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Sigurd
06-06-2008, 06:53 PM
Does anyone else see this as an exciting idea for developing the continent?

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Talroth's intention to ship iron made me think of trade routes and this seems like a really natural one. The bottom lake is Lake Festus in section 12.

A little magic and\or a lot of work and it could be a navigable system.

Sigurd


Anyone up for deducing the natural water path to accomplish this?

industrygothica
06-30-2008, 05:19 AM
I'm a little surprised that nobody's responded to this. Seems like such a great idea... Lots of adventure possibilities.

töff
06-30-2008, 11:24 AM
There are such places in real life. Yes, they are exciting and interesting!

You can break the rivers up with waterfalls or shallows, unnavigable spots that require portages, PORT-uh-jiz, no, por-TAZH-iz, places where the cargo has to be moved overland. You could also build a lock or two. You could also have a stretch where the river is diverted artificially into an easier-to-traverse canal. There's tons of possibilities!

Edit: Oh, I see you already had them por-TAZH-iz in mind. Fun!

Also, think about vulnerabilities from pirates/robbers.

SeerBlue
06-30-2008, 07:53 PM
If you have a heightfield of this section, even in tif format, I could run it thru saga gis and find the natural water channels/river routes, etc, for you. or even thru landserf,,,,then with a little tweaking it should be good to go. I could even supply the masks for the rivers for use in PS and such. SeerBlue