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Banyak Archipelago

Welcome to Banyak Archipelago

BACKGROUND

So this map is a little different from my previous ones, in that I designed it for me to play on, so I can try out the parklife, industry and campus DLC’s. I don’t claim all design or aesthetic decisions were correct and always open to constructive criticism, but bear in mind the end goal was always my own gameplay.

NETWORKING AND INFRASTURCTURE
4 highway connections
4 railway connections
2 air routes
2 shipping routes

The highways can handle a lot, but snarl up due to the typical Cities AI lane changing. Using Traffic Manager for lane management of roundabouts and especially around custom bridges will help immensely. But if cross map traffic gets too much for you, buried under the centre square is bypass which just needs a quick lane direction fix to re-activate. Rail already uses its subterranean bypass, except a quarter that over-ground must be quicker.

Ample water, sewage and power are already available in the start square to get you going.

RESOURCE
Industries DLC is not a requirement, but I intended to use it with this map. The resources are useable, although I personally don’t hesitate using the resource painter MOD where I need to.

Lots of trees, so unlimited tree MOD needed. Forest on the flat areas is filler to avoid the empty look until I get around to building there. Before building, I delete them using MoveIT. Alternatively, it’s mostly the pine tree set on the flat areas, so you could choose not to subscribe to that. Same goes for terrain conforming grass if you are worried about prop count.

GRAPHICS
I used Seychelles theme and would recommend it. LUT I used is realistic 1.5, but never quite know which is best to use.

SUMMARY
I’ve already started my city and really happy with how the map looks and works. As always, a massive thanks to all the asset creators, they make this good game great!!!

Enjoy

Network Extensions 2 and March 2023 update
I haven't done any updates to this map since initial publishing, nor have I tested post March 2023 CS update. I don't intend on doing any further updates, but if you subscribe to this map and it works for you, or it doesn't, or you get it to work with some fixes, I'd appreciate it if you dropped a comment below.

Note this requires NE2, which is now obsolete. Thanks to BonBonB who provided the following links to substitute the missing mod:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2555133659 https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2555138288 https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2583482914 https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2583505058 https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2584930973

or here is the link to full collection of NE2 replacements by cylis:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2585558081