Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-25129884-20160825161951/@comment-26172435-20160827053239

Imo, both realistically and for pleasant gameplay, the distance between settlememts (measured by adding horizontal and vertical diff.), should be at least four, maybe even more, times the settlement size. If you'd introduce that as one of the primary generation prerequisites, I think it may save a lot of laggy trouble. The only thing to worry about tuning then is the ratio between the different settlement variants. As major rule I'd still say the largest / best protected settlements should make up max. 10-25 % of the total amount of settlements in any biome. That number be highest in biomes that are relatively vulnerable to invasions.