I'll be honest I don't like the sound of this. Really don't. I liked Bronze Age precisely because of the detailed simulation. I like placing down the walls and the individual houses. If it changes to civ-like abstracted one-hex cities with "click that button to add walls" I'm going to go look for another game. Because you're basically making a different game. This isn't an update, it's a sequel.
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It's not going full civilization. I left a lot of settlement simulation out of this update because I'm still working on it, and have nothing to show so far. But in essence:
- Settlements will occupy one or more hexes. Each hex has 14 "subhexes"
- The player can place a structure on each subhex, mostly the same structures that are in 1.4.
- I'm uncertain how walls are going to work right now, I'm thinking they may be special, and placed along the 6 borders of the hex.
- Structures will still produce and consume items, like they do in 1.4, but they won't need to be hauled from structure to structure.
- This is the most important change, as it cuts out the overhead from having citizens moving around the city.
- Trade between settlements will function as it does in 1.4.
I agree that this is a substantial change to Bronze Age (hence calling it 2.0). But I think it's a necessary one.
See, my main issue with this is going from hundreds if not thousands of buildings to a couple dozens. With cities now being all the same shape with the same number of buildings -some of them probably being mandatory-, you're completely destroying decision making.
I made that thread to show off my cities because I was proud of what I made. What pride is there in placing a dozen buildings in a predetermined hexagonal shape?