MEGA Switzerland

MEGA Switzerland

This map offers a recreation of Switzerland at a scale of 1:10, featuring 23 of the country’s most iconic cities. The landscape has been crafted with a high-quality digital elevation model (DEM) and hand-finishing techniques to ensure a good and immersive visual experience. In addition, all of Switzerland’s lakes, including part of the Rhine and Rhone rivers, have been made navigable.

Swiss trains a pleonasm?
In the heart of Europe lies a land of mountains and valleys, where trains glide effortlessly through the alpine terrain. Switzerland and trains, a combination that needs no introduction, where the chugging of engines and the screech of brakes has become a symphony for the people. From the earliest days of rail travel, the Swiss have been at the forefront of innovation, building tracks that climb steep inclines and weave through narrow valleys. Today, the country boasts one of the most extensive rail networks in the world, connecting every corner of the nation. Build your empire in this beautiful country, where the trains are more than just a mode of transport, they are a way of life.

Map Features
Location: full Switzerland and Liechtenstein with a litte part of France, Germany, Italy and Austria.
Map projection: Mercator
Scale: ≃1:10
Ratio: 1:2
Size: 16.5 × 33 km
Elevation (DEM): 8k resolution greyscale map
Type: Megalomaniac
Number of cities: 23 swiss cities
Size of cities: from tiny to huge. Example: Interlaken is tiny, Geneva is large and Zurich is huge
Location of the cities: manual
Textures: procedural generation and manual
Trees: procedural generation and manual
Roads: procedural generation
Industries: procedural generation
Lakes: all lakes are navigable
Rivers: part of the Rhone and Rhine have been adapted to be navigable with small boats
Starting year: 1850

Cities
Basel
Bellinzona
Bern
Biel
Fribourg
Geneva
Interlaken
Lausanne
Locarno
Lucerne
Lugano
Martigny
Montreux
Neuchâtel
Nyon
St. Gallen
Schaffhausen
Sion
Thun
Winterthur
Yverdon-les-Bains
Zug
Zurich

Notes
1. There are no cities in other countries to optimise performance. You can add the cities you want directly in the map editor.
2. The names of the cities in game are in French. You can change in game or in the map editor the name of each city in the language of your choice.
3. The screenshots were taken with a Reshade preset.

How To Enable Megalomaniac Mode
1. Go to your Steam’s install folder > userdata > (Your Steam ID) > 1066780 > Local.
2. Open “Settings” in notepad and press “Ctrl + F”. Type “experimentalMapSizes” and switch it to true to enable the experimental map sizes. Save the changes.