Geography Wishlist Thread - Vector Thrust

Where you post all those beautiful vistas and interesting map components you'd love to see in VT. (static structures like buildings can also count, though this is more aimed at landscapes)

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To start out, terraced farmland.

and the roadside airfields of Sweden.

Canyons!

Tunnels!

On the serious note, since we're talking about a post-nuclear war world here, I'd like to see a post-war submerged city (i.e that sunken portion of Farbanti on AC4).

Dogfighting high above a big city during night time is the most 'romantic' moment in any air combat game. If possible, make an ace squadron encounter there.

Ace Combat-wise, I'm always fond of 'space center island' vistas like Comona and such.

Also orbital elevator since I know szboudreau01 want it too >:3

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A Nazca-like southamerican mesa would be a first in a game of this kind. Especially if it has the altitude for it .

A supervolcano caldera might be interesting too; add hot springs to the list, submerged city ( I approve Nergal01's idea ), A border area between two countries that holds a stark contrast ( IIRC, the border between Canada and the US bears a striking difference between both sides, but there's worse: North / South Korea, and so on... ).

The Irazù mountainrange is also something unique.

Nergal01 wrote: Also orbital elevator since I know szboudreau01 want it too >:3

You read my mind!

On a more serious note, we need bays.

Think , but with more interesting landscape. Canyons and huge caves might help.

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Arctic/Antarctic area with northern/southern lights ala the cruise missile intercept mission in AC4

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Kinda off topic I think but kinda related. How about LEO/HEO/GEO space environments with large quantities space junk from bootstrap space development, meteor showers, small asteroids and rogue kill sats with a stunning vista of the world VT takes place in?

Karst landscapes with subterranean portions?

: D.... is my only reaction to the first picture's B. Gimmegimmegimme

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Since I played too much Strike Commander lately:

Grand Canyon-style canyon. Maybe plus tons of 'tunnel entries' you can fly inside as enterances to an underground secret base.

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I don't know, off the top of my head, of any really big arches to name off the top of my head near the grand canyon, but spider web arches and those sorts of formations are neat: Cdn.c.photoshelter.com

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Probably somewhere in the Southwest US, carved by wind erosion. To be honest, though it's impressive, I don't think that wind erosion works on the scale needed to make these features large enough to be fly-through-able. Then again, I proposed the Karst formations because tunnels, knowing full well that most of them are only a few meters wide.

I know I've seen one or two fairly large arches, but those like what I've linked are just a few meters. Much more simplistic ones, I believe, can be quite big.

Google FTW

Something other neat stuff pulled straight from google:

In the realm of other neat geographical stuff that's google worthy, check out natural bridges, they're generally large enough to fit a jet through and pretty damn cool looking.

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Swedish naval base in Musko?

IbizenThoth wrote:
Swedish naval base in Musko?

Hm, I remember ACX have similar kind of naval base.

Bonus point for guessing how *big* the explosion is when you put a single missile into the cave's mouth.

Here's a kind of 'nation' I'd like to see:
a wasteland that was used to be a sprawling huge metropolis before the war, it's now a 'nation' populated by high-level criminals, terrorists, warlords, druglords, crimelords, human traffickers and such. The 'goverment' is actually a sort of huge Mafia/Yakuza-like organization with their own army/PMC that on par with some first-world nations. A pretty much anarchistic 'nation' with high-tier military strength, to sum it up.

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Some really interesting looking industrial landscapes from photographer Edward Burtynsky.
Edwardburtynsky.com
Blog.ted.com

A desert Oil Field that's been set alight is something I'd wish for.

Nergal01 wrote:

IbizenThoth wrote:
Swedish naval base in Musko?

Hm, I remember ACX have similar kind of naval base.

Bonus point for guessing how *big* the explosion is when you put a single missile into the cave's mouth.

Here's a kind of 'nation' I'd like to see:
a wasteland that was used to be a sprawling huge metropolis before the war, it's now a 'nation' populated by high-level criminals, terrorists, warlords, druglords, crimelords, human traffickers and such. The 'goverment' is actually a sort of huge Mafia/Yakuza-like organization with their own army/PMC that on par with some first-world nations. A pretty much anarchistic 'nation' with high-tier military strength, to sum it up.

I like the sound of that. Way better than just another slavic military dictatorship.

I'd like to see a country where the government is trying to bring back a long-dead pagan religion, like the Nazis tried to do.

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Maybe not so much geography as it is landscapes. It makes me wonder how the other assets in the game are coming along, such as cities, buildings and maps in general.

Might be totally off context, but:
an AC3/Evangelion (?) styled Geofront that serves as:
a) one of largest human refuge/city before global thermonuclear war
b) also (secretly) housing one of the largest military force on (in?) the planet
c) it's so high-tech that the site has its own 90's sci-fi B-Movie style 'Global Ecology Control Computer' (aka NOT SKYNET) in order to restore (re-terraform?) the wasted earth should they come back to the surface

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Canyon map pls

Avalon dam ripoff plz

bigass raiders sphere 4th city map pls

I wonder whether an artifical island/megafloat city could fit in a post-nuclear apocalypse world.

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Nergal01 wrote: I wonder whether an artifical island/megafloat city could fit in a post-nuclear apocalypse world.

The project already started.

Maps.google.com

Imagine this: an abandoned airbase formerly owned by a certain superpower nation, filled with thousands and thousands of still functional planes and spare-parts, and now it's either become one hell of (pick one) a black market/mercenary stronghold/raiders/terrorist camp.