u/tatsingslippers

What factors do you heavily take into consideration when deciding where to place cities on your world map?

What factors do you heavily take into consideration when deciding where to place cities on your world map?

Edit: Okay. This blew up. Thank you for all the answers. It'll take me a while to go through and respond to them. I really appreciate this, Thank you again.

TLDR: See world map. Where to place cities? Medieval ages.

I am at the stage of worldbuiling where I am about to place encampments, settlements, villages and cities on the map of my world.

I have basic ideas on where these should be placed based on various factors.

My intention in asking this to all of you is to see if there are any factors that I may have missed out or not personally thought of.

For reference, below is a gist of my world:

- Takes place on Earth 250 million years in the future.

- The continents have merged to form the super-continent of Pangea Proxima/Ultima

- Magic exists

- A lot of fantasy races, creatures and deities similar to Dungeons and Dragons lore.

- Countles cataclysmic events that "rebooted" the world back to the equivalent of the stone ages.

- The world is currently in the stage where it would be equivalent to our medieval ages.

- Cross ocean travel has not been discovered yet.

- Most of the inhabitants believe the world is flat.

- There exists a network of interconnecting massive caverns that cris-cross under the whole super continent. Nobody knows exactly how deep they go or what dwells there. (Similar to the Underdark from D&D.)

Attached is an image of how the world looks like. Not my image. I did a google search for Pangea Proxima/Ultima and that is what I found.

My world map will be based on this map. The main difference is that the areas nearer to the poles will be colder and be in perpetual winter similar to our North and South Poles. Also the areas nearer to the equator will be warmer and not go through the 4 seasons. Basically summer all year round similar to our tropical areas near the equator.

Thank you in advance.

u/tatsingslippers — 9 hours ago

Works in progress and my first time painting.

Got these blank bodies from Ali.

Painted for the first time today. Definitely learnt a few good lessons from the mistakes I made. I definitely have much more respect and appreciation for those of you who are good at painting.

Waiting on some soft goods and accessories and I should be done with these 3.

For the record, I don't know if these are KO or legit but it feels to me that the Romankey might be KO and the other two might be legit. The build quality just feels cheap on the Romankey but feels good on the Muff Toys and Wind Toys.

And yes, the Romankey does come with the sausage and eggs. I'm tempted to post pics of them but i don't know how reddit and the mods might react to that.

u/tatsingslippers — 8 days ago

Any tips on get these two pegs back in the holes other than using heat?

Trying to swap out the feet on my Muff Toys Adam and put on the boots.

I had to remove the pegs to remove the bottom attachment part of the original feet (flesh coloured) so that I can use the bottom attachment part for the boots (grey).

Both the pegs and the holes/slots are hard plastic. It keeps on swivelling around when I try to push it back into the hole.

I tried heating them up with near boiling water but they still feel as hard as they are when cold.

I can't put it into the boots first as the attachment is a softer plastic and it will just push the peg deeper into the boot.

I want to try to avoid using hard tools like pliers as I want to try to avoid damaging the plastic.

Any tips on how to do these?

For context, it is a Muff Toys Adam figure and AT Story boots.

u/tatsingslippers — 9 days ago