#map view

November 21: I’ve finally gotten around to fixing all the lots (that I noticed needed fixing)! Here are some before and afters of Willow Creek, Oasis Springs and Windenburg.

So I found the files responsible for lot placement and rotation on the map and decided to try and fix the two 50 x 50 lots in Willow Creek and Oasis Springs that are facing the wrong directions. 

I dind’t even realize that, for some reason. But it actually makes a lot of sense, because what’s even the point of the firing remote if the automatic firing will target everything for you?

But as you can see in the following two screenshots, the range for the manual firing mode is significantly larger than the automatic firing mode. Just toogle the “firing range” display of the map view and grab the artillery remote control to see the difference:

Another surprising application of artillery: you can use them to reveal parts of the map your radars can’t even reach! Because, remember: artillery shells are build with radars and reveal the map along their trajectory.

I just fired some shells in every direction to reveal more of the map. You can still see some flying off into the distance on the right side of the screenshot.

Even with my current technology, you can reveal parts of the map your normal radar coverage doesn’t reach. And I haven’t researched a lot of artillery range upgrades yet, only level two if I remember correctly.