Citizen / Agent Simulation

Scope

A microscopic layer beneath the macro economy sim (Economy doc): a sampled population of visible agents — not 1:1 with simulated city population — commuting along the lane-spline transport network.

Purpose

Legibility first: players see traffic and pedestrians respond to their city’s layout, more than a fully agent-based economic model.

Agent Loop

Home parcel → job/school parcel, routed over the lane-bundle graph (Transport doc). Simple needs (commute now; shopping/leisure later) aggregate back up as demand signals into the macro sim.

Scaling

Visible agent count scales with city size/zoom as a representative sample; the macro sim continues to carry the "real" population numbers.

Open Questions

• Pathfinding cost model over the arc-spline graph, and rerouting behavior under congestion.
• Ceiling on concurrent visible agents before falling back to instanced/statistical abstraction.