The difficulty I have with the options screen is there is no attachment to a unit in order to anchor any understanding of what the setting will truly mean:

1. Creation Threshold- default 120, but range of 50 to a 1000? That's kind of wide. A thousand whats? Accumulation of weight units over a cell?

2. Path degrades -default 10%- 10% of what? Of the weight accumulated, over what period of time? Confusion. Advice says higher degrades faster. OK, but slide to right LOWERS the number, so is that higher? Or is the higher percentage as I slide to the left higher? Confusion.

3. Slider for Path Spread Speed is locked. Ok... try various things to unlock. Fail. COnfusion.


4. Snow path clearing speed also locked.

5. How long does stone take to smooth? Higher it takes longer. Ok. But now my units are from 100 to 10,000 which is really wide, unless the derivatives of the curve that matter are actually what is in play here and it's not wide. But I don't know... because I don't know what the units are or how they are applied? Are they ticks of a square being occupied or accumulated weight units again?

So that's the confusion part.



In previous play (v1.2) I had three large pastures (areas of open space outside walls) about 900 tiles total area each. Let my 10 or so horses wander in those areas. Inevitably large sections of those pastures were trampled into uselessness. I could not figure out how to adjust settigns to make thi not happen or for the packed earth to reclaim to soil faster.

But I should have to IMO. There should just be a click setting that is on/off: domesticated animals create paths or not.

All the above, of course, imho.