Make cemeteries non-mandatory

[Coolthulhu]

Cemeteries are big, require forest tiles, and thus notoriously fail to generate, even in totally standard worlds.
Our mapgen simply can't handle this specific case - even with a retry. The result is that declaring cemetery as mandatory generally only results in error messages on map generation.

Removed the mandatory count. Also disabled the start location that requires one.
Alternative would be to allow cemeteries to also generate in the middle of a field - football fields are similarly sized and do not cause problems.

I'm getting the errors pretty much every third mapgen
Also http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=14229

[BrettDong]

Yes this is a real problem, I get the mapgen retry prompt every time I create a new world. 😒

[HotSake]

IRL, people will put a cemetery pretty much anywhere they can find a plot of land, including in the middle of a city.

[DangerNoodle]

There would be less need of it if small cities also potentially had smaller cemeteries, which could be potentially be single-tile memorial parks and therefore added to the default regional settings, either in the park list or shop list (park listing might be better).

[kolsurma]

Does the world gen system allow for overloaded names? E.g. you'd have a 2x2 cemetery, a 3x3 cemetery, etc. Or even better, dynamically generated X by Y sizes.

[pisskop]

aye, they can only spawn within a small radius of a city and in a forest. they weren't incredibly common before and now its just causing spam

[DangerNoodle]

I am uncertain why this did not start to become an acute problem until more recently, however.

[pisskop]

because the game didnt spit out debug messages and stop the player from playing until recently. it merely skipped over the item since it didnt always find a city with a forest nearby

[ghost]

Can this be done with bandit camps as well? Getting a lot of problems with bandit camps on low City Spacing.

[DangerNoodle]

The problem with bandit camps is that they are used in missions. Even then there is the risk of mission errors.

[kolsurma]

Should the mission system have check if required terrain is nearby? E.g. If it can't find a close enough spot for the mission, try giving a different mission.

[kevingranade]

I'd prefer allowing them in forests or fields, making them only overwrite forest tles seems pretty arbitrary.

[YourCompanionCube]

Can we please get some version of this main-lined so that i can actually get a decent map to generate instead of spawning in an evac shelter far away from any city?

[DangerNoodle]

I have recently tested a build after having manually set minimum cemetery occurrences to zero. It still would frequently cite this error without specifying what overmaps are the cause.

[pisskop]

The error itself needs tweaking.