New Simcity 4 RH game

[Maquiladora]

Medium regions are best to work on improving. Better good looking smaller ones, than big messy ones.

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Originally posted by Patroklos
I think that is a good idea Blake, as far as the tile sizes.

I also liked all the water access on the the current map.

Good to see everyone is in agreeance. Here is what the configuration of the map is going to look like. Gray blocks are all-water tiles.

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Any guesses where this is?

The terrain has been somewhat modified for to give all tiles around 50-75% land coverage and water access. Elevation still needs to be smoothed out.

[Maquiladora]

No idea. Canadeh or Asia again?

[Koyaanisqatsi]

I don't know...the island looks kind of familiar, but, I mean, it's an island...

[Kassiopeia]

Labrador peninsula?

[Blake]

Dibs on top-right, all those little islands look like loads of fun!

edit: For some reason I think it might be somewhere in scandinavia.

[snoopy369]

It does look sort of like part of denmark, or norway?

[Kassiopeia]

I'd guess Norway, but if the map is aligned like maps usually are (north is up), then the rivers (presumably fjords) are in the wrong direction.

Denmark sounds like a very good bet, though.

[Blake]

Denmark was my very first thought after "ferries" but I also thought I was just being biased since Denmark is one of the only overseas countries I've ever been to. (I remembered islands, and long bridges over sea and stuff)

So anyway I got off my lazy ass and downloaded a map.


Distorted, but it looks kinda like it.

[Kassiopeia]

I think the scale may be off, and that the map is a larger detail... you should compare the scale bar and its setting to a view of the Denmark area with at the same scale. And since Google uses satellite images, distorted isn't really close enough, it needs to be practically a 1:1 match.

It looks Denmarkish, but so far nothing has shown it to actually be a bit of Denmark. That and the orientation is wrong, because the scale bar in the Google Maps pic clearly shows that where north is, and it's not in the east.

[Jonny]

I found it... it's Xiamen, China.

[Blake]

Yeah, that is it.

I'm not really famialler with Google Maps, I did download it but havn't done anything beyond find my home and my parents home. I live too far south to have detailed scans of where I live, but I could pinpoint the dog kennels at my parents place =) - also nearby is an airport, and it clearly shows the planes on the runways, and also a plane in flight over a nearby river, at least I hope it was in flight...

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Originally posted by Jonny
I found it... it's Xiamen, China.

Indeed it is.

Map of the area with some place names.


The red line is an international boundary between Xiamen, China, and Kinmen, Taiwan. Also known as Amoy and Quemoy, the islands were the scene of heavy battles during the 1950s and artillery duels in the following two decades.

[snoopy369]

I was actually thinking Taiwan, but I had no reason for doing so. That's funny.

Good region. Smiley