NEW MAP

[Pollux]

Let us be realistic here, you do not have to be a genius to work out the nicer the map the lower the players FPS. Firstly yes Pines will have a lower FPS than V2D and V2D Sexy, however I and many others are willing to sacrifice a few FPS for a decent map. The way I look at it is that you have to have a middle ground. If we could get a map that looked lovely and had great FPS it would be perfect however that probably wont happen. So I am willing to sacrifice a few frames just for a better looking map. Both V2D and V2D_Sexy have better FPS but look horrible and have less Roleplay opportunities. So I know which one I want.

Does Pine really have more rp opportunities though? I would argue v2d has more rp capability over Pine anyway. V2d has more buildings than Pine in the city and is half the size (literally half).

Pine is going to have the same problems v2p have. It is too spaced out. What is going to end up happening is we are going to make a "city center" where people will only roleplay at (Which is currently outside of the nexus and the 3 shops beside it). And the rest of the city will not see use other than special roleplays here and there.

The reason I feel v2d is better than pine is this aspect. The buildings in the city are condensed to a point where interactions are going to be constant. All buildings will be used because they are all visible from the main road. So from the aspect of city, V2d is miles ahead of Pine. It is smaller and has more buildings.

Next the outside of the city.

Pine has the aspect of the circuit style road with the highway which gives police chase rps a good experience. V2d is only the single street which is bad in the sense of cop chases.  

Pines lake is also nicer than v2ds, however, if we are talking sexy's I would say they are similar. So I would say Pine has a better/equal lake depending on which v2d. And Pine has the better road system than v2d.

Now if we look at the rest of the map. I think both sexy and v2d have the better industrial area. MTL on v2d is the best mtl out of all the evocities. V2d and sexy both have a villa area while there is really no substitution on Pine that I have at least seen in my walkthrough, but you can correct me if I am wrong.

There is no slum area in Pine either (Unless you consider the half house area the slums). The slums are in my opinion the worst out of the Evo's on v2d.

I dunno. The only defense I understand out of all the ones I have seen for pine are removing certain updates (Which no storms or boats isnt that big of a deal in comparison to other removals) and not wanting to go backwards. Going backwards makes no sense to me either. We have used the same maps every switch. V2d / V33 / V2p. Those are the only maps we have used on FL. 

I would love for someone to reply to me. Either you Joe Joe or someone else. Tell me why Pine has better areas than v2d. (Not nicer looking, better used) Also, I would like to point out I didnt even bring up FPS. My argument of v2d or sexy is pure optimization.

Mostly going to be talking about the city here, as I feel like that has always been where roleplay has been centered around and where the most player interaction will happen. Will be talking about dupes as that's what makes fearless what it is.

I really do not like the shop layouts on V2D. I've flown around the map seeing where i'll be able to make a few dupes on and at almost every shop my options are limited by annoying world props. These world props are not removable either so we can't simply just get rid of them (tested on sexy, assuming same on V2D). For example that annoying shop on mainstreet with the stupid racks is going to be pretty useless just because it limits me so much (also the racks look terrible and it would take a lot of props to make them pretty). Keep in mind my style of dupes is more modern/futuristic, which is really hard considering the textures in some of the shops. The only way I see me being able to make something nice is a complete makeover of the exterior and interior of a shop on V2D which will be hard with 40 props. On pines I see nice open shops with working shutters (I really love the shutters). Yes, it's a bit empty but it allows so much room to build whatever on earth you want, something that makes fearless what it is. I wouldn't need to give the exterior a full makeover as it's already in a nice, pretty and modern looking style. Pines just allows me so much room to work with and be creative while V2D does nothing but limit me. 

On V2D_Sexy they removed cub foods for no reason at all, I can see myself working around cub foods on V2D though. That's really the only spot alongside the clothing store I can see myself able to make things on. I also really love the highway on pines, it seems perfect for some sort of toll-booth on it (which is just a mess in the tunnels on V2D, we all know how checkpoints work out there). The only downside is the nexus on pines which I see myself having to be a bit creative to make it look nice with one of my defences (which i've become a bit known for I guess).

I feel like it will be a lot harder to create good looking dupes on V2D compared to Pines, as it's a lot more restrictive in terms of what we can do. We have some very good and creative builders on FL and we really can't ignore them, as they really help shape RP.

EDIT: If pines wins I think i'll spend the first week just making public dupes, as it's so important in creating RP sits and having a "good" shop. Also because I think the map will seem a bit empty without dupes (which isn't a bad thing)