natural wonders are created equal.

 

[Trav'ling Canuck]

Honestly what if you were able to find Mt. Rushmore in the game and later on you would have the ability to carve in the heads.
That would be pretty cool.

Who would you carve in? Your own head four times???

 

[shaglio]

If it hadn’t fallen down, I’d have considered The Old Man of the Mountain, or Mount Washington which has had some of the highest wind speeds recorded on earth

 

[Sostratus]

Honestly what if you were able to find Mt. Rushmore in the game and later on you would have the ability to carve in the heads.
That would be pretty cool.

As someone from a neighboring state, Mt Rushmore is actually right next to Badlands national park, which is kind of neat looking:

Spoiler :

Glaciers. They'll get ya.

A semi natural wonder as well from the midwest would be one of the Great lakes. They are huge freshwater lakes, and maybe Lake Superior has a good enough shape to make workable as a wonder. But the western US has the best natural wonder candidates.
I really liked having lake victoria in BNW, it was fun having a "super lake" wonder. Victoria falls could be neatly depicted on a tile too.

I think the Pamukkale, if i understand the screenshots well, is a pretty brilliant NW idea: it gives major adjacency to any districts you build next to it, instead of giving a tile yield. I do wish that they would give some of the NW's that you work directly +2 food though so they were sustainable. Pantanal really sucks because its a no growth tile. At least let me have 3 food.

 

[Alexander's Hetaroi]

Who would you carve in? Your own head four times???

Well I could definitely see Alexander doing that.
Four Gandhis would look really terrifying.

 

[bite]

Besides adding Vesuvius, I don't think we will get a lot more volcanoes because there are already a lot of them in the game that the dev's said they have incorporated into the new mechanics

 

[Zaarin]

there are already a lot of them in the game

Hmm, with Vesuvius we'll only have three: Vesuvius, Kilimanjaro, and Eyjafjallajökull. That's comparable to the number of lake natural wonders we have and two fewer than the number of non-volcanic mountains (I'm counting Uluru and Yosemite here).

 

[bite]

Hmm, with Vesuvius we'll only have three: Vesuvius, Kilimanjaro, and Eyjafjallajökull. That's comparable to the number of lake natural wonders we have and two fewer than the number of non-volcanic mountains (I'm counting Uluru and Yosemite here).

i could see Mt Fuji or another being added in, but I think we will see more of other types of wonders because they will want to get most of the volcanoes unnamed due to the new geographic labeling mechanic

 

[kryat]

I'm not sure an extinction event would be fun at any point in the game...

I think Yellowstone Caldera could work as a 7 tile wonder if it was guaranteed to start far away from a starting position. And it were to have an extremely low likelihood of erupting in any given game, like only 1/10 games it actually erupts, but it levels a continent if it does go off. But it could also spread that fertile volcanic ash over the whole thing too. Maybe it would be better as a scenario though... the game turns into Mad Max after

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Mt. Fuji would be on Japan's volcano list if it isn't a natural wonder.

 

[Xefjord]

I am really hoping Mt Fuji gets added as a special volcano. Japan just feels a little underpowered on its island as is so I use Sukritacts Mt Fuji mod to give them a bit of a boost, but who knows if Firaxis see's it as important

 

[kryat]

I’m hoping Hawai’i (the big island) gets added as a natural wonder. It could be an interesting mechanic as a wonder that slowly adds land over the course of the game.

If they add another volcano though, I’m betting it will be Krakatoa.

 

[God of Kings]

Since the topic of the topic is environmental sustainability, perhaps the Cheltenham Badlands could be a natural wonder if a farm that was formerly a forest gets destroyed by drought:

It's near Toronto.

 

[WillowBrook]

Just because it's rather empty I'd like to see something from eastern North America, but as a resident there I can confirm that the entire US east of the Rockies is ugly. (Actually, New England is rather pretty, but probably not "natural wonder" pretty.) Best I can think of is Everglades (meh). Maybe eastern Canada has some better options?

Hey - my native Pennsylvania is beautiful! But I agree it's difficult to point to specific natural wonders in the eastern U.S. As someone else mentioned, Niagara Falls would work. Places like Acadia are gorgeous, but more like landscapes than natural structures that could be represented on a map.

 

[God of Kings]

How about Ontario's Agawa Canyon? It's really popular and beautiful during the autumn.

 

[Trav'ling Canuck]

How about Ontario's Agawa Canyon? It's really popular and beautiful during the autumn.

Canyons are a graphics problem. Hence no Grand Canyon.