That picture really gets my imagination going.
I put the spawn town and docks where they are because it looked cool at the time and it was within view line of the spawn point... but I came to realize over time that it's a totally ridiculous place for a dock. I've long wished that I'd picked the point just to the north east.
This picture makes that really clear. You can see that the bay is way too shallow for any serious shipping and that there is no direct on-level access to it anyway. Where as the point to the north east comes right down to the water, has deep ocean right next to it, and provides easy land passage along the coast in either direction... even back to the original spawn town which would have made a decent fishing village, really.
Also, if you go directly north from spawn across that land to the big ocean beyond you can see a small area of land that is at sea level. Up the cliffs from there is a larger flat area. In the early stages of Mythruna development, I built so many castles on or near that area and had a small dock in that lower jut of land. One of these castles was even in the very first screen shots I ever posted. It's neat to see it show up so prominently on this picture.
The next stage will be attempting to give the application the same insights that we humans have naturally when looking at this picture. I have a plan for this. It's an interesting problem. For those of you "why isn't AI smarter?" folks, try to imagine how you'd do it if you didn't already see those interesting areas to start from.
