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Erie Shores

We pick up where the Greater Golden Horseshoe map left off, by heading west along the shores of Lake Erie, up the Detroit River, through Lake St Clair and up the St Clair River to connect Lake Huron shipping routes.

This is the first released version of the map, and I have not had time for a full play through to test gameplay. If you have any feedback and suggestions, please leave them in the comments below! Much appreciated, thanks!

Update: 4 Jul @ 10:37am

• Fixed Coal mine missing in Lite.
  
• Fixed Lorain Steel Mill missing.

The Canada-United States border runs through the map via the lake and rivers. On the Canadian side, the map stretches as far east as London, Ontario. Sarnia, home to the “Chemical Valley”, is where Ontario connects to Michigan via Port Huron.

Along the Detroit River is where Windsor, Ontario connects to “The Motor City” Detroit, Michigan. This metropolis is the urban focal point for the map, including its suburbs of Dearborn, Warren and Pontiac. The map extends to Flint in the northwest. Rounding out the southern part of Michigan are the communities of Ann Arbor and Monroe.

At the western end of Lake Erie, where the Maumee river drains into the lake, is the city of Toledo, Ohio. Heading east along the shore are cities including Sandusky, Port Clinton and Lorain. The map includes the steel hub of Cleveland, and south along the Cuyahoga River to Akron, Ohio home of The Black Keys.

By subscribing to this mod, you will receive three versions of the map:

‘Erie Shores’

• Standard version with all towns and industries designed from real world locations.
  
• Recommended for high-end PC systems.

‘Erie Shores Lite’

• Reduced town placement and size for increased performance.
  
• Removed: Saint Clair, Grosse Ile, Vermilion, Norwalk, Glencoe, Tecumseh, Cuyahoga Falls, Lakewood, Blenheim, Algonac, Warren, Woodville, Adrian, Farmington, East Toledo.
  
• Removed a handful of industries.
  
• Recommended for playing on laptops or lower-end PC systems.

‘Erie Shores No Industry’

• Standard town placement.
  
• Removed industries for custom placement.
  
• Two farm industries remain so you can load the map without the error.

The southernmost Great Lake is an important ecological and economical part of Ontario, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York. It is home to a vast tourism industry for boating, fishing and hunting. Recent infestations of algae due to high amounts of phosphorus in the water are negatively impacting the vital water source. During winter, lake effect snow blowing from the lake often blankets Buffalo.


Andrew Spearin is an award-winning designer and director. He co-founded the Insurgency mod for Half-Life 2 in 2005, and later was creative director on the 2014 commercial release of Insurgency. Spearin also worked as a designer and led marketing efforts for Day of Infamy. Currently he is working on contracts for Offworld Industries (Squad; Post Scriptum) and Moonray Studios (Debris). Starting fall 2018, Spearin will be a professor at Mohawk College, while helping lead special projects through the college’s Game Dev Club. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario with his dog Lewis.