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Sargon1

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I noticed that trees in the terrain mapmode are distributed extremely unevenly. What I mean by that is that some places are entirely covered in dense forests, while others are barren of any signs of arboreal life, and there is almost nothing in between. The worst offender is China, with some south provinces choking under the growth and some others totally devoid if trees, while there is almost literally not a single tree from the Yangtze up. I post screen of China for reference, but pretty much the entire map is designed this way. While at some places, like the Sahara, Mongolia or the Himalayas, the complete lack of trees may indeed reflect the reality or come very close to it, for most of the world, this simply wasn't and isn't the case, there are always some trees growing in an area, and the map should reflect that.

Thoughts?

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True, but my biggest problem with their tree distribution is that fact that northern Siberia and northern Canada have trees on the map in tundra-like areas. Nunavut, Baffin, Northern Quebec, and much of the entire north of Siberia needs to have NO trees.

Perhaps a new "permafrost" landscape?
 
This was changed a while back to be this way to make it easier to see what the province terrain is by actually looking at the map (something that was more or less impossible before when trees where in small amounts everywhere) and is unlikely to be changed.
However the second point brought up here, provinces being assigned the wrong terrain, is something that can be bugreported (preferably with some source) to have it changed.
 
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This was changed a while back to be this way to make it easier to see what the province terrain is by actually looking at the map (something that was more or less impossible before when trees where in small amounts everywhere) and is unlikely to be changed.
However the second point brought up here, provinces being assigned the wrong terrain, is something that can be bugreported (preferably with some source) to have it changed.
I do like to point out that in the Cologne province you can barely see the unfinished Cathedral due to all the trees. I hope that's not supposed to be the case.
 
This was changed a while back to be this way to make it easier to see what the province terrain is by actually looking at the map (something that was more or less impossible before when trees where in small amounts everywhere) and is unlikely to be changed.
However the second point brought up here, provinces being assigned the wrong terrain, is something that can be bugreported (preferably with some source) to have it changed.
As a query, is it intentional that parts of the Eastern Seaboard of the US are Savannah terrain type?