ProjectS Map
Yay, it’s finally there! My first public map in combination with my first public map theme. Enjoy!
This is a subtropical to dry map with vast planes of just some bushes and grass and then again some tropical forests. It has a very nice lagoon perfectly suited for feries and the vast planes are just perfect for big city. It even has a background story (see below)!
REQUIREMENTS:
The bare minimum of trees, rocks and the map theme is listed on the right plus Mass Transit DLC for the roads. I recommend playing this map with the 25 tiles mod or any subsitute as this map was build with the idea of this mod being used.
If you don’t want to toture your fingers, just use this collection and hit subscribe to all:
This map DOES NOT REQUIRE ANY MODS!! I tested it to be shure.
Concept:
I derived this map from the heigthmap of the town of Singen in Germany (thus the name ProjectS in the first place). I just liked the flat terrain with the few hills, the close proximity of the Lake of Konstanz (German: Bodensee) to a possible town and of course the iconic Hohentwiel (even though it’s a bit hard to see in game, though still cool to look at). The terrain was modified in the way that I created a lagoon where a shallow swamp would have been and enlarged the tiny river flowing through Singen. Next to that I flatened the terrain in the space where the city would sit.
Because I always had problems with my road layout on maps that I created for myself in the way that I would try to make a natural road layout, I this time chose to directly lay out the roads in a more suited way for building a big city.
In the end, I changed the map more than I wanted in the beginning, however I like the outcome anyway. This also made the map a perfect spot for a fictional city in a fictional universe ?
The heightmap is from the wonderful website terrain.party that gives you heightmaps fitting for C:S Map Editor from all over the world. Just try it out.
As I have not been able to playtest this map in an extensive fashion, any comments about playability or suggestions for improvement (for coming map projects in a similar fashion) are very welcome!
The highway, train, ship and plane connections are tested though and should work.
Last bits of information:
– Base Theme: Temperate, you can use any temperate based map themes for this map if you don’t like mine
– Number of outside connections:
* 5x road
* 5x rail
* 3x plane
* 2x ship
– Mods used in the making:
* Map Editor Tunnels enabler by BloodyPenguine
* Unlimited Outside Connections by BloodyPenguine
* Fine Road Tool by SamsamTS
* Fine Road Anarchy by SamsamTS
* Prop and Tree Anarchy by BloodyPenguine
* Find It! by SamsamTS
* Move It! by SamsamTS
Now that everything important has been told, let’s jump into the background story (which is important too):
For centuries, babarians again and again besieged our beloved and peacefull lands in the south, only to be warded of again into the dry and hostile nothern lands where they came from (Comment: If you want to know where is where, just follow the sun on the map. It rises in the east and sinks in the west…). As our technology progressed, the barbarians suffered heavier and heavier defeats until they completely gave up and until now, about two centuries after the last siege, have not come again. Of course our empire kept an eye onto the northern lands, but as no babarians would come, the defense structures in the safeguard planes were given up and were taken over by nature in the end.
This has been the status quo until this decade, but wise as our new emporer is, he has ordered to spy further up north than has ever been. The results were surprinsing, as no barbarians were found and their villages and towns had been left for decades. Out of worry, the emperor ruled the northern land to be fortified and a city to be erected in the safeguard planes to supply our brave pioniers in the northern lands.
(As I am not a native english speaker, please help me improve my English by telling me where I did any mistakes ? )
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