Scenarios Based on Real World

• Based on SRTM-Date, scaled down with

factor 3.

• Some hundred cities, all based manually, but nearly on their real places.
• Countries included: Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Lichtenstein, Andorra, Monacco, Italy, BeNeLux, United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark, Croatia, Bosnia, Yugoslavia, Albania, Macedonia, Greece, Czech, Slovakia, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria, Belarus, southern parts of Finland, Sweden, Norway and northern parts of Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia.
• Cities have sizes from 600 to 18.000 inhabitants.
• Starts in 1920 or 1950 (2 versions included in zip-file download)
• A lot of industries, planted automatically, some oil-rigs around British islands and south-west-coast of Norway.
• NOTICE: 4 GRFs installed => DB Set v0.82 (XL), NewStations v0.42, PlaneSet and GermanTramSet. You should be able to play the scenario without these GRFs, but a message will show up that they are missing. Download all 4 of them: Download
• NOTICE2: Scenario Download is a zip-file. You need to unzip it into your scnearios folder, it includes a version starting in 1920 and one starting in 1950.
  

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We added a mechanism to simulate the separation between West and East Germany until 1989. Water will come flowing in slowly, and the border (simulated by a wall of radio masts and lighthouses) will "open" around 1989. Yes, we know you can easily circumvent the inner German border (by lowering land near the coast to let the water flow in earlier). The game is more interesting if you don't.

We uploaded this scenario on 3rd Oct 2007, the 17th anniversary of German reunification.

NOTICE: Rivers NewGRF are required (or newLandscape v0.3).
NOTICE: To download the scenario, 'right-click' on the link and use 'save target as', then change the file type to 'any file'. Left-clicking produces a page of unincompreshensible rubbish.

• Geography

Approximately correct; Based off height map data from NASA; Placement of lighthouses bares no resemblance to real lighthouses; Major TV Masts are accurately placed

• Towns / Cities

Populations are approx real 2001 populations / 125; To be included population must be greater than 10,000 in the real world (equivalent to 80 in the game); Towns / Cities have been included on the following basis

• all cities (officially must be above 100,000)
• all towns over 60,000
• all other cities (under 100,000 but with a cathedral)
• all county towns (towns that originally gave the county its name)
• other towns of significance (usually geographically significant)

Populations are within 15% accuracy; Locations have been approximated using detailed terrain maps and relative positions; 197 towns in total

• Industry

The following industries have been based off maps of centres of UK industry

• Oil Rigs
• Oil Refineries
• Oil Wells
• Coal Mines
• Coal Power Stations
• Steel Plants
• Farms
• Forests

More than 1 of the same type of industry per town has been enabled to allow more realistic placement; Banks are in all towns big enough (1200 population); Factories are clustered around the major urban areas, particularly in northern England; Iron ore mines are located in Cumbria and Cornwall as these appear to be the only parts of the UK with significant quantities of iron ore

• General

Mainland Europe and Republic of / Northern Ireland are not yet populated with industries / towns; Some industry placement may need revising due to large distances; Cities become very large in later stages of game, may be better to start with real population / 250 (half current levels)

Combined with an Alternative base costs NewGRF, Lithuanian map provides a challenging game, with extensive farmland, rivers and hilly regions on the southeast corner of the map creating plenty of difficulties to find the best path. Industries and towns are plentiful, however, only several of them are big enough to sustain local passenger services. Vilnius-Kaunas line is an obvious starting point for any business, with Riga and Grodno providing alternative and more challenging spots.

You can discuss this scenario in tt-forums.

The towns are in their correct coordinates, but the trees and factories were placed randomly.

• All cities and towns have their original spanish names. Their size is 1/500th of the original.
• The industries are placed in the balance of real-life economies and game-play.
• While the scenario is Sub-Tropical, there aren't any deserts; Cuba is a tropical island filled with jungles.

With plenty of water supplies on the small deserts, and some farms on the higher plains, this scenario is really a true headache, for every strategist!

Some ideas to build: - Passenger network from Launceston to Hobart - Water network, from the deserts to any giant town - Diamond network, from the small islands to the north to Hobart - Oil/Food from the mountainous inlands to the coast, where the refineries are located