Because most players are from mainland Europe en US, so it's logical they go from maps from those areas. They tried a south american map, but I don't believe it was a huge succes. UK has the wrong side of the road problem as you mentioned, so tricky for a lot of players.TheGazbeard wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 11:28 pm The new crops are very welcome (especially as they're all root crops giving us some additional variation from the grain and legume core focus), but ...
ANOTHER Central European map? Really? It's not as if the vanilla game doesn't have an imbalance of maps for that region (and still NO UK or South West France map - for the hedgerow and dyke field dividers, nor UK for the drive-on-the-left-side players).
Why not look outside your own back yard, devs?
How about a south or east African map with all the plantation crops that we daily import to Europe and the UK?
Or, a Southeast or East Asian map? Their farms and orchards are a lot more than just rice and coconuts - try papaya, mango, lychee in the orchards and pineapple, kale, cabbage, lettuce, potatoes, sweet potatoes, squash and greenhouse fruits in the fields. Inland fish and prawn farming is a huge industry out there. Dairy, Beef, Pork and even Crocodile and Ostrich farming is common out there too.
Maybe even a Caribbean map with a sugar cane and tropical fruit focus?
Or, a non-forestry Scandanavian farming map with challenging weather and terrain?
Or, a Middle East map with per-field multiple crops per year and a need for irrigation systems?
Anything but yet another Central European map - with so many Central and Eastern European maps in the vanilla lineup and modhub already, it really feels like you went for the laziest option when deciding on the map.
Asia has the same problem, Asian farmers are also using different brands as available now in FS, so it's not that easy.
Poeple like to play on maps they are more familiar with, so to be honest, no thanks to Asian, African and Caribbean maps.
But a good Scandinavian or UK map are welcome for me.
