List: Entities: Nature: Geological: Other

3. OTHER GEOLOGICAL OBJECTS

These objects are not consumable as resources and serve the purpose of eye-candy integral to the terrain of the map world. They sometimes define zones on the terrain.

3.1. Other Rock Objects

Beach Pebbles

• Availability:
• Any water map.
• Variants:
• Several as to size of ‘patch’.
• Remarks:
• Seashore littered with small stones.
• Reference: ​http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&...G=Google+Search

River Stones

• Availability:
• Any map having rivers on it.
• Variants:
• Several as to shapes and size of ‘patch’.
• Remarks:
• Rocks alongside a watercourse or in shoreside shallows.
• Reference: ​http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&...G=Google+Search

3.2. Mountain Peaks

Note: Mountain Peaks are normally scripted to be placed atop either Midlands or Highlands ‘peaks’ (unless otherwise specified) where they provide for ‘eye candy’ on the map. They cannot be traversed, prohibiting passage to units. Therefore, no trees/forests that appear on mountain peaks can be harvested for Wood.

Crater Lake Volcano

• Remarks:
• Has aspect of a half-collapsed cone with a small crater lake.
• Reference: ​http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=n...er+lake+volcano

Fumarole

• Remarks:
• May be place at any location (except on rises exceeding 30 degrees) and any elevation (Lowlands, Midlands, Highlands).
• Denuded small volcanic cone.
• Spurting steam rising, animated.
• Reference: ​http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=n...TF-8&q=fumarole

Mesa

• Remarks:
• Flat-topped mountain.
• No unit access to top.
• Is NOT forested.
• Reference: ​http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&...G=Google+Search

Snowy Top Peak

• Remarks:
• Has a high snowy top (think Kilamanjaro in Kenya).
• Reference: ​http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&...G=Google+Search

and ​http://www.west.net/~intoafr/kilamanjarofull.jpg

Forested Peak

• Remarks:
• Forested but not consumable.
• Reference: ​http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=n...q=forested+peak

Crag

• Remarks:
• Craggy, denuded and eroded.
• Reference: ​http://images.google.com/images?q=mountain...=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Pinnacle

• Remarks:
• Eroded and denuded spire.
• Reference: ​http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&...G=Google+Search

Smoking Volcano 1

• Remarks:
• Cone-shaped, small crater at the top; ‘Vesuvius’ type.
• Animated (smoke rising from crater).
• Reference:
• Momotombo ​http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=gal...DUTF-8%26sa%3DN

and ​http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&...G=Google+Search

Smoking Volcano 2

• Remarks:
• Shield type; large crater at top.
• Animated (smoke rising from discernible hole in center of large crater).
• Reference:
• Masaya ​http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=gal...DUTF-8%26sa%3DN

and ​http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&...G=Google+Search

3.3. FLOATING SEA ICE

Ice Floe Flat

• Remarks:
• Floating (during Summer).
• Animated(?) (slow movement).
• Reference: ​http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=n...TF-8&q=ice+floe

Iceberg

• Remarks:
• Floating as per specified for map.
• Animated(?) (slow movement).
• Has Aura that damages ship hulls when coming within two tiles of exposed peak.
• Reference: ​http://images.google.com/images?q=iceberg&...=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

3.4. SETTLEMENT

• Availability: On any map except game types Migration and Emigration.
• Variants: (1 per map biome category.)
• Alpine.
• Temperate.
• Steppe.
• Mediterranean.
• Savanna.
• Desert.
• Semi-Arid.
• Polar.
• Tropic.
• Footprint: 5x5.
• Remarks:
• Graphically represented by a 'water hole' surrounded by a few objects and plants to define its limits.
• Is a Special Utility Object in that as a gaia object it can be 'taken over' and and built over to erect a Civ Centre on the site, and while the Civ Centre may itself be destroyed on that site, another may be yet built atop the Settlement, ad infinitum.
• One Settlement is scripted to each Province area within the Civ Territory of every Civ player on a map, except within the Province housing the starting Civ Centre.
• Settlement underlying Civ Centre remains a gaia object, thus 'ownership' by civ players may change in accordance with the rules for capture, destruction, rebuild/repair, during the course of a game session (does not apply to Migration and Emigration game maps as no Settlement underlies a Civ Centre which may be built anywhere consistent to terrain restriction imposed upon structures).
• Reference:
• \"Well\" Settlement(Michael Hafer)
• \"Oasis\" Settlement (Michael Hafer)