Wow! Great use of technology to build our world! It must feel a bit god-like, to move mountains around, like that.

Be Well!
Fireheart

So if you have the "north" and "south" peninsulas, does that mean you've discarded the western zones? Especially since about half of which appear to have been dunked underwater anyway by... well, what *are* you calling that giant 'river' that is bigger than the actual bay by a large margin, anyway?

I love seeing how the world is created. This is my second favourite kind of update, after ones about actual game mechanics/rules.

Thanks for managing to get out an update this week despite the massive cinematic distraction at the moment. :-)

Nice! Figuring out how to fix those holes with a minimum of work sounds like it was a "Eureka!" moment. Also, better DeathSheepFromBelow than Death(Sheep)FromAbove, amirite?

I probably wouldn't have asked, but I'm glad that little mystery about the Innswich River, assuming that's the southern river, is solved. I did think that, for a river, it looked like a strong contender for being a lake.

Also, kudos for avelworldcreator for so successfully distracting us with his color panels that we'd forgotten that an update was due this week.

Darth Fez wrote:

Nice! Figuring out how to fix those holes with a minimum of work sounds like it was a "Eureka!" moment. Also, better DeathSheepFromBelow than Death(Sheep)FromAbove, amirite?
I probably wouldn't have asked, but I'm glad that little mystery about the Innswich River, assuming that's the southern river, is solved. I did think that, for a river, it looked like a strong contender for being a lake.
Also, kudos for avelworldcreator for so successfully distracting us with his color panels that we'd forgotten that an update was due this week.

That is indeed the southern river.

wmilliken wrote:

That lake-like feature in the southern river isn't all that odd for the area you placed the map in. A bit north of there in New Hampshire is a feature known as "Great Bay", which is a large tidewater area well inland, which fills and drains via the Piscataqua River through Portsmouth, NH. The mouth of the Merrimac River, just north of your placement area, has a somewhat similar bulge slightly upstream of the actual mouth. The whole coastal region in this area was actually drowned with the sea level rise at the end of the last ice age, and there are a number of features like this where the rising ocean has flooded back into areas that were once land features. In fact, just a bit north of your Titan City area are remnants of some drowned forests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunken_Forests_of_New_Hampshire
However, I will take issue with your mountains -- nothing along that coastal area is higher than a couple hundred feet, as far as I know. So the topography of your Massachusetts is rather divergent from reality. Looks like your mountains might be in the thousand-foot or higher range? I don't think there's anything very high near the coast until you get up into southern Maine. Mount Agamenticus (in York ME) is the tallest thing I know of near the coast, and it's only about 700 feet. Anything higher than that is well inland.
Obviously, the demands of the game engine trump the real world influence, but mountains along the coast just aren't part of the geology of the area. (End geo-pedantic rant...)

Quite correct, which is why I specified what source I used. They are from further inland, but the needs of the game engine required moving *something* there, so we moved those inland features to the coast.

wmilliken wrote:

That lake-like feature in the southern river isn't all that odd for the area you placed the map in. A bit north of there in New Hampshire is a feature known as "Great Bay", which is a large tidewater area well inland, which fills and drains via the Piscataqua River through Portsmouth, NH. The mouth of the Merrimac River, just north of your placement area, has a somewhat similar bulge slightly upstream of the actual mouth. The whole coastal region in this area was actually drowned with the sea level rise at the end of the last ice age, and there are a number of features like this where the rising ocean has flooded back into areas that were once land features. In fact, just a bit north of your Titan City area are remnants of some drowned forests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunken_Forests_of_New_Hampshire

Incidentally, I was born in Exeter, NH and grew up in Stratham, so quite familiar with the sunken forests, the Great Bay, etc. In fact the Great Bay helped in forming that particular piece of terrain.

We have to take some liberties, it is a different world after all. But we've tried to make it fit the area within the limits of game tech.

