Overpopulated portions of the map...

[RichCotte]

I posted this in another location and was asked to bring the issue here: 

I fully understand that the map is in early access, but I wonder why ED is wasting time, effort, and processing power to artificially populate areas of a map that should be mostly vast, uninhabited desert, with small pockets of population.

The area that I call out in my other post lies around 34-04-43N 44-35-23E. This is the old Camp Ashraf and FOB Grizzly area north of Baghdad and east of Balad. Flying over it and seeing this massively populated area, where there should be open desert, farmlands, and some weapon storage bunkers breaks the immersion aspect of the map.

I know others complain about the vast emptiness, but that's the reality of the region.

[Gunfreak]

11 hours ago, RichCotte said:

I posted this in another location and was asked to bring the issue here: 

I fully understand that the map is in early access, but I wonder why ED is wasting time, effort, and processing power to artificially populate areas of a map that should be mostly vast, uninhabited desert, with small pockets of population.

The area that I call out in my other post lies around 34-04-43N 44-35-23E. This is the old Camp Ashraf and FOB Grizzly area north of Baghdad and east of Balad. Flying over it and seeing this massively populated area, where there should be open desert, farmlands, and some weapon storage bunkers breaks the immersion aspect of the map.

I know others complain about the vast emptiness, but that's the reality of the region.

I seeva lot of quite modern stuff on the map(like industrial farming with large artifical watering systems) I'm not sure this map is based on 2003, 2007 or even 2015. Seesm to be 2020s Iraq? In which case that area that was just desert earlier might now have been built up

[RichCotte]

8 hours ago, Gunfreak said:

I seeva lot of quite modern stuff on the map(like industrial farming with large artifical watering systems) I'm not sure this map is based on 2003, 2007 or even 2015. Seesm to be 2020s Iraq? In which case that area that was just desert earlier might now have been built up

Current google earth imagery is marked as 2022 and it looks almost exactly like it did in 2004. So, if this is meant to provide a backdrop for a wide variety of conflicts, ranging back to the Iran/Iraq war and before, the it certainly should not appear to be built up and updated with modern construction.

As much as I enjoy the scenery from 15K, looking down on everything, it's also fun to fly over places, or get down in a vehicle and visit places I've been before. When I do and it looks nothing like what it should, it's very immersion breaking. 

[Gunfreak]

23 minutes ago, RichCotte said:

Current google earth imagery is marked as 2022 and it looks almost exactly like it did in 2004. So, if this is meant to provide a backdrop for a wide variety of conflicts, ranging back to the Iran/Iraq war and before, the it certainly should not appear to be built up and updated with modern construction.

As much as I enjoy the scenery from 15K, looking down on everything, it's also fun to fly over places, or get down in a vehicle and visit places I've been before. When I do and it looks nothing like what it should, it's very immersion breaking. 

Ah ok. So not wrong timed map. But some over eager bever just adding too much civilisation.

[RichCotte]

5 minutes ago, Gunfreak said:

Ah ok. So not wrong timed map. But some over eager bever just adding too much civilisation.

Exactly!