Simulating a Fictional History on MARS: 4500+ Years Timelapse on a Terraformed Red Planet

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Ай бұрын

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Welcome! Today's map is a special treat! MARS!!! ❤️ The basis is a map of Mars posted on Reddit which Emeraldpopcorn submitted over on the Discord a few months ago when I was improving and testing the world map generator.
Mars geography (i.e. the actual real life geography, measured by space probes and released by space agencies like NASA, which is the basis for this map), if it's given water will produce a planet in which half the world is land with a single large ocean around the red planet's North Pole. This is a bit too much habitable land for the simulator to handle smoothly, but I solved this by making the climate just a bit colder than Earth, so that it'd produce large ice caps shrinking the habitable land on the southern hemisphere to more manageable proportions.
As I wrote in the description of last week's video, at the moment there's a definite lul in development for me. At the end of the day, this is still a hobby project and right now my IRL responsibilities are taking up almost all my time. I'm still improving things, but it's small quality of life stuff, sometimes just cleaning up code without actually changing functionality. So the simulator itself isn't too much different from what it was in the last video, or what it will be in the next. Hopefully this awesome map will make up for that. ❤️
As always, thank you all so much for watching, liking, and subscribing!!! Let me know if you want to see more Mars in the future!
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Terraformed Mars by Daein Ballard - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Music credits:
Crusade Heavy Industry by Kevin MacLeod
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Continue Life by Kevin MacLeod
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@ThatZommy Ай бұрын

rip nirathi, it was a contender

@keterpatrol7527 Ай бұрын

Me watching Nirathi slowly wither away into nothingness:

@showman9619 Ай бұрын

fall of Constantinople doesn't even compare to the fall of Nirathi

@marieerichsen Ай бұрын

I know it's probably just a weird fluke of colonization mechanics, but Tiri at the end really kinda makes it look like alien brainworms arose from the ground and infested half of the population. 😅

@FWHSimulator Ай бұрын

Haha, yes! I found it quite appropriate 😂 For anyone wanting to be spoiled by the sausage making: ... ... Mechanically, it's because Tiri is a very tiny kingdom on the eastern hemisphere that gets super lucky and takes control of the whole Zvonezavodsk Commonwealth by a sneak naval invasion of its capital, conquistadors-style. However, subsequently they don't actually have the power to maintain control of the Commonwealth's territory so it becomes a very chaotic sequence of secession and reconquest. 😂 But it's totally actually alien brainworms that first took over Tiri and then tried to conquer the world. 🕵🪱

@petersmythe6462 Ай бұрын

Kingdom of Tiri going on a fucking world conquest speedrun.

@kwdrat3050 Ай бұрын

The country of Suji was evolved since the XII centure. Their origine place is placed in west from the current location (1:42), but they were stuffed to the east by other countries (0:58 1:00 1:48 3:58).

@FWHSimulator Ай бұрын

Ohhh, cool! Awesome detail!

@aksmex2576 Ай бұрын

It ended in the worst spot possible! Kingdom of Tiri was gonna world conquer.

@andreasgrosse2766 Ай бұрын

Why did technology advance so rapidly? Its the first time i see purely red bars

@FWHSimulator Ай бұрын

The actual technology mechanics are pretty complicated. Because technology is actually tile-based, not national or global. Red and Blue technology are connected by some mechanics but otherwise independent (purple just means BOTH red and blue have been discovered, it's not its own thing). Dependent upon the map, its climates, and the way wars and politics go red technology might advance faster than blue or vice versa. The white technology (representing modernization and early industrialization) is only unlocked at max blue technology. That's why it only appears at the end. The simulation ends 50 years after max technology has been reached by any tile. (That's why the technology bar works as it does, it's a poor representation of the technological advancement in the world, but it's a good indicator of how close the simulation is to ending as it needs to first get to max blue and then to max white.)

