What is the best map?

[Brechnor]

What is the best map at the moment?

[loverevolutionary]

Depends on what you like. It's subjective. What are you looking for in a map? Realism, or a more artistic approach? Do you like big open areas, or do you want lots of challenging terrain? Do you mind having to jump through hoops and download a bunch of mods and assets to make the map work? Do you want realistically placed resources, or do you not mind when the author uses resources to, say, color different fields and farms artistically? Do you like maps with ports, or are you okay with not having any shipping? Do you want a map with good hydro power? Do you need wind power in the starting tile?

Really, it all depends on what you want from a map.

[Brechnor]

hmmm good question;
I'm in the mood for a map that is challenging but not overpoweringly difficult,
realistically placed resources yes,
ports yes,
hills and things too,
something just as nice to look at as it is to play :)

[butthead69]

I personally like any map with hills and mountains, the more uneven the better.

[loverevolutionary]

Well, I won't go so far as to claim it is the best, but I'm rather proud of a map I just finished that fits your description perfectly, Brechnor, if you like tropical maps.

It has plenty of flat areas, especially in the starting tile, but there are some nice terrain features like low cliffs, craggy ridge lines, a small cinder cone, and a winding river that flows down a huge waterfall into an eroded volcanic caldera, and then snakes through the playing area before ending in a braided estuary with many small islands.

This is my third version of the map, featuring carefully flattened and graded waterfront areas for use with the new After Dark leisure assets like docks. I have also ensured there are several choice spots big and flat enough for the International Airport.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=538867059

[butthead69]

Originally posted by loverevolutionary:

Well, I won't go so far as to claim it is the best, but I'm rather proud of a map I just finished that fits your description perfectly, Brechnor, if you like tropical maps.

It has plenty of flat areas, especially in the starting tile, but there are some nice terrain features like low cliffs, craggy ridge lines, a small cinder cone, and a winding river that flows down a huge waterfall into an eroded volcanic caldera, and then snakes through the playing area before ending in a braided estuary with many small islands.

This is my third version of the map, featuring carefully flattened and graded waterfront areas for use with the new After Dark leisure assets like docks. I have also ensured there are several choice spots big and flat enough for the International Airport.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=538867059

Subbed and will check it out in a little bit here.
Thanks!

[Jmuadib]

I'll be checking it out as well, nice job.

[ms6615]

Originally posted by loverevolutionary:

Well, I won't go so far as to claim it is the best, but I'm rather proud of a map I just finished that fits your description perfectly, Brechnor, if you like tropical maps.

It has plenty of flat areas, especially in the starting tile, but there are some nice terrain features like low cliffs, craggy ridge lines, a small cinder cone, and a winding river that flows down a huge waterfall into an eroded volcanic caldera, and then snakes through the playing area before ending in a braided estuary with many small islands.

This is my third version of the map, featuring carefully flattened and graded waterfront areas for use with the new After Dark leisure assets like docks. I have also ensured there are several choice spots big and flat enough for the International Airport.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=538867059

don't know if i've stated it directly to you yet, but i do very much enjoy this map, even if you do bring it up constantly like a new parent talking about their newborn lol. i don't know if it would work quite well for the type of cities i build, but i appreciate the amount of care you took in making it. i hate downloading workshop maps that look awesome only to open them up and everything is messy and awkward up close :/ so it's refreshing to know that at least some people put effort into it.

[ms6615]

the maps i enjoy most are ones that don't really continue any playable area outside the center 25 tiles. i always find it strange that neighborhoods of my city just stop at some dotted line and there is NOTHING on the other side for as far as i can see. so i like to have water or mountains or some sort of natural boundary before or at the city limit lines on each side of the map. for example, right now i am playing a map of auckland, new zealand, which is on an isthmus. water on two sides and mountainous regions on the other two sides, framing the city.

other than that i LOVE maps that are terrain only. oh the hours i have spent in the map editor deleting out people's horrifying attempts at highway and rail networks. if you aren't inserting them to mimic actual roads that exist in real cities on the terrain you've modeled, it seems like most people should just leave them up to the player. personally, i don't ever model the actual cities from those terrains, i just pick cities that have cool land and build my own stuff so having highways catered to a different metropolis is counter intuitive anyway

[JernBesta]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=538877738

This one is a beauty!

[Brechnor]

cool, do you guys think it's also worth paying for after dark?

[Twelvefield]

As opposed to pirating it? Pirates are blood-sucking bottom-dwellers beneath scum. The price asked for After Dark is fair for what you get, if that's what you mean.

[JernBesta]

It's a really good extention to the game. 10/10 would enjoy it.