Hello again everyone. I’m starting to get more work done again after a good little break, and I’ve just added a checkbox to disable AI tribes settling next you. This was suggested for those that like to play in isolation and is definitely a good option to have.

It turned out to be a major job, as I hadn’t yet exposed any options to configure server settings like that, per world. And when I looked into it, the configuration for worlds was still using an xml file format, and tied to data structures defined in C++ from way back before I added Lua. So over the past few days where I got a moment I completely rewrote all that stuff to use Lua based configuration files. This makes it much easier to add new settings, and allow mods to add their own settings too. Quite a bit of work, but it needed to be done.

With that out of the way, I’m moving on to finishing off the trading mechanics over the next few days. I’ve been looking forward to getting back to this stuff!