@gate8475 Ай бұрын

This is so sick, countries on Mars, awesome, feel bad for Nirathi, lasted long, also, in my opinion the island in the middle has the best strategic location, its protected from invaders, in a moderate climate, yes the ocean would probably make the northern shores stormier and cooler, but could be equivalent to UK, i was expecting the local kingdoms there to eventually unite and become a country and conquer others. Also interesting to see the Hellas Planitia region to be inhabited, eventough I think it would be a body of water too if Mars had an ocean, or just a large depression

@FWHSimulator Ай бұрын

Thank you! Poor Nirathi indeed, a real Roman Empire lost there 😢❤ The central island was actually in a great position for a moment there. Zvonezavodsk was a country on that island and it led the revolution that toppled Obratoslava. But then Kingdom of Tiri naval-invaded them from across the world and everything went haywire. 😆 Hellas Planitia was fun. The map I used for this for some reason sort of filled most of the basin back up. But I might have been working on a Mars map that improves on that, for some future video at some point. 👀

@thebetterbutter709 Ай бұрын

Hello, great video as always. I was looking at the economy tab and realised some of the provinces/member states lit up brightly, which coincided with large polity conquests. Is this some sort of "golden age" mechanic? It seems to be a driving force in agglomeration of regional states. An example of this would be the period between 3175 and 3200, where it manifests through a -13% decrease in global population due to the previously mentioned event happening on Commonwealth of Nirathi. The capital, Bhopaada, is severely depopulated (3-fold) which is analogous to the effect of the Black Plague in Europe. Once again, I admire your very complete simulations, full of interesting details. This is fantasy after all, so no need for it to be extremely precise, I'm just very intrigued by the inner workings of it and am impatiently waiting for a public or payed release. :)

@FWHSimulator Ай бұрын

That's a great comment, thanks so much for watching with such attention to detail! I try to make something that rewards paying attention like that. ❤ The "golden age" mechanic you're noticing is a combination of conquerors levying tax and redistributing the wealth among their own lands, and the dividends of peace that follows large conquests. Overall, it's set up so that peace is NOT a zero-sum game. Peace and trade benefits everyone, but it benefits polities at the top of the subject-liege hierarchy more than others. I've done my best to double-check the time period you describe and I think you're right. I'm also not seeing any cause that could explain the population drop other than either a plague or a massive drought. Or both. 👍 (droughts differ from plagues in that plagues spread as you might expect, and droughts just hit a specific area with lasting impact.)

@thebetterbutter709 29 күн бұрын

@@FWHSimulator Very interesting! I find it fascinating to learn about these hidden mechanics, their impacts are local but add up to make the greater picture. Just goes to show how much effort you put into this! 🏆

@berniuszow7291 Ай бұрын

I want to see a continuation of this

@sube_wa_tame Ай бұрын

Amazingly, Mars has a much higher percentage of land than Earth, but a much smaller percentage of deserts!

@FWHSimulator Ай бұрын

The climate generation isn't suuuper scientific, to be honest. It's reasonable, but please don't complain if you go and terraform Mars in real life and it ends up looking different! 😜

@power0795 Ай бұрын

Great work as always

@FWHSimulator Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@chimera9818 Ай бұрын

No one , kingdom of tiri: 🤪

@theredtechnician Ай бұрын

Tiri, a country expanding faster than it can fall apart

@chimera9818 Ай бұрын

@@theredtechnicianI decided to look when it started and it seems to be a city state than conquer everything very fast than experience a never ending civil war and breaking away

@FWHSimulator Ай бұрын

@@chimera9818 Yes, exactly! It's because Zvonezavodsk had its capital on the coast of the big island. Tiri basically took it and the empire by sneak attack conquistadors-style, but it bit of more than it could chew and had real trouble keeping its holdings after that. 😆

@soopy6667 Ай бұрын

I stand by the proud and sovereign nation of nirathi until I am slain in the heart of battle

@Mix-xn9lc Ай бұрын

1:31 прикол, народ Кисловодска, я был в этом городе)))

@user-vy2qb3st3s Ай бұрын

really good!

@irene_deneb Ай бұрын

I love this.

@Jake1702 Ай бұрын

This channel is fucking amazing. How did I not find it sooner?

@user-bs9vo8eu2s Ай бұрын

Are rivers purely for beauty or do they influence what is happening? And as always, thanks for the video.

@FWHSimulator Ай бұрын

Thank you for watching! Rivers aren't purely for beauty, but their impact is fairly low. They improve the habitability and defense of a tile, but there's no river-travel mechanic or anything that complicated at the moment. The biggest impact rivers have is that if they run through a desert, they make those tiles habitable as fertile floodplains.

@user-bs9vo8eu2s Ай бұрын

@@FWHSimulator Thank you.

