world map/ colony starting position

[Omenpapa]

I can see on the longterm what kind of cool features could be implemented, but right now, how important is this?

Obviously there is a biome and landscape difference, but does it matter if my colony is close/far to another village?
Will I get more visitors, raiders form those places?
Do we know if, lets say I get visitors from a 100x100 cube around my base? Are there hidden trade routs?
Is the temperature counts for mood/plants?
Does the rainfall matters how often and how much rain we get ingame?
Is it considered a hostile action to make my colony next to a tribe?

So many questions Hopefully some1 can enlighten me.

[Matthiasagreen]

Rainfall is the only thing on your list that is currently implemented. It does affect the amount of rain you get. All the others have no effect in-game at the moment.

As for the factions on the map, they were implemented on Setember 9th and Tynan said:

Factions now have bases represented on the world map (though they donââ,¬â,,¢t do anything - this is just to make the faction code make sense).