From 57d79daaaa69f6564a334436b7b7b3253fbd7ac0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: RenechCDDA <84619419+RenechCDDA@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 13:37:15 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] ....and toggle it off during tests

---
 data/mods/TEST_DATA/game_balance.json | 9 +++++++++
 tests/overmap_test.cpp                | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 data/mods/TEST_DATA/game_balance.json

diff --git a/data/mods/TEST_DATA/game_balance.json b/data/mods/TEST_DATA/game_balance.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..70bd35fc821ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/mods/TEST_DATA/game_balance.json
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+[
+  {
+    "type": "EXTERNAL_OPTION",
+    "name": "OVERMAP_GEOGRAPHY_CHANGE",
+    "info": "Controls whether or not density of forests and urban areas will be modified with distance from the 0,0 overmap. False disables this scaling completely.",
+    "stype": "bool",
+    "value": true
+  }
+]
diff --git a/tests/overmap_test.cpp b/tests/overmap_test.cpp
index ab28d5fb78375..db1a105da6240 100644
--- a/tests/overmap_test.cpp
+++ b/tests/overmap_test.cpp
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #include "map.h"
 #include "mapbuffer.h"
 #include "omdata.h"
+#include "options.h"
 // #include "options_helpers.h"
 #include "output.h"
 #include "overmap.h"
@@ -264,6 +265,9 @@ TEST_CASE( "overmap_terrain_coverage", "[overmap][slow]" )
     point_abs_omt origin;
     map &main_map = get_map();
 
+    // Geography scaling is disabled when the TEST_DATA mod is loaded, this test performs very poorly otherwise.
+    REQUIRE( get_option<bool>( "OVERMAP_GEOGRAPHY_CHANGE" ) );
+
     for( const point_abs_omt &p : closest_points_first( origin, 0, 10 * OMAPX - 1 ) ) {
         // We need to avoid OMTs that overlap with the 'main' map, so we start at a
         // non-zero minimum radius and ensure that the 'main' map is inside that