[REQ] Specific City/Harbor Fixes

nematode · 07-25-07, 07:33 PM

Yeah, 65 years ago apart from mainland Japan US and Australia there were only a very few ports in the Pacific that bore any resemblance to the SH4 port objects, which really are just recycled northern European SH3 graphics. Offhand, I'd say Singapore, Hong Kong, Surabaja, Batavia, Shanghai, and Dairen were developed enough as ports to warrant a port object featuring concrete berths and overhead cranes, and maybe Tsingtao, kinda maybe Manila, and kinda maybe Penang as well.

The overwhelming majority of the other non-Japan, Aussie, or US west coast ports ports in the Pacific were like, before the Americans came, it was a wooden wharf or an earthen quay and a few shacks, after the Americans came, it was a concrete wharf and a few Quonset huts.

Those are great photos Tater, although they are downright advanced compared to places on Celebes or Halmahera or anywhere in the Solomons, or Micronesian islands, or anywhere in New Guinea other than Moresby, or dot islands like Christmas Island's The Settlement, which port-wise was nothing more than a loading chute for phosphate sticking out into Flying Fish Cove.

Except for those big city ports that I've mentioned, I've removed the port objects from my LOC layer altogether and replaced them with just the jungle city or the jungle village, since there's no object in the game that's even remotely appropriate for a primitive port. Visually, ships riding at anchor next to a town/village coastline actually does a perfectly reasonable & satisfying job of meeting my own sense of "what it woulda looked like".

07-25-07, 07:33 PM	#6
nematode Seaman Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 40 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Yeah, 65 years ago apart from mainland Japan US and Australia there were only a very few ports in the Pacific that bore any resemblance to the SH4 port objects, which really are just recycled northern European SH3 graphics. Offhand, I'd say Singapore, Hong Kong, Surabaja, Batavia, Shanghai, and Dairen were developed enough as ports to warrant a port object featuring concrete berths and overhead cranes, and maybe Tsingtao, kinda maybe Manila, and kinda maybe Penang as well. The overwhelming majority of the other non-Japan, Aussie, or US west coast ports ports in the Pacific were like, before the Americans came, it was a wooden wharf or an earthen quay and a few shacks, after the Americans came, it was a concrete wharf and a few Quonset huts. Those are great photos Tater, although they are downright advanced compared to places on Celebes or Halmahera or anywhere in the Solomons, or Micronesian islands, or anywhere in New Guinea other than Moresby, or dot islands like Christmas Island's The Settlement, which port-wise was nothing more than a loading chute for phosphate sticking out into Flying Fish Cove. Except for those big city ports that I've mentioned, I've removed the port objects from my LOC layer altogether and replaced them with just the jungle city or the jungle village, since there's no object in the game that's even remotely appropriate for a primitive port. Visually, ships riding at anchor next to a town/village coastline actually does a perfectly reasonable & satisfying job of meeting my own sense of "what it woulda looked like".