Nice! Should one day get back to playing more Cities Skylines myself :)

My favourite map. I haven't found any issues caused by any updates. Love the philosophy behind it, aligns perfectly with my own with how little of the maps "expects" a city. Beautiful looking, great variety, I don't have all the DLCs but it works great with the ones I have.

Nice to hear it still works with all the updates :)

What a wonderfull map!

No, Thank You for making this!

Thank you :)

Amazing Map!

Thank you! Hope you have a great time building a city there :)

It's a wonderful map. Thank for your job!

Nice to see people still having fun with this map :)

That marsh was one of those things I really wanted to have in my map as a nice and easy to implement eyecandy.

Really enjoyed this map. Ended up having to make a very decentralized city that had a ton of small industrial towns to collect the various resources while surrounding this big mess of a harbor town I had sprawled along the coast. Harbors were critical to ensure the entire region wasn't in just constant lock down from bad traffic flow, as access to the highway is really limited at all point in the game.

I really enjoyed the marsh to the east of the map. When I finally developed out that way it was a very nice backdrop.

Glad to hear that :) When the game was released, there wasn't really any map I wanted to play on and I mainly created this for my quite specific personal use. There's still quite a lot of small things I would do differently today, but since there are now quite good tools in game to terraform for example, I never got around tweaking the map.

Wow, theses pics are real nice. I guess that I had a completly different idea then you did. I wanted to have to try some fun with roads windings their way through valleys and different elevations, with a few tunnels going through mountain ridges and a few bridges spanning valleys. It's been great fun so far. I don't go into detail anywhere as near as you do with those fields and props, but I do spend quite a bit of time planning and laying my roads. One of the things I like about your map is that my first few cities where really built along straight lines. Your map has given me perfect terrain to experiment with more rounded and organic shapes. I feel like I've learned a lot working with it.

Thanks for the feedback :)

Back in the day those ramps had to be so deep because otherwise the bridges wouldn't work out and I really wanted those ramps :D. I'm not sure if that has changed since and I bet there are more eye pleasing ways to do the same thing today.

Yeah, I made that gulley with small roads in mind (same for the hillside) as I never really envisioned the starting area to be huge city center but more like a small village among others around the map. The hillside though has caused me quite a lot of trouble in my game.

I planned this map for a countryside region with small roads and villages among farms and forests. Better shown in here:
http://imgur.com/a/d4OFO

I really like this map, but there are a couple of rough edges. The on off ramps on the starting tile feel like they are sunk too deep. The gulley going south suggest that you should place a road there, but it's only large enough for a small road. Anything bigger just does not work. The hillside just north of that same interchange feels too steep. I mean the map by the placement of theses 2 elements makes suggestions by itself, but I feel that you should try and be a bit more realistic with the angles on your next map if you are going to be making suggestions like that with the geography. I would also have appreciated a full 4 highway connections, which is the maximum.

Propably not in the near future, though I have some ideas I would like to have in a map one day.

I just made this map for personal use at first as I really wanted certain type of map to play around, but thought why not just publish it for the others too.

And thanks, hope you had a great summer too :)

@Smokki are you planning to make more maps in the future? Also, i hope you had a nice summer :)

@Lord Suckacock the 69th: Thanks. :) Small villages was exactly what I had in mind when working on this. Been out for the whole summer, so I think you have found quite a lot of similiar maps already. ;)

@Arty: Just 100% vanilla map editor. :) I had few features in mind that I wanted to have (coastline, mountains, lake, crater and swamps) and I made a rough map with those in place. Then I begun to plan smaller features like rivers, canyons, etc. After that I went trough the whole map, smoothing it out and adding small features. Last part was to add resources like forests, arid land, etc. and transportation networks.

@Jones: Thanks, that's the feeling I wanted for this map. :)

@Eldrarak1982: Good to hear you enjoy it, and I always appreciate feedback :) Yeah those underpasses would be probably much easier to do with the tunnel tool these days, it was kind of a workaround at the time without tunnels. :D

Just one additional suggestion, after having spent literally dozens of hours on this map... in future maps, you might consider making the underpasses under highways a little less deep, and making the on-ramps a little longer approaching the bottom of the underpass. Reason being, the on/off ramps are at a very steep slope. Aside from me spending many hours trying to smooth out the ramps with a terraforming tool, there isn't much else I can do to make them feel more "natural". Please do not take this as negative criticism! I wouldn't waste my time giving feedback to most modder, but this quality is supurb, and I just want to give you positive feedback so you can continue to refine your skills. Thanks!

great natural feeling

I'd like to also add that this map is by far my favorite so far. The quality and attention to detail in this map is incredible and makes it extremely fun to play and be creative in. My only request is that you make MORE maps (and please, not all of them in Euro theme..... the workshop is flooded with Euro themed maps now, and I like the variation of the other ones too.)!

