City Suggestions Map:
As the title suggests, I've put together a map where I've marked ideal places for cities, at least by my standards.
I'm not about to tell you that you
have to put a city at these locations, nor that you can't put cities elsewhere. I'm merely showing you where
I would put cities, or, more precisely, where I would expect cities to have naturally spawned over time.
My general guidelines for determining city locations are as follows:
> River deltas are almost always marked for cities.
> Straits are usually marked for cities.
> Land bottlenecks where transport routes would naturally converge are marked. (ex. the city in the middle of Sprakia where the route through the jungle is shortest)
> Areas that have absolutely no nearby cities are given a city, one near a water source, when possible.
> Extremely defendable locations are marked for cities. (ex. the cities by the mountains in Arcturix)
If all these city locations were settled, there would certainly be some diplomatic issues arising, some notable examples being:
> the four cities near each other on the Prussoarcturix/Volopia border
> the two cities on the Natrizima/Senturia border
> the city on the Samuelanista/Natrizima/Makorath border (how well will the protectorates get along, I wonder?...)
> the city on the Carausmia/Samuelanista border