Possibility of future Wonder DLC?

[Pouakai]

Uluru (Ayer's Rock)

Ingame Grand Mesa art = Uluru

 

[anandus]

Ingame Grand Mesa art = Uluru

I thought Grand Mesa was the Australian name of Uluru?
I remember something that Uluru has two names, one original and one Australian.

 

[Pouakai]

Original - Uluru
Australian English - Ayers Rock.

Grand Mesa is in the USA

 

[anandus]

Original - Uluru
Australian English - Ayers Rock.

Grand Mesa is in the USA

Now I've Googled it I see, Grand Mesa is something in the US.
So this is a bug then? As it's obviously Uluru

 

[Pouakai]

If I can figure it out, I'll make a mod to rename it

 

[sukritact]

that would be brilliant, I've personally never heard of the grand mesa until i played the game, uluru on the other hand I've known about for ages.

More ideas:

The Mariana Trench/ Challenger's Deep
The Great Blue Hole
Aurora Borealis (A bit of a long shot, the art could be a constant aurora effect over the area, gives a large culture boost)
Dead Sea (No idea for the effect though)
Iguazu Falls

It's to bad we can't make new natural wonders.

 

[HammerandSickle]

Dead Sea (No idea for the effect though)

It can be two tiles, like the great barrier reef, and provides 5 gold for each tile and 3 gold for its coasts.(tourism)

 

[sukritact]

It can be two tiles, like the great barrier reef, and provides 5 gold for each tile and 3 gold for its coasts.(tourism)

Isn't that too high, how many tiles are there surrounding a two tile lake?

 

[CoolLizy]

but that's because its a geographically interesting country...

Mainly because of its size, though. Any country with that much land is going to contain a lot of sights. There are also a great number of other geographically interesting areas out there too that have no representation.

Honestly, I don't understand why the have the Grand Mesa instead of Ayers Rock, a much more recognizable landmark. Both the in-game model and the artwork even look more like Ayers Rock than the Grand Mesa. (Looking over the replies, I see this has already been discussed. How slow am I?)

Also, I'd suggest Victoria Falls over Niagara Falls. Although Niagara Falls's ability could be that any units adjacent to it will randomly disappear if your empire is unhappy. I'd dearly like to see the Panama Canal as a world wonder, though, if it gave some way to bridge small two-or-three tile strips of land between two oceans/seas to let my ships through.

 

[HammerandSickle]

Isn't that too high, how many tiles are there surrounding a two tile lake?

I think you're right; that's nine tiles around a two-tile lake. Maybe add 1 gold to the original tile yield of those nine tiles.

 

[Pouakai]

I also just found in the game files audio for technologies 'Calculus' 'Ballistics' (NOTE: Not Advanced Ballistics) and 'Publishing' three techs not ingame currently

 

[iggymnrr]

that would be brilliant, I've personally never heard of the grand mesa until i played the game, uluru on the other hand I've known about for ages.

A few of us stateside can say they never heard of uluru but have known about the grand mesa for ages.

 

[CoolLizy]

I also just found in the game files audio for technologies 'Calculus' 'Ballistics' (NOTE: Not Advanced Ballistics) and 'Publishing' three techs not ingame currently

Heh, you're right. I wonder how late into development they were cut.

Speaking of which, I never did think the quote for Machinery actually fit machinery. I've often wondered if it was meant for something else (perhaps it was the original printing press quote, for example) and they only used it because things in the tree had been shuffled around near the end of production and it was the closest semi-relevant quote they'd recorded.