Yeah I thought the same thing

These videos are not live recordings. The simulator exports still frames which I combine together into these videos. I've made it so the years tick by faster earlier on because not as much happens during those centuries as the later ones. That said, the simulator itself also slows down the more tiles and people are being simulated. On my end, in the final centuries a single year can take as much as 10 seconds to simulate. Which is why I make these videos instead of just livestreaming everything 😂

Cool, I can totally see either happening! ❤

Why does that sound like if sony made Hearts of Iron IV?

I forgot the details and would have to look at the code to see exactly how it worked. Part of it is just that it's easier for populations to spread along coasts because there's a sea-travel mechanic for stuff like that. Another part is that I've intentionally buffed coastal spread to try and ensure that most of the world's continents get at least some settled presence after the first thousand years or so. Hope that clears things up a bit!

Yeah, I like the music on this one, I think it synched well! 😁

Some climates are just too uninhabitable. Overall, I don't want too much land to get settled because it slows down the simulation too much. Once modernization (white tech on the tech bar) hits nations who are modernizing can colonize wilderness, but they may not get to all of it before the simulation ends, and some places like the polar icecaps are set to just be unable to be settled ever. Hope that explains it! 👍

@@FWHSimulator Yep thanks for clearing this up!

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The name generation system is designed to mimic real world languages. It uses lists of real world words and names as a base, which means it will also sometimes generate actual real world words and names. So the answer to your question is "yes and no." No, it's not a coincidence that the simulation created Arabic-sounding names and that some of these ended up being real world names. Arabic is one of the several dozen languages the simulation uses to generate names. But yes, it is a coincidence that this particular name showed up at that particular place and time. It's not meant to be an actual reference to the real world place in any way! Hope that answers your question 👍

@@FWHSimulator that's amazing,it adds more layer to your simulations, thanks for answering my question!

The highest tech bar is a bit of an imperfect representation of global advancement because the actual technology mechanics are tile-based (there's no global or even state-wide technology, it's all per tile, as the Civilization map in the 4-way split at the end shows.) The technology bar shows the HIGHEST level ever reached by any tile in that technology type. The colors represent the three different kinds of progression/advancements in the simulation: 🟦 Blue represents societal advancements. Meaning societal organization, developments that lead to greater urbanization and population density, etc.. 🟥 Red represents technological advancements. Meaning invention of new techniques, skills, scientific knowledge. Red advancements by themselves don't do too much, but they make Blue advancements possible. 🟪 Purple is just the overlap of Blue + Red both being present/discovered. ⬜ White is modernization and a high levels early industrialization. It is only possible to start modernization if a tile has reached max blue level, but modernization unlocks things like long-range colonization and other mechanics, like higher longevity for rulers. The simulation currently ends 50 years after a tile has reached max modernization. (That's why the final year varies from video to video, some worlds develop faster than others based on climate, amount of habitable land, etc.) That's why I show the highest technology on the bar, because it reflects how close the simulation is to finishing. Even though it's a very imperfect measure of the state of the world overall.

@@FWHSimulator Thanks!

How does this simulation exactly work anyway? Anyway i think coasts (with some gradient from the bodies of water inward) should be easier to keep like reduced costs. Tech spread should be a bit faster too (or slower inland) Actions in coasts should have bonuses in both defense and offense.

@@NeoWish Coasts give some advantages. It's a complex simulation so it's a number of factors that go into it. But climate is also really important. An inland tile with a very habitable climate is going to do better than a coastal tile that's mostly desert. There could be more features handling rivers and coastal defense/offense though, yeah. It's on my to-do list but it hasn't been a priority. I'm also a bit hesitant at the moment to do things that will mess-up overall balance since it was pretty difficult to get the balance as good as it is, and I want to enjoy that for a bit before I add things that mess it up and require lots of rebalancing again. 😂

It is planned. Hopefully in a few weeks if nothing goes wrong with it. ❤🌔

At the moment, my plan is to first make a first version of the World Explorer. Then, I want to implement a religion mechanic. Once religions are in, that'll allow me to flesh out theocracies more. The rest should flow from there, hopefully 👍

@@FWHSimulator will you show a religions map

@@Mr.CambrianExplosion When the mechanic is implemented I'll have to figure something out to show it, yeah. 😆 It's getting tricky though with the amount of information possible to show, which is a big reason why I'm prioritizing the World Explorer. Since that's where I intend to really show off complex systems like a religion mechanic!

