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Determine district count per size and per type
Port K-Means method to determine districts
Create a district type assigning chain to assure to stay in range of determined district type count
Reassign the type to parcels based on district
Define the city boundary as the farthest parcel away from the center.

Determine commercial building count based on resource availability and cultural preference.

When a district is commercial, assign type based on a probability which is modified by the already built commercial buildings of that type and the maximal need of that.
->Chain the parcels together and calculate one after one to assure to stay within the building count needs.

Separate each region into smaller tiles and count resources and flatness to have an easy time assigning settlement spots and resource building spots.

Implement a society class which will keep track of the population for each city and change it according
to resource availability and growth models.

Attributes:
-Population Count
-Resources
-Health

Add a culture class which determines specific needs for buildings etc.

Attributes:
-residence space per person
-commercial/production space per person
-government/military space per person
-special space per person (religious, cultural, parks, plazas etc.)
-maximum and minimum size for commercial and residential buildings
-resource needs per person per resource
-city walls: at which population size will walls be built
-productivity for each resource: modifies how much resources per resourcebuildingspace will be processed

Make use of Prefab System for cultures!

Add a CultureManager which registers cultures from the asset folder.

Add the possibility to add plugins to the population growth. ->Total population growth would then be the sum of std. growth and all plugins

Use templates to define quests with sector specific features.
E.g. search for a Creature in the forest with the name XXX.
Then spawn the creature in this forest.

Spawn some random NPCs in cities or at resource buildings as questgiver.

Modules to use:

-Tasks
-Dialogs

Add a currency.
Add a value for each product and resource based on availability and need for each settlement.
Add a GUI and enable player interaction.

• Market Creation
• Extend Sector-Usage
• Procedural Quest Generation

It now possible to add templates and generators from cities to the same building prefab!
A possible use-case would be to creating a fence through generators around a template building which will automatically encompass the whole parcel.

Use the Contour-Tracer and namegenerator to extract certain terrain features and name them. Such as forests, lakes and mountains.
Store them in a Sector Entity to keep track on everything in a certain region. Also add the settlement entity to the encompassing sector.

This needs some further discussion.

For city connections, the already implemented system can be used but may has to be modified slightly for the entity-based settlement generation process.

Resource buildings in the outskirts can be connected to those roads by the already defined methods.

Currently only the corners of a parcel is checked for obstruction (whether or not it is above sea-level).
->Additionally, check the corners for their height distribution and call it obstructed when a certain variance threshold is reached.

Added a roughness facet which stores the std. deviation of the surface height per cell.

Make use of the region tiles to favor spots with rich resources and high flatness.

Create an agent and rule interface.
Rules:
Those will tell agents which data is relevant, e.g.: Look for flatness value or tree count in a certain region tile, search-radius,city-distance and so on. They should be separated into conditions and values.
Agents:
First the agent looks at a tile and checks if all conditions are satisfied and then assign a value based on the value-rules.
Afterwards the agent searches for the maximal/minimum value tile which then will be our building spot.

Add small roads between the buildings to get a believable road network.
Add for each parcel network nodes at its corners and one or more door nodes.

Then district nodes will be calculated by building density to ensure that bigger buildings will have a higher chance of being near a district road.
A weighted middle node will be calculated between the center of the district and the center of density.
Assign it to the nearest building node.
Connect district nodes along by following the buildingnodes.
Finally, connect front doors to the district roads.

Instead of using the entity system only for citynames as it is the status quo, use it to control the development of the city:
Store references to buildings, roads, population and everything else relevant here.
Receive relevant events which can affect city development.
Order changes in certain time intervals from here:

• Population change
• Resource change
• Building development
• ...

Upon creation, build initial buildings from here.
-> Modify Worldgenerator to spawn only the settlement-entity and its initial population/society

@CptCrispyCrunchy commented on Thu Jul 21 2016

An overlay was created to visualize the different district types on the minimap. It is a transparent layer on top of the standard view.
The district color is defined in the district-type prefab.

There was a bug where this information was lost after unloading/loading but this is already resolved.