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Ship start - 1700s

Since there were so many people asking me about it, I thought I'd share one of my ship starting games.

The map view is a bit of an overview of the largest area. I've used an accurate height map of the UK (the highlands are insane) with sparse towns and sparse industry. They are random so they do not correspond to the actual UK, but as you can see from the highlands pictures, there is vast areas of complete nothingness. The map is 4096x4096 so plenty of room, and plenty of long distances to traverse.

![img](nhje3cg4jgid1 "First picture gives you an overview of year 1861, trains have just arrived, and nothing exceeds 40km/h, but the iron canals have a definite benefit. Cargo wise it is unwise though. The sheer volumes of some production locations (3620+ tons of food) mean only ships can carry these volumes")

![img](gl0lrpm5jgid1 "second picture is the first canal in this game. In the beginning canals are way too expensive, so you dig down in shallow parts, plant some forests and just let it flood. Later you can afford locks and non 0 canals.")

![img](t4bdzoc9jgid1 "close up of agricultural grid and railways")

![img](lpk1cqubjgid1 "overview of some more urbanized locations")

![img](ha8o9pvdjgid1 "The highlands, aka, absolutely nothing and untraversable with rail (I've set realistic building costs...)")

Afer 180 years, money is of course little problem. Although due to the unreachableness of some spots, you can on occasion note down a 100M building expense.

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