[Map] Eyl Somalia (A pirate influenced map)

[LITOralis.nMd]

Hi,
I actually found PR before I owned BF2 due to this thread. Was looking up info on the situation around Eyl when a friend was on a ship passing through the zone.

I bought BF2 because of this map, I'm really been waiting patiently for the release of this map.

At this point the Devs have obviously digested large amounts of background material and parsed it into a playable BF2 PR map. For the rest of us, there is this video shot on location by a Canadian-Puntlander who visited Eyl to see his relatives:

YouTube - Eyl Somalia Heading To the Beach Where The Somali Pirates Hang Out

And another one,,, unknown origins:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3ntVpuVvBg

This is literally the footpath from the small white boats on the beach going up to the town... where this map took it's exact location from, at to what I have guessed using GoogleEarth to pinpoint the geographic location you selected to model.

A few things, notice the outcroppings, notice the graffiti, notice the old concrete rubble, and the tough part, notice the arid climate vegetation...

Notice they don't have donkeys or horses, you need taller stables attached to the brick huts.

IMHO, use the Insurgents faction kit models, but add an RPG kit, and the Puntlanders need at a minimum the Militia faction Command Officer abilities. IRL these guys have extensive open air radio networks.

It's a strange map though, the Puntland pirates are a bunch of dumb arsed hooligans, mostly kids or young men with no educatoin, without any ideology besides get rich or die trying.

Also, only 1 out of approximately 30 confrontations between pirates and Navy escorts result in gun fire. If this was authentic, we'd be armed with Dentist drills, Doctors scrubs, mess hall ladles, and barber's scissors. That's what the pirates have been on the receiving end of since Obama took office.

[mati140]

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]CodeRedFox

BLUFOR and OPFOR factions:
Nether have been chosen and wont until I get closer to the final. I would love a Somalian insurgency but I'm relying on other to do something like this because it might not be worth a new factions if its not on any other maps. Factions in PR get tossed back and forth all the time and will be decided way later.

Well, if s1 makes Somalian, than thay can be applied also to Ramiel, which was renamed from Mogadishu just bc there was no Somalians... so, making Somalians isn't bad idea. S1 can at least give the current insurgents faction the faces of black soldiers from USMC and we'll have nice placeholder.

[The_MDexs]

I love this map

[BroCop]

Well, if s1 makes Somalian, than thay can be applied also to Ramiel, which was renamed from Mogadishu just bc there was no Somalians... so, making Somalians isn't bad idea. S1 can at least give the current insurgents faction the faces of black soldiers from USMC and we'll have nice placeholder.

Check this out


Also why wouldnt this map be listed for the ARF anyway?

[CodeRedFox]

Thank LITOralis.nMd for the youtube link. These are always helpful!

The only major change will be the the city of Eyl is not in the map. But the village next to the beach will be. Kinda hard to explain but should really concern the players.

[velocity]

Originally Posted by LITOralis.nMd

It's a strange map though, the Puntland pirates are a bunch of dumb arsed hooligans, mostly kids or young men with no educatoin, without any ideology besides get rich or die trying.

not trying to cause any trouble on this or take it off topic but alot of them are forced into this because they cant fish.
the water around their fishing villages is polluted and they have to got atleast 4-7 miles out just to see fish in some area, and if they go out pirates take what money they have strand them in the sea making fishing inexcessable forcing them to go into piracy to put food on the table for their familys.

[[ISI] MatthewF-22Fan]

This looks awesome, I can't wait for it!

[sharpshootertrig]

looking forward to it, too bad we wont be able to see much of that beautiful map, you know with 0.91 reducing view distance and all.

[CodeRedFox]

give it a rest.....its not the end of the world

[Rhino]

Originally Posted by sharpshootertrig

looking forward to it, too bad we wont be able to see much of that beautiful map, you know with 0.91 reducing view distance and all.

lol its not like every map had its VD decreased, only on the ones that had performance issues.

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]CodeRedFox

give it a rest.....its not the end of the world

indeed. BTW CRF did you find this props for the cargo ship you wanted? in the dev forums