Adding new maps: Which one would be the most useful?

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Originally Posted by _1SMV_Gitano

True, but rice cultivation does not require it to be submerged all the year, just some months. Thus modelling the rice paddy as a dry surface would not be incorrect.

Also, some of the year there's actually rice growing in the paddies, so you get an aerial view that looks like this:

http://static1.wikia.nocookie.net/__...Rice_Paddy.jpg

As for wet Spring rice paddies, I wonder if it would be possible to model them as very shallow lakes and model the network of retaining walls as either objects or elevated land areas, like causeways.

The main problem I see with modeling intensely cultivated hilly territory, like in Central China and elsewhere in Asia is getting the terraced hills to look right. Again, this might require "hills" that are actually objects, like the Mt. Suribachi object on the Iwo Jima map.

Were terraced hills to be modeled as objects, you'd need 3-4 different variations so that they wouldn't look too repetitive.