luigilime
Prince
that would be amazing, could mean we're going to have a kilwa/swahili civ in the game that could fill quite nicely the huge gap between egypt/nubia/possible ethiopia and the possible zulu
[R&F] Rise and Fall Screenshot discussion
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Thinking about governors, I'm now favoring the caravanserai being a tied to a trade governor.
However, am I right in my observation that every screenshot has 1 natural wonder and 2 world wonders in it? I also see a new resource in 2 screenshots, but no new resource in the desert screenshot.
However, am I right in my observation that every screenshot has 1 natural wonder and 2 world wonders in it? I also see a new resource in 2 screenshots, but no new resource in the desert screenshot.
Vahnstad
Emperor
Maybe this, i can't find something that resembles it closer than that (Red Beach, China). This is possible if you don't include taiga (and think the game just generated the pine trees in correlation with the wonder or so?). I discover it has patches of lakes and ice rocks as well. It's a very weird wonder, since it's really not that known (at least not to me).
Disgustipated
Deity
Kind of hoping for updated placement rules. Because one thing that worries me with this expansion is too many things to build, but our # of tiles is not going up since city size is capped. And coastal cities especially get a disadvantage.
Scaramanga
Brickhead
Even the districts you mentioned though have a dominant color for buildings (green in those cases) and that's just not there on that tile. Maybe a Central Park Wonder was too hard to model.
Pretty sure it is an improvement that you can build with a certain type of governor that was mentioned earlier as a city park.
Absolution
King
Also here is the third screenshot.
New district on the snow tile at the bottom. Looks research-y to me. Not a campus, as it's next to one. Resource in the forest at the bottom right looks new to me. Above that a 4-tile natural wonder. Just above the city on the right the Kremlin (or that thing of which I don't know the name that everyone always thinks is the Kremlin).
Parthenon (?) coastal above the aquaduct.
Weird purple-blue thing above the Encampment of the upper city (hard to recognize as Encampment on first view), could be another new district.
Could the bottom district be an Intelligence site? Maybe it has ti do with espionage?
Vahnstad
Emperor
The Kilwa wonder would at least be coastal, both in real-life as in the game, but i'm not entirely sure. Hard to verify 
The fort looks similar, but the main building is too much in ruins to verify.
The fort looks similar, but the main building is too much in ruins to verify.
marius_kaparius
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The Kilwa wonder would at least be coastal, both in real-life as in the game, but i'm not entirely sure. Hard to verify
The fort looks similar, but the main building is too much in ruins to verify.
I think I'm wrong because other renderings do not show that dome. What looks like orange trees is also throwing me off though.
Cuneiform
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Definitely looks like that.
Just trying to think what this could bring to the party, other than more great work of writing slots. Maybe some exploration/territorial based bonuses?
Scaramanga
Brickhead
I find it suspicious that it is connected by roads and a Theater Square district, which gets adjacency bonuses to wonders, is right beside it.
Scaramanga
Brickhead
Maybe increases Loyalty in cities on other continents.
Or maybe Spain is reworked and it's formed trade bonus is applied to this wonder.
We already know that a Governor will allow you to build Parks.
No offence to NYC, but there are very many more impressive parks in the world than the (perfectly nice but resolutely unspectacular) one in Washington Square. In fact, Central Park springs to mind rather more
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Vahnstad
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One new governor slot for when you colonize a city on a different continent.
Phoenix1595
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In regards to our mysterious Persian wonder, could it be Hormus, or a famous building near Oman or Aden? I agree it is more Persian than Arabic, so I would rule out Kilwa and many Mediterranean spots, and because we can't easily place it, I imagine it must no longer exist IRL. Gosh, this is a head scratcher.
JacquesBquick
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We already know that a Governor will allow you to build Parks.
No offence to NYC, but there are very many more impressive parks in the world than the (perfectly nice but resolutely unspectacular) one in Washington Square. In fact, Central Park springs to mind rather more
Oh i absolutely agree. I was the one mentioning it was clearly based on Wash. Sq. which while neat given that I've lived there, would be exceptionally odd to be a 'world wonder' hence someone dug up the governor feature making more sense out of these things that seemed to be better and more intricate than tile improvements but not significant enough to be wonders
It's not completely wrong, but I think I know most famous buildings of Samarkand and it's none of those. Definitive identification might come from the dome. It's not quite done how it is usually done in Iran, Iraq or Usbekistan. But I can't find a building with that dome.Looking at this strange wonder, Samarkand just popped in my mind, although it's probably completely wrong
Any chances of this mysterious wonder being Bayt al-Hikma?
It wouldn't rule out the Bayt al-Hikma. We don't know how it looked. However, I wouldn't design it with walls like a fortress, since it was standing in the middle of a city.
I'm still favoring a caravanserai - or a strange monastery.
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