From the looks of the screenshots this should be good. I've finally found a good well-balanced, and as you said not-too-busy landscape that's just going for casual but interesting. You're making me sound like a flammboyant fashion designer. Great job!!

My favourite map so far! Great variety...beachfront, ore filled rocky landscape and flat land. Very workable.

@MrWoody - Thanks for the help. Much Appreciated

@Metalmaniac1234 - Oh, and to stop the reshaping thing... anticipate how many connections you'll want to make, and build the circle using that many segments to begin with... and only connect at those nodes. If you cut half way along a segment, it'll always have to attempt to reshape the curves to fit, and it will always make a mess when you're making something that small.

@Metalmaniac1234 - Ramps and highway will always attempt to carry on a curve, they'll never let you form right-angles. Build the roundabout using 2-lane road and then upgrade it to ramps after it's finished.

@MrWoody - I really like the concept you have going with that and have been attempting to make them in the editor for the last hour or so. Whenever I make a connection to the circle, it skews the whole thing into a weird ellipse, and half the time it won't even let me connect saying that the space is already used. Is there any way you could put a couple on the workshop as I'm very interested in integrating them into my cities.

@Metalmaniac1234 - I've pre-built my own small library of road network building-blocks in the intersection editor... it's relatively easy to build symmetrical in the editor with a nice regular grid. The rest of the road building I tend to use a lot of spacer-roads and fiddly triangulation because I'm a bit of an OCD lunatic :-)
Overall I've found using ramps as sort of intermediate-local-main-roads seems to work far better than using 4 or 6-lane main roads... I've pretty much given up on 4 and 6 lane entirely.

How do you make those small roundabouts (not the highway ones) so clean. Are you using the offramp road? I can never get it to be perfectly symmetrical like you have.

Weird. I'm from Niles, OH (where McKinley was born). I know a bunch about him. Huh

I live in McKinleyville................................................... creepy :)

I live in Humboldt County and it's freaking me out that someone made a map of a place near me. Good work bud.

Good work, this is my favorite map so far :)

i live in eureka at the north end of town right next to the last stoplight on highway 101 till you get to cresent city.
people pull away from the light here seeming to try to get to that next stoplight over 70 miles away before it changes.
they must be going pretty fast by the time they get to this part of the map.

great to see a map of a place so close to where i live, even if it's not %100 acurate, i still am glad it's here.
you did good.
thank you

Just added a screengrab of my own city so far on this map, incase anyone's interested :-)

@johnsmithperson - It's actually not Mad River (although I'm loving the name!)... it's Little River, the next one north. It just occured to me that I had no real idea what the area looks like in reality. I just google-streetviewed it, and well, I can see why you don't recognize it! Yep, a *lot* of artistic license was employed :-P

Live in Arcata, the next town to the south, and although the map looks awesome I can't recognize it at all haha. Mad River is a trickle most of the year, but does supply water for the majority of Humboldt County, and can get really large when it floods. Really looking forward to building something here, and I love that there's an outside interpretation of the area!

This map is awesome, lots of locations to create multiple dams as well, you did a great job, thanks.

@gludder - Hehe, I confess I've never been near the place myself. I'm from the UK.
The islands off the shore are entirely invented for background flavour, and I imagine the river isn't quite a valley-filling amazoneque channel in reality. I hope you don't mind the liberties I took with your hometown :-)

Whoa! I live here and find this map early on a sunday, cool.

@alexxerth - Glad I could help :-)

Seriously, I think I just subscribed to this just for the roundabout.

Thank you so much for that roundabout!

Every time I start a map, the same issue always arrises, and I end up dumping like 10 grand into trying to build the perfect junction that both allows a sturdy initial road, but also allows expansion in the future. The roundabout here is done, I can skip that step, and get into dumping 10 grand into building some other inane road system now!

Seriously, you just shaved like 20 minutes off my next city start up time.

Thanks for your hard work! Your description really shows that you put a lot of thought and effort into this. I'm going to try it out now :)

Looks like a very intresting map and going to check it out now. Thanks for your efforts to put all this work in.