I'd love to know your creative process for this map.

I'll be amazed if it's 100% the vanilla map editor!

Is it a serious edit of a real heightmap? An amalgamation of several? What software was your workhorse? Photoshop/gimp maybe? Or perhaps you used a terrain/heightmap editor like wilbur?

Thanks!

This is by far my favourite map, i really love the idea of building small villages along the well designed rivers :) I hope you make more maps for the future, great job
And btw if you could suggest any other maps that follow this theme it would be great :)

Unfortunately it's not that easy. When you start building a map, the first thing you choose is the theme, which can't be changed after that as far as I know.

Easiest way to change the map to another theme would be to take the height map from this and start working from there. It would still be a lot of work, as you would still have to add water spawners, animal spawners, forests, sand, resources, plane & ship -lines, roads and rails.

I'm not a fan of how CO locked the European buildings to only European themed maps and I really hope they will either change that or some mod will allow European buildings on other themes too.

I'll be away for the whole summer starting next Monday so unfortunately I don't have the time to convert this to European theme :/

Can we get an alternate version of this map with the European theme?

That's really nice looking city :) Glad you enjoy.

Thank you very much for this map Smokki. As a Swede I've had loads of fun. Here's my sprawling 73k city; http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=431123749

The map was also quite fun to make, having some kind of a plan about how I would expand and build what in where.

This map was really fun to play on. The starting zone is excellent for making a small dirt road community and then a bustling city out further on the plains.

@BABY: 希望你喜欢的地图

@Greesygun: Have a good time populating it!

好看的地图

Subscribed! Soon you'll be seeing this map populated!

If you do, any feedback is always appreciated :)

This map looks spectacular. I think I might try it next.

Would the roads still function if you make the off-ramp connections without the mod and then turn it on afterwards?

I'll see if I can change the off-ramps to a longer and less steep versions during the weekend.

That starting off-ramp is not very friendly to people with the Stricter Slope Limits mod.

Quite fitting name indeed :D

I'll try that. So far I've avoided pumping water from lakes in fear of completeley drying them up.

Btw, "Schwarze Kluft" means black chasm. I think it's a fitting name for that oil field. ;-)

Thanks for the pictures, I really like seeing what others come up with the map. And that's a nice looking city you have there :) If you need to put more water pumps, any lake is a good place as they have water spawners and will retain the water level. So for example that lake near Shwarze Kluft would be a good spot.

>20k pop city plays nice. I use the pop balance mod.

City 1
City 2

Starting area

A third pump will dry out the river. I have two more pumps at the other river.

@Aqua: Thanks for the feedback :) Those rivers were the part of the map that I had to rework over and over to even get them function somewhat properly. I really wanted to have these small and slow flowing rivers, but getting them right was really hard.

In the end I thought that I would just use coastline or small lakes as my water pumping for the very reason you brought up as I made those river primary for the looks.

How is it with over 20k pop as the most I ever tested was about 9k?

It's a very nice map! I especially like the starting area which needs some thinking how to place streets and where to place buildings. You put a lot of possibilities in there. :-)

What I don't like are the small rivers in the center. They just don't have that much water. 2-4 water pumps can easily dry them up. You really have to make sure to have some suitable water sources in reach when hitting about 20-25k citizens.
Maybe you can put a stronger current into the rivers? That way they don't dry up so fast and allow a sensible use of dams near or at the waterfalls.

@Vii: They add some nice "eye candy" to the edge of the map. Never thought it would resemble Louisiana though :D Tried to get the swamps look like this: http://www.toinenlinja.fi/photos/web/00/00993_Walking_boards_at_Valkmusa_swamp.jpg

@meredith93: Thanks! You are going to find a lot of space for farming and forestry.

@Botch: Thank you for your kind words :) Took quite a lot of time to make this map (and mainly made it for my personal use) so it's great to see others enjoying it too.

Reminds me a lot of Louisiana :D Love the swamp lands.

This map looks great. I am a big fan of the specialized industries. The farming and forestery are my favorites.

Listen, man. I never post crap like this. In fact, I take pride in my complete restraint in subjecting people to my opinion of their content. However, after playing this map, I cannot restrain myself.

Thank you for this. It is as close to a perfect map that I think I will ever play during this game's run. It is in everyone's best interest to experience this map. If you're remotely hesitant, just give it a 5 minute trial. My opinion only cheapens this work, but it had to be expressed. React accordingly and appropriately.