[ADO] Tropica, An African adventure Options

[Old Bear]

I am proud to release today the map I have been working on for months now : Tropica v 0.1 beta

Tropica is a medium size island, 17 km x 13 km, located in the Mozambique channel, East of the Africa coast.
Most of the island is covered with dry savana, but in two large basins, some mangroves and tropical forests are to be found along coastal river beds more or less flooded by brackish water as the fresh water left by huge seasonal rain-pours evaporated.
The underground of Tropica is known to be rich in natural resources, from diamonds to gas and oil.
This island having been discovered by Portuguese sailors, then Spanish kingdom has conquered it, to be ousted by Great Britain and France. The agreement between these last ones leading to France remaining the last owner is unclear.
In the 70' during the decolonization era, North Tropica was ruled by a short lived Democratic People Republic of Tropica with a lot of help from Soviet Union, the only visible remain of that era is the long concrete runway built near Banga as an emergency landing site for Buran soviet shuttle.
The French are still holding an air base : BA96, on ile du Corsaire.
The population of Tropica is a mix of peoples from different African area as well as natives and Europeans.
The local government formally elected a 99% is in fact held by CEMTEX and TNT, two major companies looking after Tropica underground resources.
They are more or less blatantly fighting to gain control of all the riches using private militias to do so.

Content/Features/Bugs

Towns and villages:
* 2 main towns : Tropicaville and Banga
* 5 towns : Palmera, Toba and Bangataba, Ghaho and Djoba
* many hamlets along the few dirt tracks
* a dozen of huts villages in Gha and Djo basins.

Airports and airstrips
* one main air base BA96 on île du Corsaire
* one air base on Swatisland Island near Banga
* one dirt strip near Djoba
* one dirt strip near Ghaho

Extraction facilies
* CEMTEX oil rig near Tropicaville
* TNT quarry near Banga


Note about tropica_objets : this needed addon is still work in progress, some feature are missing and some need some more work.
At the moment the object icons are not showing on the in-game map, it will be one of the next release features.


Credits and thanks

Berghoff for his great African Foliage addon.
[ADO] dob for the Tropica_objets addon content
[ADO] GMC for his work and help on various issues on the map
[ADO] Floosy for his work and help on buildings placement and oil rig.
All the Clan [ADO], my game team mates for their help looking for bugs and for their support.

- Banga Harbor - - Banga Air Base -

- Djoba and Passage du Sicilien - - Oil Platform near Tropicaville -

DOWNLOAD -Tropica v0.1 beta - [69 MB 7z] from Armed Assault.info .ftp

[Old Bear]

Here is [ADO] Tropica v0.6beta !

After first release, I have done some changes on the map, and done some polishing ^^.

This version is using a new Berghoff African foliage addon: brg_africa_1.20.
Other changes :
- 2 existing villages extented, 2 villages created :Cruce et Tres caminos, a ruined village and a disused base created in the middle of the island.
- a new North-South dirt track created,
- shortcuts created through the mangroves and through some fences in order to help IA movements.

The needed Tropica_objets is still WIP, the config has been enhanced but is still unfinished.

DOWNLOAD -Tropica v0.6 beta - [95 MB 7z] from Armed Assault.info .ftp

For this release, I must add special thanks to Gutm@sher who ported a Benny's Warfare in "Combined Operation" mode ... ArmA2 and Operation Arrowhead needed to play it.

DOWNLOAD WarfareV2_061LiteOA [192 KB 7z]

[Old Bear]

Not a map update but related to the map ^^

Gutm@sher has sent me an updated version of his Benny's Warfare port on Tropica.
This mission is for Combined Operation only ! You need ArmA2 and Operation Arrowhead to play the mission.

DOWNLOAD WarfareV2_062LiteOA on Tropica [192 KB 7z]

[AndreAce]

Merci for this island, you did a great job, I love it

[TacticalyMalici0us]

here here!
Great map!
Jaw droppingly HUGE and amazingly beautiful.....the mine/prison/army base area is pretty sweet along with the island airports...
My only grief is that the whole map is a bit "bumpy"...nothing that stops good game play, just sometimes makes mission making a bit tedious when trying to place object's I.E. buildings and such.
Aside from that....great job!

This post has been edited by TacticalyMalici0us: Sep 1 2010, 12:56