Cities: Skylines

Cities: Skylines

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Mountain Rivers v2 (Bridge Fix)
   
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25 Oct, 2015 @ 9:09am
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Mountain Rivers v2 (Bridge Fix)

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Realistic Terrain
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Description
This is a map based on a real-world heightmap of a section of the Cascade Mountains, in Washington State. This updated version has a nicer-looking, more classic and realistic set of highway bridges that cross over a large valley and river. The map spans an area that would include a stretch of the Sauk River and a piece of the Mountain Loop Highway.

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Climate:
Boreal

Map Features:
Mountains (lots of interesting peaks, ridges, and valleys), River & Tributaries, Forest, Highway, Rail, and Ships

Missing Features:
None (includes outside connections for all 4 types of transportation and all 4 natural resources)

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I have been scowering the Workshop for realistic mountanous maps not set in Europe, but was dissatisfied with the offerings. So I decided to make some of my own from scratch.

This is an updated version of the original, available here: http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=540761635
The two versions are identical, except for the set of large highway bridges spanning across the valley and river visible in the 2nd and 3rd images above. Both function properly, it's just a matter of taste as to which you might prefer. You can check out the bridge style of the original in its preview images.

Detailed Description
This map has a LOT of mountains and forest area, relatively few flat areas, various sizes of rivers snaking through it, and several small tributaries that feed the rivers. So, if you are looking for a map on which to build a huge sprawling city, this is probably not for you. But if you are like me, and you enjoy the challenge and creativity needed to design winding mountain roads and find small patches of land for developing areas with impressive overlooks, then I hope this map gives you what you are looking for. Though it does have several small valleys, usually along the rivers, which should provide area for some decent developments. The map has some of each natural resource, though the "fertile" areas were added with a very light touch.

Notes
This is my third map that I've published for Cities: Skylines, and while I feel like the design and detail is far better than my first two, I would love any constructive criticism on ways that it could be improved, for future maps. Please let me know in the comments if you experience any issues, since I am unfamiliar with how the mods I have enabled might affect this map for others, though I am pretty sure nothing I am using should have any effect... Also, if you use the map, I'd love to see screenshots of what you do with it, perhaps to feature here on the Workshop page.
23 Comments
wannahockaloogie 15 Dec, 2017 @ 9:24pm 
This is exactly the kind of mountain map i've been looking for, just like you said all the maps I see are european style, or they would have more deltas and little mountain. Thanks for making the map and sharing.
Twister_850 24 Aug, 2016 @ 4:35pm 
this map is beautiful definetly one of the best maps ive seen !
HyphenTorpedo 13 May, 2016 @ 7:01am 
Thanks! Go ahead. Just a note though; some of the growables in the image are from Quad's collection of futuristic growables in case anyone asks, and there's the Shard Tower from Mirror's Edge in one as well.

Probably a couple of others, but I haven't played Cities Skylines for a while and I can't remember.
UltimusRex  [author] 13 May, 2016 @ 4:12am 
Very nice, HyphenTorpedo! I'll have to try and put a couple of those in the slideshow above.
HyphenTorpedo 5 Mar, 2016 @ 3:56am 
Also, if you want to see some of the original images from Newark, I think these are the ones:

http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=573626963

http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=573626256

http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=638357018

Obviously these were from a little while ago, before I figured out how to disable the HUD :P
HyphenTorpedo 5 Mar, 2016 @ 3:51am 
Hey UltimusRex, here a few of the screenshots:

http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=585429772

http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=585429459

http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=585430334

http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=585429927

http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=585430474

It's not Newark megacity since I scrapped that and tried again and I can't remember this one's name, but it was pretty organic for most of the districts. On the last one I was able to fit in an airport in a valley to the east along a river. In this one I think I turned that place into a farm.
UltimusRex  [author] 5 Mar, 2016 @ 3:19am 
Thank you Captain-NO. I'm glad to hear it fit with your collection.
UltimusRex  [author] 5 Mar, 2016 @ 3:13am 
Hey Hyphen. I've been away for a while, sorry I missed your response. I checked your screenshots, but there look to be several Cities: Skylines images. Can you let me know somehow which two are from this map? Or link me to them if you're able to figure that out? Thanks!
Captain-No 24 Feb, 2016 @ 1:59pm 
fit well in the -US PACIFIC COAST- all in one Collection:
http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=628114281
thank you Thumbs up
HyphenTorpedo 3 Jan, 2016 @ 12:40am 
There you go, I changed it to public. It was marked as friends only, sorry about that.