i do not enter this challenge after all.
First I am not a rookie anymore, participate in that waterfront challenge.

I have built a settlement with this map on this conditions (no valley of death, far from that, I will say; a very nice map) Now when i have finished my 50 years I look at the original entries and no; my town doesn´t really fit in. I suppose I am more costumed to small maps than you guys (havn´t got the patience for the snail-speed and lags on big maps). My map is full and I have a great deal more people than the winner of the most pop discipline. If someone likes to see a couple of screens I can post it somewhere else.