Map

[ahowl11]

Here is the list of cities that Lethe1 and I will look to put into our map. Our map was made by the Fortuna Orbis team, a sub-mod of RTR VII and also used by ExRM another RTR mod. We will be adding M2TW textures to the map as well as straddling certain cities on rivers without it being buggy. I hope to include navigable rivers as well. The following list is pretty long so be patient. Also you might notice no cities for the British Isles, that is because I wait for a response from Edorix the Briton expert


Feel free to throw out suggestions. East of the Caspian and Northern Europe were the least researched and taken mainly from Mundus Magnus

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Italy:
Rome
Arretium
Caesena
Genua
Mediolanium
Patavium
Capua
Tarentum
Croton
Rhegium
Ancona
Felsina
Acerrae
Malventum

Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica:
Messana
Syracuse
Lilybaeum
Agrigentum
Caralis
Aleria

North Africa:
Carthage
Thapsus
Leptis
Cirta
Dimmidi
Nepte
Tingi
Capsa
Hadrumentum
Utica
Hippo
Volubilis
Iol
Garama

Iberia:
Bolskan
Mastia
Numantia
Asturica
Olisipo
Corduba
Saguntum
Emporion
Malaca
Ebusos
Gadir
Segobriva

Greece:
Sparta
Corinth
Athens
Thermon
Apollonia
Larissa
Thessalonica
Byzantium
Kydonia
Rhodes
Chalcis
Argos
Elis
Ambracia
Pella
Amphipolis
Dyrrhachium
Lysimachea

Asia Minor:
Nicomedia
Pergamum
Sardis
Halicarnassus
Ancyra
Sinope
Mazaka
Tarsus
Amasia
Amisus
Nicaea
Gordium
Smyrna
Heraclea
Side

Gaul:
Massalia
Narbo
Tolosa
Uxellodunum
Burdigala
Gergovia
Bibracte
Alesia
Durocortorum
Samarobriva
Condate
Cenabum

Illyria:
Scodra
Salonae
Emona
Siscia
Aquileia

Pannonia:
Aquincum
Noreia
Sirmium

Thrace:
Seutopolis
Odessus
Tomis
Istrus
Bizye

Moesia:
Serdica
Naissus

Scythia Minor:
Tyras
Olbia

Crimea:
Neapolis Scythica
Chersonesus
Panticapaeum

Scythia:
Tanais
Campus Scythii

Maeotis:
Gorgippa
Phanagoria

Dacia:
Drobeta
Buridava
Sarmizegusta

Germania:
Atuatuca
Coriovallum
Hafnia
Phabiranum
Tulisurgium
Rugium
Mattium

Eastern Europe:
Vicus Aestui
Vicus Venedae
Campus Heruli
Carrodunum
Leucaristus

Steppes (West of Caspian):
Campus Sarmatae
Campus Iazyges
Campus Roxolani
Campus Aorsi
Campus Alani
Campus Sakae
Campus Siracae

Caucasus:
Kotais
Dioscurias
Mtskheta
Albana

Armenia:
Armavir
Trapezus

Levant/Cyprus:
Salamis
Antioch
Laodicea
Damascus
Sidon
Tyre
Jerusalem
Palmyra
Bostra
Petra

Egypt:
Pelusium
Alexandria
Memphis
Thebes
Ptlemais Hermiou
Siwa
Cyrene
Meroe

Mesopatamia:
Edessa
Dura Europus
Seleucia
Babylon
Susa

Arabia:
Gerrha
Omana

Media:
Phraaspa
Ecbatana

Persia:
Zadracarta
Apamea
Hecatompylos
Gabae
Istakhr
Kangha
Marakanda
Merv
Bactra
Harmozia
Pura
Alexandropolis

Steppes (East of Caspian):
Nisa
Khiva
Campus Massagetae
Chighu
Kashgar
Campus Saka

India:
Taxila
Patala

[ahowl11]

Okay we might end up scratching the cities on rivers idea due to the fact that it can cause bugs and CTD's with sieges. Lethe1 will try it out, hopefully there are no issues.

[comrade_general]

Why don't you just have the river stop right next to the city and continue on the other side of it? I was doing that with some cities on my America's map.

[ahowl11]

Great idea, I will let him know!

[debux]

I have horrible memory for simple names Quite honestly, from all those I saw there, I can only think that Argos would be a good idea to take off. Mostly because I think there's too little space for a city like Argos (Sparta, Argos and Corinth are all in line and very close together). Instead, I'd give that region to Gaul, or any area that lacks regions.

Ih, and I'd strike off the navigable rivers idea... it seems to be a very common topic for many mods, but in the end it gets taken off due to the AI having trouble handling them (usually those rivers tend to get full with stack loads of pirates, than even get stuck when there are ports on the river)

Oh, and... your map looks quite bigger than the one of ExRM! It might be because the screenies Lethe has posted have a high resolution, something that my PC monitor lacks (and on topic, it might be a good idea to post some screenies of the map here)

[Lethe1]

there is a minor texture problem. Right now, I'm becoming a serious victim of Murphy's Law. No screenies yet, I'm sorry. I'm working my way through long series of error messages. For the same reason, Africa has been postponed since errors in mapping africa couldn't be detected right now.

[Jubal]

I don't know if any of you folk know The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but these RTW mapping discussions always remind me of Magrathea. 

[ahowl11]

Welcome to exilian Lethe1, hopefully the errors are minor and not major

[comrade_general]

Welcome Lethe1! If you need any advice/help with the map let me know. I've tinkered around with them once or twice.

[debux]

Good luck man! Didn't intend to hurry the process though, I just thought it might be a good idea to post the screens you've posted in TWC so far here as well (but what the heck, I could do it myself )

MAPS SCREENIES!
North Italy

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Sardinia + Corsica + Central Italy

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Southern Iberia

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Sicily

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Southern Italy

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IIRC, the starting armies aren't final, right?

[ahowl11]

Correct, the descr_strat will be edited after all cities are implemented

[ahowl11]

Okay I am going to try and start the map from scratch. Lethe1 has been very busy of late and I'm not sure if he will be able to continue working on it. I have all the necessary files, but the problem is I'm starting with a bare map. That means all the text files are going to be empty, and I will fill them as I go. comrade_general, I would really appreciate it if you could help me out with this. I will post my questions for you here in this thread.
Wish me luck, and let's hope Lethe1 comes back soon!

[comrade_general]

How come you can't continue with his current map?

[ahowl11]

I don't have the files :/

[comrade_general]

Oh, nvm then. I thought that's what you meant when you said you had all then necessary files.