Root cause of towns (East worst) drifting south: when an exploring soul was
at its anchor with no outward vector, the fallback direction was
Vector2(PersonalityModifier, 1 - Abs(PersonalityModifier)) - and with
PersonalityModifier tiny (+-0.2) that Y-component was always ~+0.9. +Y is
south, so every town's explorers got shoved into the southern corner. East
showed it worst (selfish souls strip resources fastest, so they explore
most). Now the at-anchor direction comes from the soul's identity hash,
spread around the full compass.
Supporting fixes: exploration is bounded to a ~140-unit home range (forage
out and back, don't march to the horizon); private homesteads clamp to
within 120 units of the town anchor (selfish souls sprawl on their OWN
land, not into a neighbor's). Result: every East home now founds near the
east anchor (x~870 vs the anchor's 962), none in South's territory, and
East is the healthiest town.
Also widened the map view (880 -> 1060px) to use more of the window - the
world grew to 1152 but the render was a fixed square, so it looked no bigger.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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