Other natural wonders in North America?

[abandag]

There's Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. Don't know which graphic you'd want to use for that though.

 

[JanghanHong]

Thanks guys, I think I'm set on most of them.

I changed my mind about Thousand Island being the reefs and the Everglades being the Fountain of Youth, having the reefs touch land screws up the graphics and makes lake Ontario non-navigaeable, which is a big no.

So:

Unchanged (As they are):

Old Faithful, Wyoming
Barringer Crater, Arizona
The Grand Mesa, Colorado

The Re-purposed wonders:

Mount Sinai, >>> Shiprock, New Mexico Thanks!

Uluru >>> The Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick/Nova Scotia

Fountain of Youth >>> Niagara Falls, New York/Ontario Thanks!

Mt. Kailash >>> Mt. Edith Cavell, Alberta Thanks!

Krakatoa >>> Mauna Kea, Hawaii, Thanks!

The Great Barrier Reef >>> Key West, Florida

The Rock of Gibraltar >>> The Alcatraz Island, California This was a hard one, the NW has to be placed on a coast, and there were other places it should have gone, but the function of Alcatraz was the most like the actual rock of Gibraltar...

If I find out how to place it inland, then: Pena de Bernal (Bernal Rock), Queretaro

Cerro de Potoshi >>> Cueva de los Cristales (Cave of Crystals), Chihuahua

Sri Pada >>> Cañón del Sumidero (Sumidero Canyon), Chiapas

Mt. Fuji >>> Pico de Orizaba, (Orizaba Peak)/Citlaltépetl, (Star Mountain), Veracruz/Puebla, The third highest mountain in North America after McKinley and Logan of Alaska/Yukon, but the highest mountain on this map, since the map cuts off at Edmonton, Canada in the north.

 

[JanghanHong]

Mexico is played by Spain on the map, and Mexico city starts with Pico de Orizoba on its 3rd ring. And if they reclaim all the land of the old Mexico territories plus Cuba (which can claim Key West) they can literally have 7 cities of gold (Natural wonders).

 

[fuzzatron717]

Thanks for using my mount edith cavell idea it is really beautiful ever come to jasper go there. at the foot of the mountain there is a cave under the waterfall that is all ice it is beautiful.

 

[Dunkah]

Alcatraz a Natural wonder???

How about the old man of the mountains in New hampshire? Or Indian Head? Both natural Wonders.

 

[shaglio]

It's too bad you already made your decisions. I would have suggested you use Ulura as Devil's Tower in Wyoming. And if you want one on the east coast/Appalachians, you could use one of the other mountians as Mt. Washington in New Hampshire (home to some of the strongest recorded winds on earth).

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Holy mountains:
Denali
Man Mountain colorado
Lookout Mountain
Pikes peak

Mt Fuji could be Grand Tetons

Uluru could be the Black Hills or the badlands

 

[JanghanHong]

Alcatraz a Natural wonder???

How about the old man of the mountains in New hampshire? Or Indian Head? Both natural Wonders.

I'm still not set about Gibraltar, but I can't think of any other iconic rock that juts out into the sea, the graphics gets screwed up if you place it inland. The Rock of Gibraltar and the Alcatraz island solved a somewhat similar purpose, so I put it there.

Ulura as Devil's Tower in Wyoming. And if you want one on the east coast/Appalachians, you could use one of the other mountians as Mt. Washington in New Hampshire (home to some of the strongest recorded winds on earth).

Wyoming already has Old Faithful, but I could see it working as the Devil's tower, although the nearbuy Badlands fit the graphics better.

Also, I am thoroughly unimpressed with the Appalachian mountains now I've seen many photos of them. Especially with the fact the highest one is like, 1700m high, I seriously did not know that. Size does matter.

Holy mountains:
Denali
Man Mountain colorado
Lookout Mountain
Pikes peak

Mt Fuji could be Grand Tetons

I would have definitely put Denali (Mt. McKinley) in except the map doesn't go that north, and the rest are too close or in the same state as Old Faithful and the Grand Mesa.

 

[Pouakai]

What about the Devil's Tower?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_Tower

 

[JanghanHong]

 

[Seabastian Civ]

Sick map!!! Well done.

PS who knew Canada would colonize the West Indies

 

[ThisNameIsTooLo]

...and There's no suitable graphics.

It's because Natural Wonders are not designed to span more than one tile. The Great Barrier Reef, with its entire span registering as multiple wonders instead of one, is proof of that. Waterfalls, belonging on rivers as they do, would suffer the same problem, since they would necessarily require two tiles to form; one for each side of the river.

The other thing is that meters-above-sea-level is not simulated in the game (beyond map generation). If it were, then graphically, it would be possible to raise tiles above the base plane, making high altitude regions actually appear higher than the lower regions surrounding them, and so on. Without that level of sophistication, it is impossible to make waterfalls look anything other than awkward; inexplicably sloping upward, only to drop back down to the same altitude it was at before.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

I'm still not set about Gibraltar, but I can't think of any other iconic rock that juts out into the sea, the graphics gets screwed up if you place it inland. The Rock of Gibraltar and the Alcatraz island solved a somewhat similar purpose, so I put it there.





Wyoming already has Old Faithful, but I could see it working as the Devil's tower, although the nearbuy Badlands fit the graphics better.

Also, I am thoroughly unimpressed with the Appalachian mountains now I've seen many photos of them. Especially with the fact the highest one is like, 1700m high, I seriously did not know that. Size does matter.



I would have definitely put Denali (Mt. McKinley) in except the map doesn't go that north, and the rest are too close or in the same state as Old Faithful and the Grand Mesa.

Lookout Mountain is in Tennessee/Georgia. It was a Native American holy site and then a civil war battlefield. Later it became a premier Confederate Memorial. Sure, it's not a physically impressive place, but it does have spiritual meaning to a lot of people and supposedly you can see seven states from there.

 

[Deaths Advocate]

Grand Canyon?

 

[ianstewart]

Arkansas has north america's only working diamond mind, could be a nice Mt. Potosi.

Untrue. There are several diamond mines in northern Canada.

 

[mintcandy]

Really large image of the United States here

Um, Springfield, Oregon? Why would one choose Springfield over the nearby and more prominent Eugene?

 

[JanghanHong]

Um, Springfield, Oregon? Why would one choose Springfield over the nearby and more prominent Eugene?

It was a reference for The Simpson's

 

[Deaths Advocate]

Worthy then ?

 

[frnknbry]

Would we be down load it if so where?

 

[Slowpoked]

I really think the Fountain of Youth should be in Florida, since that is one of the fabled locations. You can move the Great Barrier Reef to the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef off the coast of Belize. I don't know how famous it is (I had to Google for the biggest reefs), but it is the 4th largest in the world and the largest in the area you've mapped.

http://www.reefresilience.org/images/locator_map_MAR.gif

It stretches North towards Cancun so you could make it where Cancun and Belize could fight over it by trying to expand their borders fast enough to grab it, or rather, the person controlling Cancun has to pop their borders fast enough to beat the AI city-state to it.