[OTTD]Trondek

[el koeno]

Hi all,

I decided to give creating a scenario a go. The name comes from the native name for the Klondike (thanks wikipedia, for getting another useless fact into my head). Anyway, the scenario offers a large mountain range to provide some engineering challenge, while leaving enough flat regions to allow for fancy layouts.

I've attached two versions. A regular one, with the GRFs listed in the screenshot, and a vanilla one without any NewGRFS (you can usually add trainsets etc. at the beginning of the game without problems).

As this is my first attempt, I'd really appreciate some feedback: is the landscape both aesthetically pleasing and challenging? Are the NewGRFs okay, or are there better options? Is the industry placement right? If people like it, I'll get it on Bananas.

[el koeno]

Here's a map of covering a large portion of the scenario:

[petert]

If people like it, I'll get it on Bananas.

Yes, I'll try it out if you could upload it.

[Coxx]

Well to my eyes this scenarios is aesthetically pleasing. The valleys look very natural, I like it very much. Some rivers would be nice.
I can´t tell yet if it is challenging, haven´t time to test much.
For my personal taste I would change the placement of industries. There are canadian names as well as some from Alaska, I think they would fit better.

By the way - how did you do it? The coastline look like automaticly generated, the mountain range is "hand-made" I guess.

[el koeno]

Well to my eyes this scenarios is aesthetically pleasing. The valleys look very natural, I like it very much. Some rivers would be nice.
I can´t tell yet if it is challenging, haven´t time to test much.
For my personal taste I would change the placement of industries. There are canadian names as well as some from Alaska, I think they would fit better.

By the way - how did you do it? The coastline look like automaticly generated, the mountain range is "hand-made" I guess.

Thanks. I was really hoping people would appreciate the valleys, as I spent some more time on them than I was planning.

I was going to add rivers, but I didn't really like the "square" look of them. Michael Bluncks rivers look better, but unfortunately they don't appear to work in arctic. I might still add some little lakes here and there.

What would you like changed about the industries? In the game I played to test the map, I was mildly annoyed by the fact that there's little room around secondary industries, but then again I wanted to have them in cities for them to look a bit realistic.

As for how I've done it: I've automatically generated a mountainous map, and edited it so that the valleys looked better, and the plains on the west coast were larger, to have some room for construction.

[SwissFan91]

I used this scenario, and i enjoyed it. The only thing I felt like adding was the AlpineClimate grf, and maybe a few ski-resort type villages high in the mountains instead of just large towns.

[EDIT] Attached a few screenshots, first of my interpretation of Sabourne and secondly my method of gaining altitude on a line up to St. Treborough.