@robert-janthuis9927 Ай бұрын

@@FWHSimulator Yeah I was wondering about this as well because you have this major inland sea on the eastern hemisphere that I feel like would result in very rapid colonization of at least its coast a bit in the style of the Greeks and Phoenicians in the Mediterranean in our history. On an other note, do you have any idea why large parts of the map end up being uncolonized even at the end? That seems very weird as it's effectively just free land waiting for whomever shows up first.

@FWHSimulator Ай бұрын

@@robert-janthuis9927 The thing that most slows the simulation down is the amount of tiles being simulated. So it's intentionally designed to be restrictive. Flavor/RP-wise, there would be hunter-gatherers and small or semi-nomadic settlers living in all habitable climates. But that's just too much to simulate at the level of complexity I'm doing. So the focus is on more serious agricultural development and settlement. There's a frontier mechanic where once modernization/industrialization happens (white technology) states that have unlocked it can take control of wilderness tiles without fully settling them. Allowing them to extract local resources. But in general it's a thing where program constraints overrule realism. It would be realistic to have much more of a sliding scale of slowly growing population densities. But because it's very all-or-nothing, a tile is either fully simulated or it's fully wilderness, the design is for harsher, more inland locations to stay wilderness for longer and only get controlled late in the simulation, if at all. Hope that explains the mechanic and the design choices a bit. Thanks so much for watching and commenting!!! ❤

@Terramorph_2784 Ай бұрын

Out of all of these colonies which one did you personally think should've won first place at the end? For me it's Melis

@houselemuellan8756 Ай бұрын

Now do venus

@FWHSimulator Ай бұрын

👀

@houselemuellan8756 Ай бұрын

The discord link doesn't work. When I clip the invite the browser just sends me to the playstore to download the discord app even tho I've already had it installed

@FWHSimulator Ай бұрын

Looks like you made it on after all. Lemme know if there's still any trouble 👍

@Grant_from_Ghost_opss Ай бұрын

How did you do this it is so cool😮

@FWHSimulator Ай бұрын

Thank you!!! This is a simulator I've been programming as a hobby project for almost five years now. 👍 I program the simulator, and then I have it create images which I turn into videos using video editing software. There's no public release of the simulator at this time, sorry. ❤ As this is currently still a hobby project, development goes in fits and starts as my real life obligations allow, so I release videos to show progress and cuss I think the videos are cool and I like making them. 😄

@equilibrum999 Ай бұрын

Me came from dhe Yur Khlann, me be great sage, me teachet Yur Isth tha wellbeings of tha universe. next could do the Jupithaawr's Fiktionar Hajstorii.

@ademile_0973 Ай бұрын

I have a question how do you do this? Is a very interesting thing to look at.

@FWHSimulator Ай бұрын

Thank you, I'm glad you find it interesting! ❤ My videos show a simulator I've been programming as a hobby project for almost five years now. I program the simulator, and then I have it create images which I turn into videos using video editing software. There's no public release of the simulator at this time, sorry. ❤ As this is currently still a hobby project, development goes in fits and starts as my real life obligations allow, unfortunately. But all the positive comments here and on the discord these past years have kept me motivated to keep at it no matter what. 💪

@Jpteryx Ай бұрын

Wow, super cool simulation. Does the program incorporate polar distortion and the smaller size of Mars compared to Earth?

@FWHSimulator Ай бұрын

Thank you! ❤ And I'm afraid not on polar distortion and planet size. Trying to simulate actual spherical surfaces gets real hard really quickly, and I'm not that great of a programmer, so I decided early on to just focus on simple, unrealistically cylindrical maps and call it a day. 😂 Would be cool though if at some point I get the ability or funds to make a proper 3D engine and all that. 💭

@Jpteryx Ай бұрын

@@FWHSimulator Maybe a simple way to model sphericality would be to let the rate of horizontal movement between tiles and the amount of "stuff" each tile can hold vary based on latitude. Specifically, the rate of horizontal movement should be proportional to 1/cos(x) where x is the latitude, and the amount of stuff in each tile should be proportional to cos(x). Alternatively, you could slice up the map like an interrupted sinusoidal projection, but that might not be as visually pleasing for viewers.

@FWHSimulator Ай бұрын

@@Jpteryx Yeah, if I wanted to add more complexity probably making tiles relative based on longitude and latitude would be a good start. Alternatively, I've seen some people who basically simulate a cube instead of a cylinder and project the cube onto a sphere. 😂 But for now cylindrical maps work well enough for what I'm doing. 👍

@jamesgabor9284 Ай бұрын

So how in depth do you plan to go with this simulation? Will you ever publish it?

