City Locations

Maybe consider what resources are available in each location and where theyd be. A city would probably be around that

>>44019889
Hmmmm. I guess so. Since I'm not that great at resource allocation, I'm not sure how to distribute them.

>>44019843
You should have placed cities at points where cities should logically be before drawing up provinces.

>>44019922
Yeah, in hindsight that was a pretty terrible idea.

>>44019843
When I draw maps 70% of the cities are built on bodies of water.
Large mountain range with only one valley going through it? -Build a city.
Naturally defensible bay on the coast? -Build a city.
River in the middle of a desert (like the Nile)? -Build a city.
Defensible yet pleasant mesa/plateau? -Build a city.
Strait/crossing where trade can be cut off easily? -Build a city.


>>44019922
This too. Provinces are based on geography. Show us where the mountains and rivers are and we can point out the best locations.

Alright, I haven't really thought this through. I'm too retarded to create a realistic map and don't have any geographic features. Is this fixable or should I learn how to make a proper map?

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>>44020069
Either
A) Throw two random mountain ranges and four rivers at the map and call it a day. The players probably won't care too much.
or
B) Spend eight hours researching and making a map in photoshop.
or
C) Steal a map. Like this one which is a "terriformed" map of Mars. It looks cool and you could do some fun stuff with it.

Okay, OP here again. I made a similar map in Civ 5. Where should cities be in relation to these resources/geography?

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>>44020310

>>44020310
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/polygon-map-generation/demo.html

Use this.
Have fun!

>>44019843
put them down next to wherever you think a source of water in that region would make sense. If there is no water in that zone that's easily accessible, then there is no city and the place is a badlands.