Settler Site Location - Progress

[Gazebo]

Hey all,
My biggest task lately has been settler site location optimization. What a project. Things are moving along quite well, and I hope to have a completed version ready for Community Patch v1. You can see how things are progressing below:

Spoiler :

(right click thumbnail and open in a new window).

As you can see, the AI is getting much better at finding optimal locations for cities.

That said, I turn to you, community, for assistance. While testing the Community Patch, keep a close eye on how the AI is settling. If you notice repeated errant behavior (or awesome cities), please post pictures and information below. This will help me debug and optimize the code.

Thanks!
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[Arcaian]

Just found out about this; certainly gonna download and try it. This is looking so much better. Kudos on the work!

 

[White Out]

Settler site location has been great besides that one bizarre. Mountain fortress that the Aztecs founded lol

 

[Gazebo]

Settler site location has been great besides that one bizarre. Mountain fortress that the Aztecs founded lol

Honestly, though, they had pretty good resource access there, and it was truly a chokepoint. It wasn't the worst location - I might've built a city there myself.
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[White Out]

I'm going to go ahead and disagree based soley on the fact that growth would be abysmal early, as almost all plots were mountain. Not to mention that even as you get bigger you're winding up with a lot of unworkable tile .. 7 mountain tiles in total.

edit very cool place for a city tho i cant dispute it. maybe i would have put it there too know whos haha