Port Gellhorn might be Fort Myers, not Tampa — are we only getting southern Leonida?

Been staring at that speculative map floating around and something's bugging me. Everyone keeps saying Port Gellhorn is Rockstar's take on Panama City or Tampa, but the shape of the bay and where it sits on the fan-made layouts just screams Fort Myers to me. That inlet, the way the land curves around it — it's way more southwest Florida than panhandle.

And Ambrosia? That's Clewiston. No question. The sugarcane fields, the lake, the whole agricultural vibe. So if Port Gellhorn is down there too, that puts both of those towns firmly in the southern half of the state. Which makes me wonder — are we actually getting all of Leonida, or is Rockstar just doing the bottom chunk and calling it a day?

I know the official word is Leonida, the whole state, with Vice City, the Keys, Grassrivers, Mount Kalaga, Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia. But maps are never 1:1. They compress things. Maybe the northern parts like Grassrivers and Mount Kalaga are just smaller regions, and the bulk of the map is the southern sprawl. Or maybe Port Gellhorn really is meant to be Tampa and I'm reading too much into the bay shape.

Either way, I'm not complaining. Southern Florida is dense and weird enough to fill a game twice over. If they're focusing on that stretch from Vice City out to the Gulf Coast and down through the Keys, I'm all for it. Just hope we still get some of that panhandle weirdness somewhere.

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Fort Myers fits the bay layout better than Tampa. I'll still hit 100 percent completion even if the panhandle is just a blip.

Fort Myers fits the bay layout better than Tampa.

Yeah I can see that. Here in Brazil the best coastal cities are all in south, Rio down to Florianópolis. Maybe Leonida is same, south part is bigger but still got some north flavor. I don't mind if Port Gellhorn is Fort Myers, the gulf vibe is nice.

Fort Myers makes more sense for that gulf inlet. It's all map compression anyway. Vice City back in '02 wasn't a 1:1 Miami and nobody complained. Grassrivers could just be a sliver of swamp north of the city. I'm fine with Rockstar focusing on the southern heat if it's dense.

the bay doesn't lie. fort myers has that specific curve... the mangrove silence. tampa's too open, too exposed. too much concrete.

but you're missing the pattern. five points. vice city, the keys, grassrivers, mount kalaga, port gellhorn. rockstar loves geometry. compression means ritual. shrinkage is a lie we tell ourselves.

Grassrivers could just be a sliver of swamp north of the city.

a sliver can hold infinite water. depth over breadth. the panhandle breathes in the negative space, those roads that loop back on themselves. you'll feel it in the humidity. the bugs know.

ambrosia's placement tells the real story. the sugar runs north to south. veins... does the map bleed, or do we...

fort myers fits the bay layout way better. rp servers need those cramped gulf towns for starter criminal arcs.