Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to share some progress were making on the next update, tentatively called Infrastructure II. Itll include some new stuff and also lay some groundwork for our future AI Rivals update. Heres a preview of whats coming up:

Firehouse, Wooden Gate, and more:
Were adding a few new infrastructure themed buildings for this update. Weve got a a Firehouse coming up that employs very effective professional firefighters. Were also adding a wooden gate:


Map Generation Rework + Size Increase
The AI rivals update needs a lot of tech changes and well be rolling some of those out early as we finish them. The first early tech change were launching for this Infrastructure II update is a rework of the map generation.

We're working on a new algorithm based on your feedback, with these goals in mind:

• Guarantee landmasses are not too close to each other, aiming for minimum 10 tile distance
  
• Landmasses guaranteed to be above a minimum size
  
• More interesting landmass shapes
  
• Bias fertile farmland towards water
  
• Higher chance of interior lakes, bays, and setting up rivers.
  
• Total map size a bit bigger, and the number of usable tiles (tiles that arent deep water) will increased compared to the current version.