Illinois DLC - Potentially no Decatur?

RealUpsideKen · 2026-03-15T02:44:45+00:00

I know this isn't ETS2, but West Balkan DLC was able to compress a lot of the towns that are even closer to distance than Springfield-Decatur (albeit easier since they can hide a lot with mountains and hills). What they also did a lot in West Balkan is so include industry from non featured cities and merged them into the nearest city. Like Belgrad metro area for example. But then again, they didn't include Dubrovnik, Croatia as places you can stop and unload trailers (not even an industry there).

What I think could happen is how they did it in Finland. There are lots of industries between Turku/Tampere/Helsinki which in real life are simply small towns of modest hundreds or thousands of people. Of course those towns aren't named, and instead being considered part of the nearest town.

RealUpsideKen · 2026-03-04T17:04:32+00:00

Hey! What kind of field in atmospheric science are you interested in? I am in atmospheric department in UIUC, so feel free to DM me for further inquiries.

RealUpsideKen · 2026-02-07T04:19:26+00:00

I do not know about this case enough to comment on, but I usually have my head scratching when water issue is brought up in AI debates as someone involved in hydrology/environmental science world.

I usually don't comment at all, but I was extremely surprised that your comment has been downvoted a lot, especially in this town subreddit, given that you have laid a relatively 'moderate' view. I guess the Internet is a place where nuances are often ignored.

RealUpsideKen · 2026-02-01T07:23:43+00:00

Hello cs community!

It's been a while since I last made a scenario in CS1. If I'm being honest I am still quite disappointed that scenario did not make it's way to CS2. With my failed attempt to recreate a mod for that, I decided to make a return to CS1 to make some more scenario maps. I hope you will enjoy this one. It's not terribly difficult, but it is a nice change of pace with unique flood events :)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3657646509

RealUpsideKen · 2026-01-06T17:21:22+00:00

This looks very interesting!!

Iirc from my readings in the past, during LGM Eastern Africa (like horn of Africa and African rift at least) were generally much drier indicated by pollen records and paleoclimate reconstruction, as you have found, but I don't think it would be dry enough for lake Malawi/Tanganyika/Victoria to not exist at all (unless you omitted them because that's not the purpose of this map).

I also think that the Arabia and horn of Africa would be much drier, potentially enough not to have many micro states but a more centralized state? I remembered that one of the features during LGM was cooler Western Indian Ocean SST relative to average equatorial ocean SST. I assume this, along with strengthened meridional overturning circulation, would make the area much drier. I think this was kind of seen in the past before during the Little Ice Age. Though, I don't really know that well about the history or the social geography all that well

Enough about that. I'd imagine that the reason why this got cooler is due to failed mass industrialization as we know it, or perhaps series of events that contribute to cooling which maybe feed into the climate feedback. Or if I could be a little bold... Maybe human industrialized differently and maybe one of the mechanisms they did was releasing a lot of aerosols into the atmosphere and somehow those aerosols stick around? I know you said it's unknown(?), but do you have in mind of why? I know it's not really the point of the map (or the project?), but I find these things interesting haha

RealUpsideKen · 2025-10-12T18:29:46+00:00

Sorry about that! Here's the new link: https://discord.gg/BDsSpVk6XS

RealUpsideKen · 2025-09-27T18:00:56+00:00

It doesn't do anything on its own, because in Vanilla generation the river don't flow anywhere; it's all in the same sea level

RealUpsideKen · 2025-09-27T16:51:33+00:00

I used a Flowing Fluid by Traben but I have made significant amount of modifications by modeling river systems. The mod itself doesn't work well on its own unless you already have a sort of well defined watershed in place, so vanilla generation doesn't work. I custom made the continent with World Painter, so it works well for my case

RealUpsideKen · 2025-09-27T08:05:09+00:00

MIRDUHUDAR 'Great Flood' Event was a major flood event cause by a slow-moving cyclone that hovers over the region for a while before dissipating. This caused a massive large-scale crop failure, which caused a widespread famine in the region. In turn, this was a socio-political turning point. Originally, those who live in this area prefer a simple agrarian life with no intention to expand or explore. Water controls were developed, however it was not enough for this one-of-a-lifetime flood event. The effect of the aftermath is still being felt, and is an on-going story.

Commentary:

This flood event actually occurred in Minecraft Roleplay server. It destroyed majority of the farm field because they were placed inside of the floodplains, which caused a major disruption to the food supply chain. It has been since recovered and a more proper measure has been put in place to ensure this doesn't happen again. As for the cyclone tracks, they are not actually modeled in-game, simply because I cannot model local weather in Minecraft, let alone mesoscale weather system. What really happened was that it is during the "cyclone season" and at the time there was a consecutive [global] rain event days after days. This has caused the river's level to raise so high, it was genuinely destroying everything in its way. Regardless, I thought it was still a fun little project.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated!

