What happened to the great lakes?

Noobilite

Noobilite
I visited earth once and noticed that more than anything. North American had a big missing body of water. How in the lore could some of the largest fresh water bodies be destroyed. If you nuked them they would still fill back in.(nukes couldn't even possibly evaporate the water). Lakes tend to recover over time because they are basins for water. They are also at very high altitude. There is no way global warming or anything would destroy them. Not even dropping water levels would do that as they collect water from rain and melt...?! Is this just lazy map making or is there a lore reason they are gone?

I've looked it up but can't find anything on it.

The overall size of the great lakes is comparable to the Hudson bay in total area.(total area of land and water) It's a pretty big oversight. So, what is the explanation for this?

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So, what made Michigan be less handy and made Toronto be less of a giant !? 8)

Does this effect the cheese making in Wisconsin?! That must screw up the local ecology. Do the people making this game have any concept of how bodies of water effect weather. It seems like a pretty lazy idea to just remove giant lakes.
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Captain Thea Kreutzer

Captain Thea Kreutzer
More then likely Fdev just forgot to put them in when they designed earth lol. Then again it has been 1300 years so you never know. Maybe the Federation filled it in with dirt to make more room.
 
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Sapyx

Sapyx
It is, in effect, "lazy map making".

As they are currently rendered in ED, Earth-like planets - or any other planet with seas, oceans or other patches of surface liquid on it - have just one "sea level", and all the shorelines across the entire planet are drawn at that level. There are no above-sea-level lakes, and no below-sea-level land.

For Earth, this means that the Great Lakes of North America and most of the Rift Valley lakes in Africa disappear, while the Netherlands, much of Florida, the Norfolk Fens in England, the Dead Sea / Jordan Valley in the Middle East, and the Danakil Depression in Ethiopia, are all underwater. The Caspian Sea and Lake Baikal are differently shaped as their shorelines are drawn down to "normal" sea levels. Lake Eyre in Australia would probably also be not only full but much bigger, if it weren't covered in perpetual cloud.

One would like to assume that this is not the final state of Earthlikes; that proper hydrology, with lakes, rivers, sub-sea-level salt pans and all that, would eventually be simulated, once Earth-likes become landable.

Personally, I take nothing visible on Earth at the moment as canonical lore of what Earth in 3305 is actually like. After all, if the ED city-map is to be believed, the capital city of England in 3305 is Shrewsbury. I would wait until Earth is landable, before writing off the Great Lakes.
 

GJ51

GJ51
20% of the world's fresh water

Flowing right into my home :)

At less than $1/day no matter how much I waste

Gotta love it

No don't think of moving here - it's just terrible

Gigabit internet, cheap hydroelectric power, declining population, low cost of living

But oh that snow

Just terrible I tell ya - stay away.
 
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