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Old October 14, 2001, 04:56   #1
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Flood plains and mountains
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There is now a new type of terrain, called flood plain, created when a river flows through the desert.

Evidence: Green rims to the river when it flows through the desert, a wheat bonus resource and an info box in the corner which says 'flood plain'. I think we can safely say that this is in.

From the same screenshot, it is seems that mountains are visible from two squares away. This game has just started, but some mountains not adjacent to the player are visible. This should make exploration much easier, as you can home into the mountains and use their sight bonus to uncover more land.
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Old October 14, 2001, 05:14   #2
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Flood Plains
Yes, a flood plain would have high nutrients for growing food, but I would still be a little weary of building a city in a flood plain - since, afterall, it's a plain that can flood from the adjacent river...



I wonder if they will have these various seasonal "Mother Nature" tamperings in the game....of course, this train of thought could lead one to thinking of hurricanes, tornadoes, and even forest fires just to name a few off of the top of my head.
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Old October 14, 2001, 05:20   #3
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I believe it is plains, next to a river, not desert.
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Old October 14, 2001, 05:41   #4
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I believe it is plains, next to a river, not desert.
Look at this screenshot then.

The plains are a different tone from the deserts, and the green flood plain only appears in deserts.
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Old October 14, 2001, 05:50   #5
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Have you never thought of that there might be new terrains. Colonization had Plains, Prairie, Desert, Grassland and Savannah.
I don't think that looks like desert, but I might be wrong.
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Sorry, after checking various other screens I believe you are right.
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Old October 14, 2001, 09:42   #7
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It's probably simply be desert with a food bonus. Caution is advised though as deserts aren't that great defensively. How has Civ3 done with the idea of baseing a perfectly good city atop a mountain? In civ 2 when I tried this tactically sound idea I was punished with lack of growth.
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There is now a new type of terrain, called flood plain, created when a river flows through the desert.
The green bits right around the river maybe flood plain. But a whole tile is 200 miles squared, which is a bit big for any river to flood regularly. And the second shot just looks like ordinary grassland to me.

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I wonder if they will have these various seasonal "Mother Nature" tamperings in the game....of course, this train of thought could lead one to thinking of hurricanes, tornadoes, and even forest fires just to name a few off of the top of my head.
There is a definitive denial out there from Dan himself that these sort of random events are in Civ 3, but I can't find the thread. Sorry.

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How has Civ3 done with the idea of baseing a perfectly good city atop a mountain?
I sure they've said you can't put cities on mountains in Civ 3. I think that's in one of the Ask the Team sessions. Whatever happened to those?

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Can you see mountains from farther away? Or can you only use the mountains when you have a unit on one, in order to see farther?
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Can you see mountains from farther away? Or can you only use the mountains when you have a unit on one, in order to see farther?
Both are in the game I believe.
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i think its just a way to let people colonize deserts to get resources.
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