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I gave up settling mt. For this you ll need to rush currency.

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Back to the list of wonders petra is one of the most powerful but restricted wonders in the game.

Civ 5 petra. Petra is 36 food and 36 hammers for a city built on tiles that normally produce nothing or next to nothing so it might make an average city or in certain circumstances might make a really really op city if the map conditions are just right and or you played a civ that favors desert tiles. Hello i m playing as arabia for the first time what s the best desert petra civ and i m trying to make a high production civ. Besides enhancing early trading its main bonus can turn a desert into a veritable oasis greatly helping the city.

When you have a city that has a large number of desert hills and oases building the petra in that city can improve it greatly. Situated between the red sea and the dead sea petra is a city cut from the red sandstone around wadi musa now part of jordan by the nabataeans who obviously had a lot of free time around 400 bc. Includes the wonder s function stats strategies for use and any great person points.

Sinai to rush this city and get it to enough population and production to rush petra by the time i finished beelining to currency. Petra a guide to the petra wonder in civilization 5 brave new world. Petra can be one of the most game changing wonders in certain circumstances.

I wanted to build it and make a desert civ that could compete but it was a no go with the 1 city only getting the bonuses. And most important only affects the city it is made in. Towards the end i starved the city to shave a couple turns off.

However you can typically hard build it before the ai. I want to rush petra so does anybody know the proper steps to building petra before anyone else. Carl s civ 5 guide.

For comparison s sake consider that many players place high value on the hanging gardens which yield 6 food and 1 culture and a free. Everything about this setup was perfect the hills desert folklore petra settling on a river mountain and a hill. Petra like other terrain specific wonders has an extremely high variance.

I haven t done anything so far besides settle my city. With the petra it exploded in all catagories and gave me a significant lead in the faith game with the nw. I spawned in a desert with lots of hills a bit south and i can get gems incense and i have sheep.

It can go as early as turn 75 on emperor but sometimes over 120 turns will pass before anyone gets it. Civ 5 world wonders. Even if few or no tiles can benefit the extra.

If one of your starting cities is close to a desert you should absolutely try to build petra.