Good morning to you too! 🌅

Thank you! ❤

Prooobably. Primarily because of the way modernization/industrialization (white technology on the bar and on the map) is designed to have really large effects on population and power, on the basis of it normally never spreading all that far before the simulation ends. If you'd just let it run forever, there's no mechanic to stop or hamper explosive industrial growth in a realistic manner, so you'd end up with one nation eventually conquering the world and be more or less unstoppable. The simulation also runs really slow at that point though, so it'd take like a week of constantly running it to get it to that point. 😂

@@FWHSimulator Gotcha thanks for sharing this information!

​​@@FWHSimulatormake it so that nations with similar culture can adapt each other's tech level more easily.

@@NeoWish That's already how it works, actually! Cultural similarity is a big factor in technology spreading. That's what you're seeing on the the Civilization map in the 4-way-split at the end. 👍❤

Yeah! I noticed at first because it seemed to be one of the first notable non-monarchies to hang out in the top three, and was cool to see it stick around so long and all its ups and downs.

@@marieerichsen Yeah, exactly! And the reason a bunch of other Order's popped up in the same area afterwards is because of Piivaraq's influence. When it conquered everything it made local polities adopt its government, which then lasted well after Piivaraq lost those conquests. 😁

Oh wow, I didn't know the cultural/governmental influence also had effects on that level. That's really neat!

@@FWHSimulator really neat! This simulator is the best I’ve seen so far, you’ve really put attention to detail.

@@TacticalAnt420 Thank you! ❤ It's been a lot of work since the first version ~4 years ago 😆

Thanks for watching!

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. 😝❤

Colonialism, in this simulator, is specifically a mechanic that enables with modernization (white technology on the bar). It's not super complicated, modernising states will make colonies out of non-modernized states, and are able to attack across oceans to do so. There's a puppet government mechanic for colonies, but I'll admit it's kind of basic right now. More a placeholder for when I develop that more than something that's very impactful in the current version. 👍

At the moment this is a hobby project, so I can't give much of an eta on that, sorry 👍❤

@@FWHSimulator No worries!

Thank you, that's so cool! Yeah, the simulation uses real world languages for its name generation, including various agglutinative ones 👍

The Simulator really isn't designed for that, I'm afraid. It would just run increasingly slower till it crashed due to memory errors. These things are a trade-of, and I'm designing it for high complexity, but that means it can't just run on anything cuss each tile requires too much resources to simulate. 😂

@@FWHSimulator i need this game :D

In real life, an Exarchate is a government whose head of state is titled an Exarch (the same way a Dictatorship is run by a Dictator). The term comes from classical Greek and there have been various different uses of the term and title throughout history, some military, and some religious. It is the religious usage that I use it for in the simulator. Governments are divided into either monarchies or republics, and then for each there are plutocratic, aristocratic, and theocratic government types. Currently there's no mechanical difference for these later types, only monarchies and republics are truly different (monarchs rule till they die, but republics elect their rulers for set terms and then have new elections). TL;DR: An Exarchate is the highest level attainable for theocratic monarchies. The other two levels are Eparchy (the lowest) and Archeparchy (the mid-tier). What determines level at the moment is just size. So, kingdoms become empires if they get big enough, and similarly Archeparchies become Exarchates when they become big enough. Hope that explains it! 👍 The names for different government types aren't entirely historically accurate, but especially for theocratic governments I wanted more neutral-sounding (in English) terms. So I avoided using something like "bishoprics" or "caliphate" since those are heavily associated with real world religions. At the moment there's no religion mechanic in the simulator, but a (fantasy) religion mechanic is high on my list of major features I want to be adding when I have time again. ❤

@@FWHSimulator Thanks for telling me. I learned something new today 👍

Ohhh, that's an interesting idea! I'll have to see if I can find a good enoguh height map of Titan, but I'll look into it. 👍

👀 Stay tuned the coming weeks!!! ❤

A very good idea

Thank you! ❤This map is procedurally made. I have adopted an open source project called World Engine to serve as a procedural map maker (with some of my own improvements, you can find a release of the map generator on the Discord). Older maps generally used some kind of random generation, but also involved a lot of manual labor on my part. Also, the current map generator allows for inputting custom height maps, which is how I was able to make the Mars map and the upcoming Venus map. There's real life high quality height data for those planets. The map generator is able to take that and generate appropriate climates and rivers and all that the simulation needs in addition to elevation. 👍

There's a chance of that. I don't recall atm what factors determined the chance, but it's not super rare and it's not certain to happen either.