NEW POT Template for Merchant Towns - Simple is Better

The biggest issue i've encountered with my POT is the lack of buildable land . Even if i upgrade my POT id still have no room to fit more or larger lots because all templates have a limited buildable area at entrance and rest is filled with mountains hills water .

For a merchant POT the only area that is worth placing lots is at the pot entrance .... that represents about 20% of the map size ..rest is just scenery, for some .... and a whole lot of waste of space for others . None is interested in opening a store in town boundry 4 ...i know i wouldnt .



While i understand some people like to have lakes , mountains , hills , rivers .... Merchant Towns need a simpler template .

I for one would love to have a simple plains template with forests in which all the land is buildable from corner to corner no hills , no mountains and with the town entrance smack down in the middle of the map ( this way i will have equal size of buildable area on both sides of the entrance . You can split the map in 2 with a river large enough for city water lots , if need it.

We've been asking for new templates for a long time now and a way to move town entrance via a placeable object .

I think the template im proposing can be very easily done and would make alot of people happy . Hope youll give this some thought @Chris . You have increased pot size to Municipality , you have decreased deed placement requirements ..... but those 2 dont mean much for a merchant town if we dont have the land need it to expand .

Give us land .

 

Yea. I think that right now the island templates have the most flat central areas. But they only allow entrances from the sides. Which is wonky.

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But I’d say, flat plains all over, no trees no rivers no nothing. Only 5 entrance points with fast travel. That is it.
Maximum sandbox with no obstacles.

One entrance in center of map with default crier/bank.
The rest one third in from edge in each compass direction (N E S W) for suburbs.

That way it wouldn’t take @Sannio more than a few hours to make it and add it.

 

Agree ...even for non-merchant towns, there's far too many areas that you can't do anything with, or nuisance elevated/sunk areas that just make you waste huge swaths of space regardless of template. When you place a marker, it 'flattens' all the foliage/rocks/etc. on the spot anyway. That being the case, we could do with far less restrictive placement. I could give countless examples of problem spots that are a bit baffling. Many of these have been reported, including the sinkhole that you can still get stuck in, right near the central/wagon part of the desert template.
I'd love to see a giant, flat area - let players choose the roads, trees, etc. If you want to have scenery/elevations as backdrop - great - but I'd love to see like 80% of the buildable land be contiguous.

 

I am still for an intermediate technology that is a foundation for a lot marker.
Conceptually, you could lay it down on an uneven section of the map and then lay a lot marker on top of it.

Visually, this could be an earthwork surrounded by lumber with pinnings on the sides, or rock walls.