Thanks for the encouragement, guys. As soon as the Christmas bills are paid off, I'm going to invest in an upgrade to CC3.

(I don't even know what GIMP is.)

I did something different here, and I think I like it better. The whole reason for sectioning off the grass fill was because the roads were getting lost in the fill. I changed the spacing on it to make it less busy, and went across the whole map with it, pushing it behind everything except the green background, which I lightened a couple of shades.



I think I need to improve the look of the farmland now, though, and I may have gone too light with the background.