Big Cities only in the wastelands now?

[Arma]

As in the title. My friend and I enjoy the game we play on Warrior however I personally like to settle on the edge of a big city after the 7th night however now it seems that no matter the map seed ect the game will insist on spawning in two massive cities into the wasteland and not in any other zone.

I understand that at least one city should be in the Wasteland as it in the endgame, however being a more causal player I don't like the idea of only having cities at the end of the game. I liked it before where you could get a city in the other zones as well.

[Nerevar]

its random. big citys can spawn in any biome EXCEPT pine forest.

[Arma]

Originally posted by Nerevar:

its random. big citys can spawn in any biome EXCEPT pine forest.

I don't think that is correct my friend and I spent over 10 minutes generating maps using random seeds and every single time it put cities only in the wastelands

[CatPerson]

They changed it. Technically cities can spawn in anything but Forest/BurntForest but they are smaller ones than the Wasteland. For "large/10-16k maps it is:

"Town" can be 7-8 tiles and spawn in Desert and Snow.
"City" can be 10-15 tiles and spawn in Desert and Snow.
"Citybig" can be 28-40 tiles and spawns in Wasteland only (certain T5 POI's may only spawn there, rumor has it, have not tried to confirm it)
"WastelandCity" can be 7-14 tiles and may spawn in Wasteland (I'd guess this is in case Citybig doesn't fit in your wasteland biome patch, or simply size variety but not sure, there are also burntforest and forest versions of generic countrytowns and towns...).

Edit: only thing that can spawn vanilla in Forest is "forest_countrytown", 6 tiles
2nd Edit: BurntForest spawns only bforest-town and bforest-countrytown.

If you want to change bigcity spawning biomes, at minimum you'd have to do this:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/251570/discussions/0/4417549985246544471/#c4417549985246741102

If you want to change min/max tiles any of them can be you'd have to alter all those parameters for the world-name "large/medium etc" sections, in the same file.