Doctor Tyche wrote:

wmilliken wrote:
That lake-like feature in the southern river isn't all that odd for the area you placed the map in. A bit north of there in New Hampshire is a feature known as "Great Bay", which is a large tidewater area well inland, which fills and drains via the Piscataqua River through Portsmouth, NH. The mouth of the Merrimac River, just north of your placement area, has a somewhat similar bulge slightly upstream of the actual mouth. The whole coastal region in this area was actually drowned with the sea level rise at the end of the last ice age, and there are a number of features like this where the rising ocean has flooded back into areas that were once land features. In fact, just a bit north of your Titan City area are remnants of some drowned forests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunken_Forests_of_New_Hampshire
However, I will take issue with your mountains -- nothing along that coastal area is higher than a couple hundred feet, as far as I know. So the topography of your Massachusetts is rather divergent from reality. Looks like your mountains might be in the thousand-foot or higher range? I don't think there's anything very high near the coast until you get up into southern Maine. Mount Agamenticus (in York ME) is the tallest thing I know of near the coast, and it's only about 700 feet. Anything higher than that is well inland.
Obviously, the demands of the game engine trump the real world influence, but mountains along the coast just aren't part of the geology of the area. (End geo-pedantic rant...)

Quite correct, which is why I specified what source I used. They are from further inland, but the needs of the game engine required moving *something* there, so we moved those inland features to the coast.

Hopefully, after we have the tech available to not need the mountains right there, we'll be able to put them back where they belong. ^_^

A (not so) quick Wikipedia search makes it more likely to be an [url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lee_%28writer%29]Edward Lee[/url] reference... who calls Lovecraft one of his major influences. ^_^

Or maybe it's just the sort of name places get in New England.

Now, if, say, the Innswich is fed from the Miskatonic River, well......

well then I ain't swimmin in THAT river--unless...

Unless I happen to have super powers...

Yea, but... if it's like a Lovecraft story, you'll wish you never got those powers.

TriNitroToluene wrote:

Swim in it and you may end up having super powers.

Who knows what sort of dumping of chemicals occur in those rivers. If you go swimming, you might turn out looking like DarkMan. :P

Doctor Tyche wrote:

wmilliken wrote:
That lake-like feature in the southern river isn't all that odd for the area you placed the map in. A bit north of there in New Hampshire is a feature known as "Great Bay", which is a large tidewater area well inland, which fills and drains via the Piscataqua River through Portsmouth, NH. The mouth of the Merrimac River, just north of your placement area, has a somewhat similar bulge slightly upstream of the actual mouth. The whole coastal region in this area was actually drowned with the sea level rise at the end of the last ice age, and there are a number of features like this where the rising ocean has flooded back into areas that were once land features. In fact, just a bit north of your Titan City area are remnants of some drowned forests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunken_Forests_of_New_Hampshire

Incidentally, I was born in Exeter, NH and grew up in Stratham, so quite familiar with the sunken forests, the Great Bay, etc. In fact the Great Bay helped in forming that particular piece of terrain.
We have to take some liberties, it is a different world after all. But we've tried to make it fit the area within the limits of game tech.

This makes me curious what limitations you were running into, because I can't think of any off the top of my head where that would be the sanest (or even a terribly effective) answer. So clearly something new, or at least not particularly obvious before, it would seem?

wmilliken wrote:

That lake-like feature in the southern river isn't all that odd for the area you placed the map in. A bit north of there in New Hampshire is a feature known as "Great Bay", which is a large tidewater area well inland, which fills and drains via the Piscataqua River through Portsmouth, NH.

Not odd in and of itself, but a fair bit odd when taken in conjunction with the "main" bay to the north of it. But according to COF it isn't really supposed to be quite the way the map shows it right now anyway, so.

Actually, this would be (the mountains that shouldn't be there) an opportunity for Lore to diverge from reality. Make them a "terrain feature" generated by "geo" superpowers run amok back over half a century ago which are just permanent.

If we can have superhurricanes wreck cities thanks to superpowers, why can't we have "mountain ranges" spring up on one side of the city thanks to superpowers. The only difference is the ... longevity ... of the features. Weather disperses "quickly" while stone tends to take a while to revert to former states.

If nothing else, it makes for an excellent reason for a major Urban Renewal in the city's history that's "now" generations old by the time we get to play the game.