This may be totally pie-in-the-sky, but would it be doable / useful to have these type games while the sim is loading to give the AI more information or training on how to do things like place autogen, change colours on satellite textures etc.?
For example, perhaps the AI chooses some tiles with coastline, where it has trouble recognizing boats. Maybe stage 1 of the puzzle could say click all tiles with boats, then stage 2 says click on the boats, then the AI gets hundreds of inputs from humans telling it that these marks are boats and should have autogen boats placed on top.
I imagine setting it up isn’t easy but just thinking simply about it, it could be a very easy way to crowdsource scenery improvements as well as give us something to do in the long loading times.
It might even help the AI get rid of baked-in shadows on the textures, if we can tell it that this dark area is a shadow and should be replaced with an adjacent, properly-lit texture.
Worth discussing and setting up a wishlist topic…?