I’d like to be able to build out the culture/history of this settlement alongside its physical space.
I would like the ability to name things. All the citizens get unique names and homes, but the places where they work and travel don’t. At the moment all the pubs, city gates, and roadways are generic. I’d love to be able to add place names to these things – “West Gate” and the “West Gate Tavern”, etc. Possibly name the Shrine after the first child to die of that influenza wave.
For that matter, I’d love a city Chronicle that could detect major events and record them, sort of a persistent version of the message system. E.g.,
“In the fourth year of the Founding, 36 raiders from the west were repulsed by the guard. Sasha and Medoza were killed.”
“In the tenth year of the Founding, small pox came to Eastmarsh. The dead were left upon the streets. Two thirds of the citizens died” (this one actually happened to me).
“In the 27th year of the Founding, the Amish the Hunter was killed by a Bear. He was replaced by Niel.”