Hello and welcome to my thread.
Herein I ask a number of questions regarding these items.
Let us begin with the following parameter set:
[BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_LAND:10]
[BIOME_SUPPORT:GLACIER:0]
[BIOME_SUPPORT:TUNDRA:0]
My initial question is exactly what the number on the end means. From my observations, it appears to be a weighted method of determining in which direction a race is supposed to expand. In my observations, however, it also seems that only the highest number is paid significant attention to. although I may just be doing it wrong.
What I think is happening here, and I would like confirmation on this, is that all LAND biomes are set to 10, and glacier and tundra are then set to 0, overwriting the initial 10 for their special cases.
If this is true, then how about the following?
[BIOME_SUPPORT:GLACIER:0]
[BIOME_SUPPORT:TUNDRA:0]
[BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_LAND:10]
In this case it would seem reasonable, but I would like confirmation on this, that the glacier and tundra settings are overwritten by ANY_LAND, meaning all LAND is set to 10.
Now, let us take Elves for example for a moment.
Elves dwell in the forests. This is their parameter set.
[START_BIOME:ANY_FOREST]
[BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_LAKE:5]
[BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_FOREST:7]
[BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_RIVER:5]
The thing is, this also seems to occassionally block them from engaging enemies unless the enemy interlopes upon their woodland homes. I can't verify this, it's just what I've observed when looking through worldgen. I assume this is due to their lack of extensive biome support.
My question here is that if I alter this to:
[START_BIOME:ANY_FOREST]
[BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_LAND:0]
[BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_LAKE:5]
[BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_FOREST:7]
[BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_RIVER:5]
Will the following occur? I assume that all land should now be accessible for them. They should still remain true to settling in their intended areas. Alternatively, does a value of 0 also prevent them from travelling across these regions?
Finally, there seems to be an issue with [START_BIOME:MOUNTAIN]
It seems that any race starting in the mountains will only settle mountain tiles. They may still conquer other territory, but it appears they may only settle in mountain squares. This occurs no matter what their other biome preferences are. I'm not sure if this is intended, however. I can't imagine that it is, though, given the ease in which it is possible to make this happen simply by limiting the other alternative biomes to mountain.