recommendations on where to post a location guide?

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well, the limitations on Steam guides has essentially made it impossible to do the Location and Resource guide the way they need to be done.

I've already finished 8 provinces in the far north, which is the most difficult region due to the immense size. The problem is even a couple of provinces is already too big for Steam. I'd have to create 12 or more guides of just locations and that would be a complete mess.

I've never made a guide on another site, if anyone has recommendations on which site to use I'm open to suggestions.

I always used to use GameFAQs in the past, and it already has a NA:SOI section. I may create an account to post there and then create a guide here to link to it to make it easy to bring up in the Steam overlay.

I'll probably continue working testing locations and expanding further south while I try and figure out what to do about publishing a guide.

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For context, here's how it will look. A table key would explain "5" and "3" are how of each type of road connect to the location. "5" being flats, plains, ports up to Level 5, "3" being mountainous, rough terrain or small ports up to Level 3.

Steam auto-format is messing up the tables, in a final version they won't be distorted like this. The resources are too wide and the locations are too narrow below.

Ezo (Hokkaido)

Ezo is the tradional name of the northern most of the 4 major islands of Japan. The name was changed to "Hokkaido" in 1869 when Japan officially annexed the previously foreign territory during the Meiji Restoration. Land of the Ainu people.

Ezo

Castle: Tokuyama

Resources

Lumber

Fountain

Horses

Iron

Speciality

Seafood

Landmark

Hot Spring

Vein

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X

X

Location	Districts	5	3	Blocks	Notes
Usukeshi	9	3		Shinori	Hakodate Tribe (Navy) is there
Wakimoto	9	2		Nakano
Nakano	6	1	2	Wakimoto
Shinori	4	1	1	Usukeshi
Yunotai	4		2
Haraguchi	4		2
Mobe (Mobetsu)	3	1	1		Mobe Palace located here.
Hanazawa			2		Domestic value 0
Toi		1	1		Domestic value 0
Onnai		2			Impossible to build

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I still haven't figured out what to do for a guide on this. I may post a few provinces that have the most interesting building options since they're already formatted (somewhat) in a way that Steam will recognize.

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Tohoku

Tohoku is the far northeastern part of Honshu, the largest island of the Japanese Archipelago. Due to Siberia's influence on the climate, the area is traditionally remote and rural due to the sometimes harsh climate and rough coastlines limiting sea travel.

In spite of this, it has been considered a breadbasket of the nation for more urban areas due to it's fertile lowlands.

The Northern Fujiwara rule Tohoku independent of the Imperial Court in Kyoto due to the fierce warriors of the north. Eventually they were conquered and brought back under Imperial rule in 1189 by Minamoto no Yoritomo.

East Mutsu

Castle: Sannohe

Fountain	Horses	Iron	Seafood
X	X	X	X

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West Mutsu

Castle: Ishikawa

Lumber	Speciality	Seafood
X	X	X

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Rikuchu

Castle: Kosuji

Fountain	Horses	Iron	Landmark	Vein
X	X	X	X	X

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Ugo

Castle: Hiyama

Lumber	Specialty	Seafood	Vein
X	X	X	X

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Rikuzen

Castle: Rifu

Lumber	Horses	Speciality	Seafood
X	X	X	X

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North Uzen

Castle: Yamagata

Lumber	Fountain	Landmark	Hot Spring
X	X	X	X

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Uzen South

Castle: Yonezawa

Fountain	Horses	Iron	Specialty	Hot Spring
X	X	X	X	X

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Iwaki

Castle: Odaka

Fountain	Horses	Iron	Seafood	Hot Spring
X	X	X	X	X

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Iwashiro

Castle: Kurokawa

Lumber	Fountain	Horses	Hot Spring
X	X	X	X

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This gets through the Tohoku region at least, the region with the most potential building locations. I'm probably hold off on posting the other provinces until I figure out what to do for a guide. It's no use to post more if you have to sort through different pages and can't use Ctrl+F for searches.

Notes:

• Due to the Steam filter, any "_" above is a "k". So Fu kuda is Fu_uda, for example.
  
  
• I had to change the Resources for them to fit correctly on Steam and I may have slightly mixed them up. I'm pretty sure I posted them correctly but they got messed up in the conversion and some of it may be incorrect. The "guide" version on my hard drive is correct and I don't have time at the moment to check due various markup tags and such... it's not something I can do at a glance.