Project USA: Let's recreate The United States, mini! (major WIP)

[Mushroom man]

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I don't think he wants it PERFECT...

[Ad Bot]

[RMS Gigantic]

I don't think he wants it PERFECT...

But you will need a lot more room than what is provided above to make it even resemble the real deal. You heard the San Franciscan complain a page or two back that the current San Francisco does not look anything like the real thing. That's because the current map does not allow for anything close to accurate.

New York City's landmasses, for instance, are disfigured, as I briefly mentioned before. I have no idea how anyone can fit in, within the currently allotted space for Manhattan, the New York Stock Exchange, Pier 17, Central Park, the Empire State Building, Freedom Tower, Ground Zero, the Bank of America Tower, the Chrysler Building, the Met Life tower, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, Time Square, the United Nations Headquarters, the four bridges that connect Manhattan to the other side of the East River, Pier 45, and its many other recognizable landmarks within such a comparatively microscopic space.

[Tomaz]

If you were to work on team Taxi Yellow (Phoenix and Santa Fe) , Could you be able to work on one of the city's? Or do you haft to work both?

[NewBoy]

bump

[SirLancelot7]

I sorta agree with RMS.  It could be a bit bigger, but not 350,000 studs. 

Also: Florida looks wrong, and I don't even live there.

[SailorMan]

1. It could be longer, it looks a little compressed.
2. WHERE THE HELL IS LONG ISLAND??!!??
3. Try building it to scale to a certain extent. 10 miles= 1 4x4 baseplate sort of thing
4. I am a New Yorker, I may be able to help with that. If I am on when you are hosting this, my ingame name is Sailorman. Feel free to IRC me

[Blaze0]

I'll join San Fransisco and Los Angeles spots. I live 2 hours south of San Fransisco but go there all the time. I lived in los angeles for 3 years and still make trips quite often. I just returned from a week long trip at LA last night.

[Lordy Lord]

As I've already stated many times before, it would be impossible to do an accurate recreation of the United States to scale, including everything. This is why I don't really care that much about landmarks, but more about the vibe of each city. The recreation of SF does indeed hardly look like the real thing, but when you are there in-game, I think one would agree that I've gotten the vibe almost right.

The goal of this project was never to get everything exactly right, to do so would mean that each city would at least be 128 by 128 studs. If we did that, we would end up excluding more areas then we are currently. Which is why I don't think this project will get going.

Most likely, I'll lock this topic and do a private recreation of San Francisco. Though if I have indeed riled up enough people in support of Project USA, perhaps each of the teams can build their recreations separately and we could combine them eventually.

[Smokesta]

No Columbus, Ohio what is this?!

[TMAN7676]

I live in drivable distance to Philly.
I live close to it, and I've only been there like 4 times, but I could try.

[Conan]

I can offer help on SF. Not too bad minibuild skills, but probably won't participate in actual building, more on the suggestion-feel type.

This is going to be ambitious, you'll need a lot of support. Good luck.