Chapter I: The Masterplan - Phase One

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Entry posted by Mascalzone · August 11, 2015

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Hi everybody! Here I'm starting a brand new CJ, my first for the awesome game Cities: Skylines I've started to play seriously since this month.

The very first thing I want to share with you is the setting I've chosen for this adventure: it's the largerly popular New Caledonia map by MrMiyagi, that you can find on this page of the Steam Workshop: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=495143057

The reason I've made this choice it's quite simple: it's amazing! Rich of geological features and superb landscapes, somehow reminds me of Hong Kong, but it's also perfect to play whit a wink to the Tropico games saga that I've appreciated so much! Another reason is it's a tropical scenery, that no dobut is my favourite. But a birdseye view of the whole map is better of one thousand words so here it is:

NEW CALEDONIA REGION

As you can see there's lot of space to build but also an entire range of mountains and numerous creeks filled with sand: this will surely be a city focused on tourism and leisure activities of all kinds thanks to the beauty of its nature. Ultimately this is a map that imho offers more clues for the imagination in building a fantasy city than the mostly flat default maps. The map is also fully featured with highways and rail connections, but I'm sure I will edit them a lot to suit my plan.

Other things I want to share with you at start are some spots I identified as ideal for some specific facilities:

HARBOR ISLAND

This island at the eastern edge of the map for example it's perfect for a huge seaport connected via bridges and tunnels with the mainland. To build it will need to give up its eastern beaches, but that surely isn't something missing elsewhere, so does not look as a problem! Moreover, the author of the map has perfectly connected it to the ship routes, then it seems as the best choice!

HELLFIRE PENINSULA

This large triangle of land is just north of the harbor island and is rich in all the four main natural resources: wood, ore, oil and fertile land on its nothernmost part. So it seems perfect to build on it a large industrial center able to supply the seaport without its heavy traffic has to pass through the residential areas. On the left of the image you can also see a small island (the same it's on the centertop of the previous shot) that looks suitable for building power plants and garbage facilities, keeping them away from houses.

MAYA BAY

This large firth is instead located on the western part of the region and on its banks undoubtedly offers the broader building zones of the map, making it the most suitable area to build the city core with the most populated districts like downtown, obviously fullfilled with skyscrapers! The massive presence of beaches certainly is an incentive, so the masterplan for this area should certainly comprehend lot of hotels and a dedicated seaport for cruise ships. Furthermore, since this will be the city center, is to consider the construction of a thick newtork of roads and at least a couple of subway lines, without forgetting a large railway station.

SUNWELL PLATEAU

This extendended upland is one of the most unique areas of the entire region, and since it is located at its top the idea would be to make here a rural area dedicated to agriculture and pastoralism. Almost bucolic! To do this will certainly be necessary to demolish, at least partially, the highways that run through it. To make well what the intention is there will be built two or three small towns surrounded by farms. Also there will be surely built an astronomical observatory and maybe even a small industrial cluster.

CAPE NESS

Located in the far west of the region, this foreland rules the entrance to Maya Bay, that you can see in the background of the picture above. This site, appropriately cleared and suitably connected via highway, railway and subway, is my favourite for the costruction of a large international airport although it could not be realized on top of the promontory itself, since unfortunately it's just out of the map borders. I will have to take advantage of the flat area adjacent to it, with the goal to do something similar to the Gibrailtair airport.

And that's all for now! There are many more areas in this region, but these are the ones on which I want to focus first: the work to be done is already so much. I'll keep you posted!

Keep followin' and you'll be surprised!