Athens Ohio
Hello and welcome to my map based on the city of Athens Ohio. This is a real world build using vanilla assets so that everyone can play it, not just modders or those people with DLC’s. This is also the first city in a new map series I am planning called Towns on the Hocking. This map series will contain most of the towns and cities that are on the hocking river. I started with Athens since it is the oldest and in my opinion, the most important city on the river.
Athens was built around Ohio University, which is the oldest university in the state. It is also home to some notable famous people such as Maya Lin, the architect and designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. and most recently, Joe Burrow, currently the Cincinnati Bengals quarterback and 2019 Heisman Trophy winner for the LSU Tigers.
I tried my best to get the roads and freeways as accurate as I could with vanilla roads and no mods. Some areas might be a bit wonky due to game mechanics and me trying my best to keep mods out of the maps requirements. I have tested a map with a city up to 20,000 people and it performed as well as you could expect, considering the real life city only has 21,000 residents itself. I have provided ample water and power with 4 pumps and drains and 20 wind generators that all feed into the starting square.
The river has multiple water spawners spread throughout and therefor should be flood free. I do not recommend placing pumps along the river as you may drain it dry and get some odd water flow. Which is why I provided four pumps for free. There are 174,000 trees of the new vanilla type. You have road, rail and air connections as well.
