Yes, I agree. You're refusing to understand my point.This inane conversation has gone long enough.
Ill informed assumptions?I understand your point, it's just that it's stupid and talking about it is a waste of time. Please take my conversations with other people who make sensible contributions instead of dragging out minute questions over multiple pages into account before making ill informed assumptions about me as a person.
Leoreth's refusing to give you an actual explanation. The best option is to accept that you're not getting one from him. I'll try my hand, though.Ill informed assumptions?
So for comparison I tried your proposal while keeping the islands connected:
I think it approximates the recognisable shape of the two islands better.
By the way, comparing your and my screenshot illustrates how much more vibrant HR's terrain is. I am considering to switch to it.
Honestly it is mostly for the aesthetic, both for having the city be directly in water and for placing it 1S of its previous location (which reduces overlap and gives the city its historical hinterland) without turning the tile into a genuine land tile which would imply the city being located at an east facing coast instead of a south facing one.I don't really see the use of a Lagoon, to be honest? It is a land tile, that looks like water, and has a +100% defence bonus, right? But it is only going to be used for Venice (though I appreciate the humour in that)? It also looks a bit odd and unfitting, to me, but that is subjective. What is the idea behind it, what is the need, what do you have in mind for it?
Oh really? I thought I had copied the distance directly from your suggestion.I still prefer them seperate, but they are positioned better relative to each other this way. No worries, personal preference in the end. However, both islands are much too close to Australia in your pic. Should be 7 water tiles between Tasmania and the top of the South Island, in your pic it looks like there's only 5. NZ is south of Fiji, not New Caledonia. Shifting NZ to that position will have the added effect of making some of the coast and island tiles look more appropriate, Stewart Island in particular.
Maybe New Orleans could be lagoon tooSome places where you could use the lagoon terrain:
the Maldives, Funafuti (Tuvalu), Tokelau, Bora Bora and others in French Polynesia, Ganvie (Cotonou), Indonesia and the Philippines (check out the Sama-Bajau), the Dutch islands on the North Sea; and some lakes have the same concept (they're not coastal lagoons, but cities were built on them): Tenochtitlan, the villages on Lake Inle (Myanmar).
What do you think about having a true Venice in the water?
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Lagoon is a new terrain type that uses Coast art but is treated as land, so land units can move there and build a city. It looks rather fitting. The terrain also has +100% defense so Venice is historically hard to conquer. It's kind of a gimmick because this is the only place on the map I could think of where this would be actually used, but it represents the unique nature of the city better than anything else we've had.
In other news, I quickly revisited Polynesia to make sure it behaves the same in its UHV. In some cases this meant that I reverted the configuration of the islands to be closer to the old map.
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Your plains terrain in particular looks much more vibrant in your screenshot, but apparently that's just the difference in our screen settings. The water looks really good though.HR's terrain is just Blue Marble with some small tweaks and additions. Biggest difference is the water effect.
But most people can walk on islands. Also cities can't be built on water, except Venice and Tenochtitlan.most people cant walk on water
In this map, Suzhou is on the lake tile and Yangzhou is north of Nanjing.Nanjing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou should be crowded and require a choice: Nanjing for defense and centrality, Hangzhou for production and food, or Shanghai for ocean tiles and spacing. Suzhou and Yangzhou are also right there.
The graphics remind me strongly of SpongeBob and his big blue eyes.Am I the only one who thinks that the whole lagoon thing is just a joke?