@FWHSimulator Ай бұрын

Right now, my next major development milestone is to release a World Explorer game that lets players travel through and explore the history of the world the simulator generates. Long-long-long term I'd like to release the simulator on its own, but at the present the World Explorer is a more realistic goal for me. 👍❤

@jamesgabor9284 Ай бұрын

@@FWHSimulator that sounds incredibly interesting! I appreciate all your hard work and effort into making this game and videos. If I had to give any suggestions, I’m curious about what would happen on a gargantuan sized map. Anyways whether this happens or not I’ll be continuing watching your videos! ❤️

@FWHSimulator Ай бұрын

@@jamesgabor9284 Thank you! ❤ I tried different map resolutions at one point, there's at least one video of that on the channel. But at the end, bigger maps means more processing time and thus a slower running simulation. Which effectively means a less complicated simulation in the long run. So that's why I settled on a map size that's the right sweet spot for me and focus on developing for that. 👍

@0Kubus0 Ай бұрын

What game is it? Is it a game?

@FWHSimulator Ай бұрын

This is a hobby project for me where I've been slowly coding this simulator over the past four-and-a-half years. There's no release version as of yet, as I sometimes have to take long breaks as real life responsibilities take precedence. 😓 I have long-term goals for releasing things, but I don't want to make promises that I can't keep and disappoint people. ❤

@0Kubus0 Ай бұрын

@@FWHSimulator ok

@TumbleTrashOfficial Ай бұрын

Where do we get this simulator?

@FWHSimulator Ай бұрын

It's my own project and there's no release at this moment, sorry! Work can be slow as it's still a hobby project at this time and real life stuff often gets in the way ❤

@plutonian2770 Ай бұрын

Is the simulator available for download?

@FWHSimulator Ай бұрын

Afraid not, this is a hobby project for me and development is slow as real life responsibilities tend to take over every month. I have long-term goals for releasing things, but I don't want to make promises that I can't keep and disappoint people. ❤

@plutonian2770 Ай бұрын

@@FWHSimulator that's valid, real life responsibilities are a pain. Amazing work though, it's really interesting to look at

@FWHSimulator Ай бұрын

@@plutonian2770 💯 Thank you! It means a lot to hear people say they like it, it's what keeps me motivated to come back to this and keep working in spite of real life ❤

@ITT59Gamer Ай бұрын

what is the webiste/game callled?

@FWHSimulator Ай бұрын

This is a simulator I've been programming as a hobby project for almost five years now. 👍 I program the simulator, and then I have it create images which I turn into videos using video editing software. There's no public release of the simulator at this time, sorry. ❤ As this is currently still a hobby project, development goes in fits and starts as my real life obligations allow, so I release videos to show progress and cuss I think the videos are cool and I like making them. 😄

@ITT59Gamer Ай бұрын

@@FWHSimulator ok btw really cool that u made this its realistic instead of age of conflicts where empires spawn after 2 sec

@FWHSimulator Ай бұрын

@@ITT59Gamer Thanks! Yeah, I'm not a super genius programmer or anything, so I decided my niche was to try and do things the super genius programmers just aren't trying. Like being more realistic and true to history, even if it makes the simulator more slow and less polished. 😆

@shipsun Ай бұрын

What game is this? eventually someone might ask that

@FWHSimulator Ай бұрын

This is a hobby project where I've been slowly coding this simulator over the past four-and-a-half years. There's no release version as of yet, but some day, hopefully. 😝❤

@anthonypowell4240 Ай бұрын

What is this game bc I know full well this has to be a sort of game due to there being hundreds of tribes

@FWHSimulator Ай бұрын

Yes, this is a simulator I've been programming as a hobby project for almost five years now. I program the simulator, and then I have it create images which I turn into videos using video editing software. There's no public release of the simulator at this time, sorry. ❤ As this is currently still a hobby project, development goes in fits and starts as my real life obligations allow, and while quite advanced it isn't at the stage where I'd be comfortable releasing at this point. My current design goal I'm working towards is to release a World Explorer game that let's people travel through and explore the history of the worlds the simulator creates. (Kinda like Dwarf Fortress adventure mode, but with more focus on exploration over combat, if that helps.) Hope that explains it! 👍

@anthonypowell4240 Ай бұрын

@@FWHSimulator well then I hope you improve on the game and dont abandon it, it looks really cool Its kinda like world history simulator but with its on twist