Something else i wanted to mention. I personally love that the height of the water is very close to the height of the land. I really dislike when theres a large hill or cliff along the water and you end up with absurdly high piers and ugly buildings/terrain on the slope. Since the game handles building on slopes so poorly, i find it crucial that the slopes to water be as minimal as possible, at least on most of the map so i have some area to put piers, harbors etc.

this map is absolutely great. my only minor complaint is the amount of elevated rail. I think if you want to strive for realism it helps to lay the rail out before the highway. i say this because (at least in the U.S.) most towns and cities were built along rail lines, before car travel, so the highways would just go over the rail lines instead of the other way around.
This is just my opinion though, and i still absolutely love the map. There are not nearly enough strong vanilla maps, especially boreal ones.

looks nice tho i strugle to find how this is connected to orkney apart the ring of brothgar and being it an island map :D good idea tho >___>

Beautiful map, indeed. BonBonB revealed it to me too. On my 7'th tile now and it growing nicely, thnx! I subscribed to that theme that was sugested, but thats for themperate maps, this has boreal. Any way to mix themes and base themes?

@cojun Thanks for comment. I pleased you are enjoying the map. It's good to know you and your Cims have settled in. Enjoy your walks!

Really love this map - Thanks a lot! Just finished putting a natural resort park around one of the small lakes, and now both Cims and me (in 1st person mod) enjoy walking tours!

Anyone could recommend some cool 2K or 4K theme to use with this map?

Very nice map indeed, well done for creating and sharing this with us :)

nice map m8

Thanks for the comments! Happy building! :)

I saw this via the great Bon Bon B, and I wanted it! Very good job!

Wow, just in from work, saw the comment from BonBonB, just about spat my tea out lol... awesome

very nice. starting new city on this map asap!

BonBonB sent me

Reviewed in What Map 492
https://youtu.be/qzfAfTtDB3o

Shetland is a good suggestion, infact it was in my shortlist before choosing Orkney. But I'd like to try something different for my next map, and Shetland would be too similar to this map. ;)

can you do shetland next please?