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Three New Islands on the Worldmap

Very good point there. We can't add too many of them. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/modding.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":modding" border="0" alt="modding.gif" />
Perhaps we can somehow convince Akella/seaward.ru to help us to circumvent that particular limitation; it's REALLY annoying! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/boom.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":boom" border="0" alt="boom.gif" />
 
We seem to have decided to use two of the islands to complete the Dutch ABC-islands (Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao) and the final one will be Eleuthera where eventually the US can settle if we manage to add them to the game. Now the islands will need to be filled. We already have some code for Aruba and Thomas the Terror has been doing some work on that. Anybody willing to do some work on the other two islands?
 
Nope, because those Island don't even come near to the place or form of those islands we have now. The Dutch ABC islands are the best choice.
 
What kind of island is Vera Cruz? Where is the island, to what nation does it belong? Any other interesting stuff you can tell us?
 
Vera Cruz is a city on the Mexican coast in the Gulf of Mexico, it´s way off the map as it is now.

Looking through the list, I´ve notced other possibilities for the new islands, after all there are stille some places in the Lesser Antilles missing, like St. Eustatius and St. Kitts/St. Christopher. The third island could be used for Trinidad.

Always assuming we can change the locations of the islands on the world map, that is.
 
In theory we should be able to move them, but we probably won't manage until we figure out how to use those Akella tools properly. I'm not counting on that too soon. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_confused.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="icon_confused.gif" />
 
Thanks to the base code of Pirate_kk I am now "building up" the little farming colony of Aruba. With a Native Arawak village on it!
<img src="http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l68/Thomas_the_Terror/Aruba_town.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
<img src="http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l68/Thomas_the_Terror/Aruba_Island_Arawak.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
I killed the guy in the Arawak house because it was an indian house and not a sailorcot.
 
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbs1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":2up" border="0" alt="thumbs1.gif" /> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":blink:" border="0" alt="blink.gif" />
 
There is a lot of possibilities when you look at this map of the Caribbean Islands.

<img src="http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j67/SuoiveD01/CaribbeanIslands.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />


I suppose the question to ask is are we going to keep to the original Caribbean Islands as depicted in the above map or are we going to invent new ones.
If we are going to keep to the original Caribbean Islands , and if so in what time period are we going to place the islands into ?
Are we going to keep the setup of the islands historically correct ?

Some of the islands changed " Hands " so to speak often, for example ;
<u>Aruba</u>
The Cacique or Indian Chief in Aruba, Simas, welcomed the first priests in Aruba and received from them a wooden cross as a gift. In 1508, Alonso de Ojeda was appointed as Spain's first Governor of Aruba, as part of "Nueva Andalucia."

Another governor appointed by Spain was Juan Martinez de Ampues. A "cédula real" decreed in November 1525 gave Ampués, factor of Española, the right to repopulate the depopulated islands of Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire. The natives under Spanish rule enjoyed more liberty than the average northern European farmer of the period.

In 1528, Ampues was replaced by a representative of the "House of Welser". Aruba has been under Dutch administration since 1636, initially under Peter Stuyvesant. Stuyvesant was on a special mission in Aruba in November and December 1642. Under the Dutch W.I.C. administration, as "New Netherland and Curaçao" from 1648 to 1664 and the Dutch government regulations of 1629, also applied in Aruba. The Dutch administration appointed an Irishman as "Commandeur" in Aruba in 1667.

Great Britain occupied Aruba from the years 1799 to 1802, and from 1805 to 1816.

3 nations occupied or controled Aruba over a 300 year span.

Just food for thought gentlemen, nothing more.
 
Really good, except for one detail : the vegetation doesn't fit at all. Aruba is a very dry island.
 
Aruba is a very dry island now, but but back in August,1499 it was described by Amerigo Vespucci and Alonso de Ojeda as an island where most trees are of brazilwood and, from this island, they went to one ten leagues away, where they had houses built as in Venice. They also described it as a small island inhabited by very large people, which they originally thought was not inhabited.
 
..I should really read Amerigo's book one day, one of the best-seller of the XVI century..

Well, SuoiveD, I'm not totally sure that what Amerigo said means the island climate was that much better. If he cared to wrote about brazil wood, that might be just as Colombus who talked of gold all the time - an attempt to valuate his discoveries by stating the presence of a very valuable good. For what I know this tree is adapted to dry or semi-aride climate, and there's still some in Aruba nowadays.

I think the Spanish had decided not to install themself in the island, finding it 'useless'. I might be wrong, but I think in Aruba Dutch exploited mainly salt. The diversity of cactus plants is quite high - that tend to indicate a long dry period.
Maybe the island could have indeed been less aride before, after all a lot of animals were introduced here - cattle, donkey, goats, etc, which might have turned the things worse. But I would personnaly believe this dry climate have been here for a long time. But I might be wrong.
 
Well said, I think the previous SS's that Thomas The Terror posted would suit the island for the game. Giving it that semi arid look at the peak of populance.
 
I wanted to make it dryer looking, and remove the trees, but I am thinking of how to achieve that. I think there shouldn't be a fort on this island. Aruba is also a place for pirates (not as big as tortuga or port royal, but there were quite some pirates there, because of th esmall population.
 
I was thinking to make an island (Curacao) but I don't have the new code for islands_init. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/razz.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":razz" border="0" alt="razz.gif" />
 
<!--quoteo(post=260981:date=Jun 13 2008, 03:52 PM:name=Thomas the Terror)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Thomas the Terror @ Jun 13 2008, 03:52 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=260981"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I wanted to make it dryer looking, and remove the trees, but I am thinking of how to achieve that. I think there shouldn't be a fort on this island. Aruba is also a place for pirates (not as big as tortuga or port royal, but there were quite some pirates there, because of th esmall population.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->I'd like to make sure that we decided to make a Dutch town on Aruba as well?

<!--quoteo(post=261008:date=Jun 13 2008, 05:40 PM:name=bartolomeu o portugues)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (bartolomeu o portugues @ Jun 13 2008, 05:40 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=261008"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I was thinking to make an island (Curacao) but I don't have the new code for islands_init.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->It's on Build FTP in main folder, file islands.7z Good luck!

pirate_kk
 
the fort you see there in the picture, is the dutch settlement. The dutch had only small villages on the island.
 
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