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The Underworld

Description
Is your soul pure enough to be able to start your own city on Elysium? Or are you condemned to the punishing lands of the Underworld to pay for your crimes and build a new city for Hades?

This map is a divided landscape that is based on the afterlife in Greek mythology. At one side a torched and rugged Underworld and on the other side the heavenly Elysium.

Elysium is rich with forests and farmlands and sits on high plateaus which the damned souls of the underworld can't reach. The Underworld has an abundance of ore and oil and is filled with craters and spiky rocks to build around.

- Both sides have 2 highway and 2 railroad connections and they share the 4 ship and airplane routes. Some suitable harbor areas are mostly along the beaches on the edges of each side. The railroads are all placed parallel to the highways which can be demolished temporarily to make way for highway exits. When you have unlocked the trainstations don't forget to reconnect any demolished railroad in your city areas!

- The highways and railroads of both sides are not connected to emphasize the different landscapes. But it should be no problem to build direct highway connections from the lower Underworld to the high plateau of Elysium.

- About 100k trees have been placed alrdy.

- Starting Area in the middle has plenty of windmill and waterpump positions to give you the freedom to decide where to expand to. My advice is not to place a sewage pump at the top of the waterfall unless you love the view of a brown/purple waterfall :P

- The sun rises behind Elysium and sets behind the Underworld. The sunset can be especially beautifull when the spiky mountain shadows slowly crawl accross the landscape!

- The map theme is Temperate. During the making and playtesting of this map I have used the European Color Correction which i liked for the gorgeous sunset colors and a brighter and more contrast rich look.

A Tropical version of this map can be found here: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=544245167

Everything is handsculpted in the map editor and even took a bit longer to make than Dragoons Bluff. I'm looking forward to hear from you guys which side you took and what you think of this kind of map!
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Micke Oct 29, 2015 @ 4:59pm 
Nice man, ty! keep up the good work! :)
JukedBox  [author] Oct 29, 2015 @ 3:52pm 
Finally finished with Tropical theme version! A direct link can be found in the description above -^
I hope you like it Göran Svensson!
Micke Oct 28, 2015 @ 11:35am 
How's it going? xD really looking forward to it
Micke Oct 27, 2015 @ 10:50am 
haha I did actually :D think it was springsnake island, the only thing i didnt really like was that the rivers/canals going through was very deep down, a high cliff if you understand what i mean. I like it more when there is like a beach but otherwise very nice! :) gonna check out atlantis now.
JukedBox  [author] Oct 27, 2015 @ 10:38am 
Thx for the offer but that won't be needed :). In the mean time you could try out a few of my other maps that also have a tropical theme: New Atlantis and Springsnake Island.
Micke Oct 27, 2015 @ 10:10am 
btw is there something i can do to help? I haven't really got anything to do anyway
Micke Oct 27, 2015 @ 6:15am 
If you want to that would be awesome! :D
JukedBox  [author] Oct 27, 2015 @ 5:43am 
First, thanks you guys!

@MrMiyagi: the shadow of those two peaks also crawl up the landscape when the sun sets behind them to add a feeling of darkness taking over the Underworld.

@Göran Svensson : It is not possible to change the theme instantly and keep everything else exactly the same. What i can do is make a heightmap of the existing map and redo roads, trees, resources and water. Hopefully i can upload the finished tropical version for you tomorrow evening :) or else the day after. Maybe i'll also play a bit with a few more beaches and palm trees :D
Micke Oct 27, 2015 @ 4:29am 
Really like the map but is it possible to make it tropical instead of temperate as map theme? (that's why I tried adding you)
Otto Oct 25, 2015 @ 2:38am 
Looks fantastic, downloading now!