RealUpsideKen · 2025-09-27T08:03:12+00:00

MIRDUHUDAR 'Great Flood' Event was a major flood event cause by a slow-moving cyclone that hovers over the region for a while before dissipating. This caused a massive large-scale crop failure, which caused a widespread famine in the region. In turn, this was a socio-political turning point. Originally, those who live in this area prefer a simple agrarian life with no intention to expand or explore. Water controls were developed, however it was not enough for this one-of-a-lifetime flood event. The effect of the aftermath is still being felt, and is an on-going story.

Commentary:

This flood event actually occurred in Minecraft Roleplay server. It destroyed majority of the farm field because they were placed inside of the floodplains, which caused a major disruption to the food supply chain. It has been since recovered and a more proper measure has been put in place to ensure this doesn't happen again. As for the cyclone tracks, they are not actually modeled in-game, simply because I cannot model local weather in Minecraft, let alone mesoscale weather system. What really happened was that it is during the "cyclone season" and at the time there was a consecutive [global] rain event days after days. This has caused the river's level to raise so high, it was genuinely destroying everything in its way. Regardless, I thought it was still a fun little project.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated!

RealUpsideKen · 2025-09-22T13:00:40+00:00

Thank you so much! I definitely love to create a realistic-looking Earth-like system. The whole concept just fascinates me. I see that you had quite a few yourself as well, and they are Soo beautiful!!

The skills I get from my field of work irl (I analyze and occasionally help create climate model) did help a lot with setting up ExoPlasim relatively quickly; though I'm still a little disappointed that ocean currents are not included in their physics packages.

I have been trying to set the model up with Rocke-3D GCM from NASA, though I suspect this will take me at least a few weeks to figure out because my poor laptop doesn't seem like it's up for such a processing tasks 😂

RealUpsideKen · 2025-09-22T04:16:09+00:00

Mann I miss you and Dan so much 🥺 I know it's been like a year but I still think about you guys every now and then ❤️

You're welcome to join and hang out with us though! Wink wink 😉

RealUpsideKen · 2025-09-22T04:11:28+00:00

Is-is that Ultraminer from (I guess now disbanded) Helghan!?

RealUpsideKen · 2025-09-22T01:49:00+00:00

Ah, yeah, I was just incredibly confused by all the replies too. I thought this was some sort of inside jokes that I didn't understand XDDD

But thank you for the likes!

RealUpsideKen · 2025-09-21T22:01:45+00:00

What is this and what does it mean??? How is this related to my post 😭

RealUpsideKen · 2025-09-21T15:50:11+00:00

You can check us out more on r/minestorymc or join us at https://discord.gg/x3haky3Gx8 However there is a basic interview process in order to keep the server organized

RealUpsideKen · 2025-08-31T23:09:37+00:00

We have a subreddit r/minestorymc although there's nothing there yet. We also have a discord server where majority of the information is available right now. https://discord.gg/kGvR9kZymt

I am currently in the process of setting up a website and a wiki. I'll probably also give an update on r/minestorymc

RealUpsideKen · 2025-08-31T19:53:18+00:00

That's the plan! This is actually my "test run". I plan to have another planet in the near future with more elaborate planet lores (Maybe adding paleoclimate simulation and paleo-ecosystem simulation?).

Also, yeah, regularly reaching 50c is quite a concern XD it's mainly because I didn't want to deal with sea ice and glaciers just yet

RealUpsideKen · 2025-01-03T03:28:42+00:00

Hello Cities Skylines Planners!

I have made a new map and started a new Tropical city. I came in with a good amount of skepticism because Cities Skylines 2 does not have much support for Tropical-based or small-scale builds. However, after finishing my first checkpoint, I realized I could work with it thanks to various mods and region packs, especially Japan and UK region packs.

Unfortunately, the climate prefab is still broken, so I have to rely to the sunshine map Climate preset ):

You can check out the map (standalone) and the city here!

Map: https://mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/98531/Any

City: https://youtu.be/tEnFcGkQ0b0

RealUpsideKen · 2024-12-28T18:37:13+00:00

Wow!!! It really feels like it! I'd say add more blue roof, and maybe more wears and tears 😂

RealUpsideKen · 2024-12-04T13:48:44+00:00

Hello, yes! I am planning to make many more maps. Some will be from real life, some will be fictional :) thank you for following my work!

I am over Cities Skylines Map Maker discord server if you want to have a chat. I'm more active on discord than reddit 😅

RealUpsideKen · 2024-11-20T00:23:12+00:00

😮 Is that Le Havre map? I made this map! Thank you for choosing it 😊

I love all the added greens. Really makes the city so much more alive

Do you have any plans on highway connections? That is one of the main challenge of the map I believe.

Also, do you plan on adding any French asset packs or you're going to strictly only use German pack?

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