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Well I hesitate to call myself a map creator as I have only one uncompleted map. As for my favorite part, if you are talking about location that is a tough one to answer. Maybe the farm GEK did north of Jishi. That or the industrial area of the city maybe?

As far as growth, there is a number of things that helped me grow while I was working on the map. But I think changing how I approached making locations was by far the biggest one. Initially I would just throw down some roads and then place buildings around them and there is some areas where it still is like that in the map. Certainly the "bones" of the cities are like that.

But it isn't very realistic and you can certainly feel it while playing. Like if I throw a building next to a sidewalk or the roadway. It is playable, but in real life it isn't going to just be a building. People need to get there. If it is a business that means having parking nearby or some sort of indication of mass transit to get people there.

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It's a bit more challenging with something like this, where you can't just look at how people live now, but have to account what life 500 years in the future on an alien world would look like. Like if something like the Guta from Halo Reach was on Gao, there would probably be walls or electric fencing around the edge of a lot of the city to protect the homes and businesses out there.

If I were to go back and restart I would probably base it off of a real life location and use that as a guide for how I were to put down cities and locations. At the very least, I would have spent more time looking at the terrain and figuring out why someone would build in a location and how the location would influence how they build.

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Like with Campos, it is very long which doesn't really make much sense given the context of the map. It should expand out from the center. But if you were to do something like the Salt Lake City, UT area. In that context a longer city makes sense, because the mountain and water terrain limit expansion in two directions, which means the city doesn't evenly expand out in all directions.

Wilksford would probably be moved closer to the water, maybe feel more residential with houses aligned to look at the waterfront. Or otherwise maybe build up mining operations around some of the nearby caves, so its industrial look makes more sense as a place for processing and shipping those resources to the spaceport. Just adding a lot more links of inter-connectivity.

What was your favorite part? What part helped you grow the most as a map creator? :^)

its sad that its not updated anymore

Missed the notification for your question somehow

Kind of a mixed answer, there was work I was still intending to do on it, and probably a fair bit more that needed to be done in terms of optimization and improvement. But I ran into some issues that prevented me from updating it. I have barely touched Arma this past year on top of that.

In other words work has ceased and I have no plans to continue as of right now.

I would probably say the map sits at a 6 or 7 in terms of completion state probably

on a scale from 1 to 10 how complete is this

There was an update in the pipes with a number of big changes, but I ran into an issue where I could no longer get the map to pack, even with the existing build that is out in the public. I wasn't able to get the issue resolved, and unfortunately I have been unable to trouble shoot it because of some real life issues eating up a lot of my time.

Any updates on that update? Map is mint honestly but knowing there was an update in the pipe a year ago that's still waiting has me hype.

im not too familliar as just started doing map stuff myself, but ill DM you on discord and see if we can figure it out