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I'm creating a map of EVERY Sims town/city ever! (WIP - Updated 4/16)
keylimepiesims
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Ok, so I just love to draw maps, always have! I spent most of my childhood going through hundreds of sheets of paper just drawing maps out, mostly of made up countries, just because its so fun! Anyway, so earlier today I was thinking "I wonder if anyone has made a map of all the towns and cities from the Sims series (and I'm not talking just 1, 2, 3, and 4, I mean EVERY Sims game, like the Sims online, the urbz, Sims bustin' out, all of the console games, just everything!) because that would be epic!", so I looked on Google and I could only find small maps, with just a few of the towns from the Sims 2 and 3, but nothing on the scale I'm thinking. So, I thought, hey why not give it a try! So right now I'm compiling a list of all the towns listed on the Sims wiki and soon I will start to put them all together in one huge map of SimNation (I think that's what it's called anyway...) And I'll try to make it as detailed and accurate as I can.
As soon as I've started to draw the map out I will post updates here in this thread, I'm really excited for this project and I can't wait to show it to everyone! Anyway, must dash, there's drawing to be done!
As soon as I've started to draw the map out I will post updates here in this thread, I'm really excited for this project and I can't wait to show it to everyone! Anyway, must dash, there's drawing to be done!
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I saw something like that when I was looking on google and did think about making a map exactly the way you just described, by putting all the towns where I thought they'd fit in the real world, but I thought that was too easy and I like challenging myself, so I drew up a rough map and included a few countries from the real world but sort of distorted them a bit so it didn't look like I'd just copied them.
Here's a little preview of where I'm at right now:
You can probably see some of the inspiration from real world countries (Africa, India, France, Spain, Ireland, China, Japan, Sri Lanka, Colombia, ect.) and I've kept that sort of theme going throughout the map. But anyway yeah, I'm liking how it's looking so far! Obviously this isn't the whole map, this is only a third of it, but I'll keep updating this thread as I do more.
Glad that people are taking an interest in this project though, can't wait for you to all see the finished thing!
Well I hope that when I've finished the map that you can find a good use for it within your stories!
Edit* It looks a bit weird at the moment because I haven't coloured in the sea or the rivers/lakes, but it'll look better when I have!
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Just an FYI, I've listed about 200 locations (towns, cities, countries, rivers etc.) so this will be a pretty full map. I'm so excited to see how it'll turn out! I'll keep you all posted.
Perhaps we could suggest names for locations and features on the map?
I have a few: Great Llama Lake
Sunset Mountain
Goth Island
Haha yeah it does look a bit peculiar being the only actual country name xD
But I have kept a few of the country names the same as they are in real life because that's how they're referred to in game (France, China, and Egypt from WA, India, Russia and Morocco from TS3 store, etc.)
Also I would absolutely love it if anyone wants to suggest names, it would help fill a lot of the gaps there are in the map.
I'll find somewhere nice for your names @Swiftlover13 and feel free to suggest as many as you can think of!
I think it'd be much better if the countries were split up a bit more (think Europe). It currently looks a bit weird having multiple huge landmasses.
Yeah I think Lainee is right the size is ok as it is, plus if I were to split the countries up into smaller ones it would get very cramped especially with all of the icons mixed into it, but we'll see further down the line, if it looks weird then I can always change it later on.
That's ok, if you think of any feel free to comment them here!
I'll try it with less and see how that looks.
Yeah I think you're right. Ok I'll leave it like this!
Hi, sorry I've not been very active lately (I've been caught up in other things) but my map is still slowly coming together, don't worry! I'll try and post an update in a sec, just having trouble with the size of the image at the moment.
You'll have to click on the image to open it in full size in a new tab, and then you can click on zoom to read all the names. Hope you all like it so far, I'm thinking about just dropping the icons all together, I don't think they add anything to it really.
That is really cool!!! But where is Oasis Springs, Strange Town and Veronaville?
Veronaville is in Produsha (to the left of the map) and I haven't gotten around to putting in Oasis Springs and Strange Town yet. I still have like 50 more town names to put on my map so if you can't see something then it's because I haven't gotten to it yet.
And thank you, I'm glad you like the map!!