As you may guess from the title, I've released my newest map, Tenasi River! What follows is the description from the workshop. Enjoy!
Welcome to the rich, fertile valley of the Tenasi River!
Tenasi River was born of a desire to create a large, powerful, and winding river. Inspired by rivers such as the Colorado and Mississippi, Tenasi River is a wide, bending river that snakes through a fertile and heavily forested valley. It is fed by numerous smaller tributaries and a large natural reservoir. The river itself is also a major route for shipping traffic, providing a robust waterway for large ships to venture deeper inland than most rivers would allow. Will you build a city of industry and mass production along this waterway? Will you conquer the mighty Tenasi? Or will it conquer you?
What the heck does “Tenasi” mean?
Tenasi River is named for the historical Cherokee town of Tenasi (more commonly, Tanasi) where we get the name Tennessee. The town served as the de facto Cherokee capital in the 1720s. The historically significant Tanasi is currently submerged under the Tellico Reservoir, a lake created by the Tellico Dam, completed by the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1979. A later Cherokee capital, Chota, is also largely submerged by the reservoir.
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Gameplay Notes:
The tributaries feeding the main river are in large part dam friendly (but no guarantees on how powerful they'll be). The Tenasi River itself, however, is NOT dam friendly. First, it is home to your shipping traffic, so unless you want the odd behavior of ships sailing across the land, I wouldn't do it. Second, due to how the river is created (at sea level with water drains for proper flow) a dam that produces electricity simply isn't possible.
If you use the 25 tile mod I think just about every tile should have something to offer for your city-building desires. Some are better than others, certainly, but they should all be interesting choices.
Final Thoughts: Boulder Rapids was the popular one (I think I just had really good timing there) and Powatan Valley I think was a technically superior map. Tenasi River is my favorite (at least for now). I think it combines everything I've learned about making maps for C:SKY very well and offers a lot of gameplay options for just about all tastes. Plenty of flat(ish) land for city grids. Plenty of mountainous cliffs for infrastructure challenges. Plenty of amazing views.
As always the support you guys have shown me has been awesome and I thank you. Please feel free to provide feedback as I do consider it all carefully. Also, if you post screenshots, videos, and the like using content that I've created send me a link! I would love to see it!
Thanks all! Happy city building!
For those who read this far:
I really enjoy creating content for this game. It's loads of fun and connecting with the community has been a blast. However, it does eat up a lot of my time. You may not know it, but I do have a small backlog of workshop items I haven't released yet, mostly because in-game icons don't work at the moment.
That said, I am considering starting a Patreon where those who wish to support my content could further do so. I'll continue creating more content for C:SKY for the foreseeable future, Patreon or no, but I'm curious how many (if any of you) would be interested in my starting a Patreon. I'm only gauging interest here. Still haven't decided one way or another. Just looking for input. Thank you!