[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#3899) [PATCH] Add generator which simulates plate tectonics

["Karen Yeats" <kayeats@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Some opinions:

The results are not as impressive as I was imagining they would be.  My
guess is that this is because the code just gets a heightmap from the
tectonics, wheras the tectonics assume their own shoreline and use it in
calculation.  I suspect some of the "threadyness" that it currently
gives is due to this problem.

Also it is very obvious that it wraps north south as well as east west.
I know that gen 1 does this, but with all the little blobby continents
you can hardly tell; here you can.

My verdict at the moment would be that it is too slow given the results
it produces.  Possibly, however, a few things like the above would
significantly improve the results, and make it worth it.

The gen 8 seems to be the worst of both worlds, almost as ugly as gen 1
and as slow as gen 7.

Karen