Building: Cartographer - employ explorers *requirements: education, to map new areas & find *valuable resources & automate exploration (user input to remain optional), upgradable tier 2 *UI mini-map.
UI mini-map ties into Cartographer building, Togglable (visible on/off option) & clickable mini-map to snap to location, something similar to the Anno, C&C mini-maps.
Building suggested amendment: Allow town centre to be moved in-line with other buildings, very frustrating when redesigning your settlements with no option to relocate.
Cartographer is a cool idea. It’d be nice if the explorers were armed, too. The explore function becomes pretty useless given that those villagers will get killed by bears/wolves.
I’m not entirely sure how large the maps are, but I can’t imagine it’d take all that long to fully explore them. Seems like it’d just be easier to let you assign soldiers to garrison, patrol, or explore, that way you don’t have a building that eventually just doesn’t work.