Interconnectedness

The Settlement Map provides each settlement a visual overview of the whereabout of each building, settler, bot and vehicle. You can see how buildings are seamlessly interconnected via hallways or tunnels. The Settlement Info Window provides clues on how well each system is functioning behind the scene. No two settlements are alike. You can make each settlement unique by having distinguishable mission footprints and infrastructures and by ways of how settlers behaves.

Beginning version 3.1.0, each settlement will be given an overaching objective– the overall development objective that drives activities such as missions, manufacturing processes and resource processes

The possible objectives :

1. Crop Farm
2. Manufacturing
3. Research Center
4. Transportation Hub
5. Trade Town
6. Tourism

As settlements grow and expand, either by ways of having more buildings shipped in or being constructed on site, diverse layout would emerge, driven by transportation routes, environmental constraints and economic activities, resulting in distinct patterns such as dispersed, linear, sector-based or nucleated forms.

It’s not difficult to imagine a settlement become an university town housing numerous laboratories attracting academically driven settlers if it heavily sponsors research studies on those disciplines.

A green town may be developed to house a large number of interonnected greenhouses having a company of biologists/botanists experimenting with improving crop rotations and genetics that give better crop yield.

A maker-haven is one that consists of a lot of workshops with machineries providing high industrial throughput and attracting influx of creative individuals to prototype and tinker with tools to produce new parts and equipment. Also, with more prospectors arriving on Mars, mining outposts will be the next frontier and they will sprout up everywhere along a resource-rich basin/region, fortifying the local supply chain for raw minerals.