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Island Nation: custom Sim City 4 map

The last ‘quick-play’ map I posted, Stain, was almost too quick to play. I found that with only small and medium size city tiles available busting any population caps was near on impossible. I did however find the mountainous, water surrounded, terrain fun to play with and it’s that base we start with here.

In designing Island Nation I’ve gone for an archipelago island chain, with a mixture of large, medium and small city tiles. The overall map size is still fairly small, being a long strip, but because large tiles are included the regions population can get much higher. Each tiles land mass is surrounded by water, in all cases this is enough for marina to be an option, very helpful in the later game to bust those aforementioned caps.

You’ll also notice I’ve gone a lot more realistic with this map. There are still large areas of flat land in some of the city tiles enabling large-scale city building, but the overall feel is closer to what you’d expect from an actual volcanic island chain. You’ll also find reclaiming land from the sea is sometimes your only option to advance.

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Island Nation terrain map