Feature Update (Pink)
Map fans will see the appearance of pink hexes amongst the red over the next few days. Just as a recap for those who haven’t been following the saga, the map is actually active, and is home to some simulated people who are slowly settling on it. In the tradition of coder graphics, the red hexes represent areas where people have settled, the blue hexes are where a group is looking to create a new settlement and now the pink hexes will be representing settlements that have been promoted to towns.
The algorithm for deciding that a settlement is now a town is very simple, but I like simple if it works. I’ll just leave it running for a bit and see how the town distribution works out to see if it needs tweaking. I’ll start adding the ability for towns to expand both in population and influence, followed by the next level of social AI, which will centre on town populations for trading, politics, resource gathering etc. That sounds way more fancy than it’ll really be, of course.
