Place treasures/resources on the islands

[Pandaqi]

Every tile on the map can contain ONE type of resource. (They can contain as many players/units desired.)

There are X "main treasures" throughout the game (depending on the number of players; probably 3 or 5).

These must be distributed across the map in such a way that they are NOT too close to each other.

• Pick a random island
• Pick a spot on that island
• Measure its distance to the other treasures
• If too small, try somewhere else. Otherwise, it's okay!

Once these are distributed, resources are dropped across the map. Resources want to appear in groups: if a certain tile has trees growing on it, there's a great chance trees will grow nearby, because it's a FOREST.

How to implement?

• Go through all tiles.
• If this tile doesn't have anything yet, check its surroundings
• The type that appears the most in the surroundings has X% chance of becoming the type of this tile.
• If that fails, determine type randomly (which could be "nothing")

One caveat: it's annoying if a certain resource doesn't appear on the map AT ALL. How to solve?

• Before running the algorithm, pick random tiles, and drop a unique resource on them. This way, every resources has at least ONE apperance.

[Pandaqi]

Both treasure and resource placement will be handled by the backstory simulator.