Madagascar: Nosy Be Island
Like terraces / mesas / plateaus? This is the map for you! The terrain has been carefully hand-sculpted to build a system of flat terraces disguised by natural cliff or hilsides covered with heavily treed jungles. As your city builds up step by step, it will appear very natural! As it goes up the central hill, there will be areas of treed hillside, making the flat terraced terrain look like a city build on a hill.
A moderately challening terrain because you have to work around the terrain, but thanks to tunnels you can just run tunnels under the tiny hillsides that separate each terrace. You can also change this map to your liking!
This map location was a personal request, and it is indeed a very nice location for a CS map!
full airplane and sea links
Fixed the “too many ships” issue seen on earlier maps. The Start Area and the water utility shelf are where the shipping lanes pass by the island. The north shore (the beaches) does not have shipping lanes.
3 rail links
3 highway links
Note that one rail and one highway has a double connection, which means the traffic coming in will be twice as heavy. A challenge for you. After all, it’s an island. One solution I have come up with is to create a bypass highway with only onramps which allows traffic passing through the map, or going out of city, to avoid your inner city highway infrastructure / network. Underground is a nice place to locate such a bypass highway.
This is a tropical map, and the pictures I am using the custom terrain textures found on my New Caledonia map. You will have a very nice map in standard textures, though, as those default purple colored cliffsides are covered in lush jungles.
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Coming up next:
1. An amazing, monumental location in Africa
2. Summer relaxation on the islands of Stockholm
3. A magical journey to an exotic location in the Middle East. I am hoping the After Dark expansion will be out for this map
***You are free to make any changes you would like to any of my maps! Screenshots of your new ideas are very welcome!***