Does sri pada count as a mountain?

[Shifty]

In other words: If I found a city nect to it, will I be able to build an observatory?

[samthecoy]

I THINK so, but I'm not sure.

[Damsteri]

It have changed from version to version and from patch to patch. Currently I would say yes. There was a time when all natural wonders counted as a mountains and you could even build a machu picchu on the barringer crater. :D

In my last game I had city next to a Mt. Sinai, no other mountains nearby. I was able to build an observatory, but not the machu picchu. Looks like the current version of the game counts holy mountains (mayby not other natural wonders) to mountains for observatory but not for world wonders.

[Ludo]

YES for the observatory and NO for Machu Picchu (same case as Damsteri reported). I have the latest version of the game and all DLCs. Is that a bug?
Many city states are asking me to build Machu Picchu for quite a while now and mountains are scarce on this archipelago map...

[WhiskeyWerewolf]

Originally posted by Ludo:

YES for the observatory and NO for Machu Picchu (same case as Damsteri reported). I have the latest version of the game and all DLCs. Is that a bug?
Many city states are asking me to build Machu Picchu for quite a while now and mountains are scarce on this archipelago map...

City-states will give you silly quests like that, they don't care about the criteria. I was asked to build Colussus on a Great Plains map, which is like 95% land with no coast.

[airmikee99]

http://civilization.wikia.com/wiki/Observatory_(Civ5)
Bonus science building. Requires a mountain or a mountainous Natural Wonder (Grand Mesa, Mt. Fuji, Old Faithful, Cerro de Potosi, Mt. Kailash, Mt. Sinai, Sri Pada, Uluru or Mt. Kilimanjaro) in the tile next to the city, inside your territory.


http://civilization.wikia.com/wiki/Machu_Picchu_(Civ5)
Note that most mountainous Natural Wonders within 2 tiles of a city (Grand Mesa, Mt. Fuji, Old Faithful, Cerro de Potosi, Mt. Kailash, Sri Pada, Uluru, King Solomon's Mines and Mt. Kilimanjaro) also count as mountains for the purpose of building Machu Picchu. Mt. Sinai does not count as a mountain for the purpose of building Machu Picchu.


Weird that Mt. Sinai isn't included as being a mountain for Machu Picchu, even though it's 4 times higher than King Solomon's Mines, a few feet higher up in the air than Old Faithful, and twice as high as Uluru.