(Terraforming Mars is not for faint of heart. With private ventures such as SpaceX offering new vision of going to Mars and the Mars One Foundation seeking to recruit future settlers on a one-way ticket to Mars, mars-sim is giving the audience a preview of the coming attractions in unraveling the intricate innerworking of establishing a human foothold on Mars. There is also description indicator showing the level of relationship (how close or how adversarial) between any two individuals.
Some require teaming up with others to get done for the settlement. While most tasks are done independently by an individual. We define an assigned role and a job position for each settler with a myriad of tasks to perform. Therefore, we model each settler with personalities, a list of natural attributes and job skills, and a set of preferences (likes-and-dislikes on a bunch of task). There are jobs to get done in developing the settlement.
First and foremost, what mars-sim attempts to model is the professional relationship of the early settlers.