Less Rivers to Coincide with Horse

[Jesus_Smith_Nandez]

Less and less people travel by boat anymore, with horses being implemented and on the rise. The less people use boats and the more people use horses, the less rivers are needed and the more they become annoying obstacles.

The map could be generated with several large independent lakes that were not connected. Boats could be used to cross these large rivers to settlements on the other side or to shorten a journey. This could be an interesting way to generate the world now that horses are so predominate, though it would make the world very dreary and unnoticeable, since rivers are what I usually use as landmarks.


I think back to really old haven, even though I didn't play.
World 1 map (large image):

World 2 (I think) map (large image):

[ekzarh]

All areas reachable by horse is no fun
All areas reachable by boat is no fun

There should be areas isolated by rivers (build a raft, yeah)
And big pieces of land (throw away your boat, build a cart and carry you 2 large chests, I know you have them )

And IMO it is more fun when river/lake density and connectivity differs much from place to place so some places are like Venetia or Amazon and others are like Sahara.

I know that we play Scandinavia. And I've shecked that Scandinavian peninsula has surprisingly equally spread river density, but please, for the sake of fun.

[ATHF]

Swiming horses. Duh.

[Nikitan83]

or bridges could just be implemented...

[sMartins]

And IMO it is more fun when river/lake density and connectivity differs much from place to place so some places are like Venetia or Amazon and others are like Sahara.

Totally agree with you....that would be nice.
P.S. Maybe one day could even be seasons and weather affections (cold, heat stroke, etc...) so crossing Sahara could kill you....if not well equiped.

[Kaios]

You can make a road to jump the rivers but many of them are too wide for a wooden road and some are even a bit too wide for stone, in those cases a raft is necessary but it would be nice if there were some kind of object/structure other than a raft that could do that and not be stolen or destroyed so easily.

[Ysh]

Map generation in general I think can be improve.

[jorb]

Differentiation and variation is key. I agree that there are a few too many rivers right now.

[Enjoyment]

Differentiation and variation is key. I agree that there are a few too many rivers right now.

Just make a small piece of shallow water in every spot, where river comes to lake - it is realistic and will fit both boaters and horsemen.