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| - Rise of Nations offers a total of eight terrain sets and another nine where added by the expansion Thrones & Patriots for a total of 17. While terrain has no actual effect on game play, it adds some 'visual variety' and even affects the appearance of buildings and citizens. For example, in winter based terrain sets, buildings will have snow covered roofs and units will have jackets and winter based clothing. Terrain sets cannot be chosen directly by the player, they are determined by the Map Style. Each map style has weighted chances for ceertain terrain sets to appear - for example, when playing an Australian Outback map, there's a 25% chance for each of the terrain sets Autumn, South West Desert, African Savannah and Jungle to appear. However, the map files can be easily modified to add or replace terrain sets which should be used by a particular map style – allowing for a snowy Australian Outback or the Himalayas surrounded by Jungle. See the following section below.
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