Petra requiring flatland desert is weird.

[Digihuman]

A few wonders such as Petra and Jebel Berkal are really weird to me. I get them requiring being NEAR dessert, but my major problem is the fact that when building them, you basically magically create a mountain to carve.
Wouldn't they make more sense if they replaced a mountain adjacent to desert into the wonder?

[BladeSe7en [ICON_RESOURCE_FURS]]

From a practical real world perspective you're probably right. Petra should be built on a mountain tile. However, with how the map script makes deserts, it's more beneficial to have it built on a flat desert tile. Imo Petra would not be as strong or useful if it had to be built on a mountain

[Digihuman]

Originally posted by BladeSe7en:

From a practical real world perspective you're probably right. Petra should be built on a mountain tile. However, with how the map script makes deserts, it's more beneficial to have it built on a flat desert tile. Imo Petra would not be as strong or useful if it had to be built on a mountain

I know it wouldn't be as strong (as it is; it can always be changed just like Hanging Gardens), but I just kinda wish they'd do that instead. Or at least include wonders that DO build on mountains in future instead of creating mountains ex nihilo, such as Machu Pichu.

[BladeSe7en [ICON_RESOURCE_FURS]]

Ah yes I liked Machu Picchu in civ 5. Hope they bring it to civ6. It's ability could give trading posts +25% gold.
And speaking of useless mountains what would be very cool is when you research astronomy, you would unlock the builder ability to build an observatory as a tile improvement on a mountain. Possible yield of +2 science and an additional +1 science if adjacent to a campus (or give the campus a +1 adjacency for every observatory).

[Digihuman]

Ooh, that would be cool. One of my favourite Civ V mods was the one that gave yields to mountains.