Having been unsatisfied with my previous attempts at drawing the capital, which all desceneded into grid-madness, I’ve started building the city using the historical progression method similar to the way Wesmandy is going. As such, here is Sadiemarkt ca. 1200-1350ish. I’ve only worked on the area within the city walls for the moment, as I wanted to get some opinions before I went too far. Future expansion plans put the central business district stretching from the current center (within the walls) out to Trakẙ de Carrighi̋sa (south of the walls)
For context, I’ve redesigned the terrain for the whole country, of course matching at the borders, but I haven’t redrawn things except around Sadiemarkt and Cape Aritsom (across the estuary and along the peninsula to the north), so thats why the rivers are broken to the west of the city and other terrain mismatches.
–Reece
Discussion
Comment from wangi on 21 March 2016 at 01:13
Silence longer than normal - folk think it’s not quite right, but it’s got all the right bits in the right places and don’t know what to say… ;)
So, … Personal opinion as it is…
Comment from isleño on 21 March 2016 at 08:39
I think it looks really good — wangi is right that it’s hard to know what to say.
For me, this would be the most important suggestion. Jumbled old roads may look random, but they often tend to radiate from and connect between places of importance. So you could move a little bit more in that direction, and if things start to look too “neat” you can always increase the messiness in the side streets: more overly big/small blocks, more dead ends, more crooked alleyways, more gaps where a road is missing, more weird little squares, etc. Lots of fun to be had with stuff like that.
I think the historical approach is great btw, I’m really glad to see more people exploring it. :-)
Comment from Sarepava on 21 March 2016 at 10:39
Needs some kind of castle or defensive structure, as almost all major settlements of this period would have been a seat of power.
Comment from Reece202 on 21 March 2016 at 12:34
I’ve made some changes
Also, I realised that since I don’t have Ingerish names tagged, I should list some translations