[OTTD] New Netherlands 4096x4096 scenario

[ebla71]

Schimanski? Sorry, that was the commissioner, dammit.

German "Kriminalhauptkommissar" (KHK) is translated by Google as "Chief Detective Inspector" - or in Britain more correctly "Detective chief inspector" (DCI)

A police commissioner in Germany is usually a higher rank ("Kriminalrat"), but the city is obviously not Königsberg

[ebla71]

Ok, another "sneak preview" - but unfortunately that area is not really touched yet, although there is another graphical hint hidden at the bottom center

[ebla71]

Can you solve that "graphical hint" and also name the "map person" mentioned as the initial help?!?

[Argus]

It is clearly a city on a large river.
Shouldn't Dresden or Cologne?
I'm tired right now, I'll try later.

[ebla71]

It is clearly a city on a large river.
Shouldn't Dresden or Cologne?
I'm tired right now, I'll try later.

No no - you were 100% correct already at the beginning - I just wanted to give a chance to also answer the other questions.

Dresden wasn't a bad suggestion, but the steamer at the center bottom of the last picture is not from the famous Saxonian "White Fleet" based there but rather the tugboat "Oscar Huber" now anchored as a museum ship at Duisburg-Ruhrort, which brings you back to the police detective

[Argus]

I missed that steamer with my glasses
So Duisburg? Berlin or Dresden would also be nice. We Czechs still have a bit of an allergy to Munich. So I hope it's not him No, of course it's a joke. Wouldn't mind
I've just returned to the very early stage of Hamburg and I'm wondering what to fill the void with. Of course I'll put Hamburg there, but otherwise I'll probably have to rely on the placed local names.
And where they are not, I will fill it in with the cities I remember. Maybe Munich will be there too.
We also have a lot of villages with the same names...

[ebla71]

I missed that steamer with my glasses
So Duisburg?

Yes of course - as you might know by now, I'm a big fan of "real-world" scenarios with a heavy "Steeltown" touch

And Duisburg was - and still is - the quintessential steeltown, with the Schwelgern coking plant featuring the largest coke ovens in the world and the Schwelgern 2 blast furnace the largest in Europe. Also, in the 1960s era, which the new scenario will focus on, there were still a significant number of coal mines in the area, some mining even under the Rhine river, and then the largest inland harbour in the world.

I'm currently making good progress but will very likely not finish and release before the end of the year.

Berlin or Dresden would also be nice.

Hm, not sure - there isn't that much interesting industry there.

Once I'm finished with this scenario (and also the corresponding industry NewGRF I'm working on in parallel) I want to play a bit for the next couple of months

Then, I will possibly go for something really exotic, although this is often made difficult by lack of proper vehicle sets, or something very large with a full country.

Poland is an idea due to the nice PKP set and also very rich in industry - or Czech Republic Although I don't really like the 32-bit CZ set, since it is incomplete and does not blend very well with other add-ons, in particular for early (pre-1900) games.

However, what I tend to most at the moment would be Germany+Austria+Switzerland from the Danish border with an extension down to the Italian ports of the Mediterranean ... But I first need to automatize the map to scenario generation.

[Argus]

CZTR trains can be supplemented using Gets. It's worse with buses, trucks are also severely incomplete, so Greyfur's buses and Slovak buses and trolleybuses supplemented by Polroad.
Moreover, we are between Germany and Austria, so in any case part of Bohemia would be included there. Otherwise, it would be difficult to make a normal map shape.