So, my feedback. Mostly in the drawing of the provinces, as the locations are generally nice.
ONLY ABOUT RIO GRANDE DO SUL
I liked the locations density, but I think realistically it will not be as dense. This region was not important for most(if not all) of the period and in older games it was always a region with very low density.
Add here my classical complain that this map is based on the municipalities and therefore does not allow to portrait the Madrid and San Idelfonso treaty lines. To achieve this, major changes are needed, so I didn't draw the changes. I added the lines of the treaties for reference.
Changes I drew:
Locations:
- Taquari and Estrela could change: As is, Estrela has both the valley and the serra in the location. I would merge the southern half of Estrela(where is the city proper and is the valley) into Taquari and create a different named location in the northern half, where it is serra. Maybe name it Guaporé.
- The northern part of Triunfo could be included into Santa Cruz, because it is serra. This way would better follow the topology (Triunfo: flatland, Santa Cruz: hills)
- Split Mostardas from São josé do Norte. It's not really necessary, but both cities had different colonization history. I also considered just renaming São José do Norte as Mostardas, but I'm also not sure which one is older. Motardas is azorian colonization around 1770s. I'm not sure about São José do Norte. It was partially colonized with Rio Grande in 1725, but it seems that the colonization was more in Rio Grande than in São José do Norte.
- A lot of the wasteland seems way to aggressive and I think it shouldn't exist. As an example the wasteland north of Santa Cruz and Triunfo is the Taquari/Antas river and, even though it has very deep valleys there (200m in the valley and 700m outside the valley, with a width of a few hundred meters), I wouldn't call it wasteland. It is very livable and can be crossed by an army if you search a good way to descend into the valley. In my interpretation, all the wasteland west of Estrela location and the wasteland north of Santa Cruz and Triunfo should all go.
- The location of Entre Ijuis contains the ruins of the reduction of São João Batista. This is probably a better name for the location(it is, at least, an older name).
- I changed part of Caçapava do Sul to Cachoeira do Sul. This is because Caçapava is the beggining of the Escudo Rio Grandese, a more hilly formation, while Cachoeira, Santa Maria and São Gabriel are mostly part of the Depressão Central. I decided to use this topological separation as a guide for the drawing of the provinces and this implied in a weird province circling around Caçapava, so I changed a little bit.
Provinces:
- I would tweak the provinces map. I believe it would be very nice to have the historical region of Campos de Viamão as a province. It would drive colonization in a more historical way, since the colonization is made through the provinces.
- The reductions and Alegrete province are mostly OK.
- Grouped the region above the Serra as a single province.
- I made the Province of Rio Grande include only the coast locations, as the inland colonization of this region was much later. This also allowed me to follow the general topological lines of the Escudo Rio Grandese as a province.
- Renaming to match some historical names: Campos de Viamão and Campos de Vacaria.
- Renaming to match more topological and recognizable names today.
Escudo Sul-Rio-Grandense is the geological formation of mainly that region.
Vales is the region encompassing the main river valleys. It matches partially with the geological region of Depressão Central. I'm not sure on the name, maybe could just be "Valleys", "Jacuí valley" or "Jacuí", even though it includes other river valleys.
-Renaming to Passo Fundo because it is more centered in the province and historically, Cruz Alta is basically the frontier of the Jesuit region. It's a vague and uncertain renaming. I would like to have a better name.
