Back to the Drawingboard

It has been just a few minutes that I posted my last dairy entry. Yet I found it useful to add one other, extra post. While working on some parts of my land, I tried to find historical feedback on how cities once were built. It came to my understanding that my way of creating a land and building a modern road-network I needed to get back to the basics.

Basics

While it is nice to have a land filled with some basic nature, it does not directly mean you have the best way to start a map with cities. Every place, Every city, every part where people live has a reason. And those reasons are as old as the land (or just yet not that old, since most parts of nature exists longer than any living creature). Anyway: Despite my historical story, which was a good start, there is a better start. The basic: Why does this be here. Any road has a link. Any place has a reason of becoming there where it is. Any part of nature exists at that part, because of the surroundings.

Not my initial idea of a new folk entering new, undiscovered land is the base (though not a bad start), but the history of a place is the start. The history of different cultures, the history of humanity, from the first settlements to the results of wars are all bases how people come to live and travel the way they will eventually.

Back to the drawing board and lets see how we can make this land into a almost realistic modern land.

Happy mapping, Arbhin