I'm making a sandbox campaign using 5e to run a post apocalyptic fantasy Tokyo adventure, so each main location is known to the players and I can't just put in random encounters. Those locations need to have a strong connection to what is there today. The players will explore the world to pursue their goals while a mysterious villian observes from the darkness.  I want to use player background as a motivation and incentive for them to explore, and sometimes run into places they should have left alone. How do I use their backgrounds to help them decide which locations to explore so that I know which locations to prepare?  The sandbox is supposed to take them from lower heroic tier to lower epic, so I want to give plenty of space and time for them to develop and find clues, so I can't put all their motivation into one single location, and I don't want to transform every landmark into a generic encounter.  Here's an example of my map   I have all the marked locations named, but I don't know if I should map the dungeons yet because I don't know how often should I include something to aid the players find their goal and how often I should make them a deathly nest of aberrations and treasure.  You can see I have many locations, and it's overwhelming to prepare them all.  Where should I start?
Obviously you need to have some high level idea of what's going on in the world around the players, and where you are heading with the story, but in an ongoing game at some point players will be players and will head off in a different direction to what you planned.  How far ahead should you be planning to minimise or eliminate being caught off guard, but also try to minimise the amount of 'wasted content' you come up with but never gets used?
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The code segment below does what I want to achieve in 3D with two exceptions:  The projections on the xy plane and z dimension are given instead of connecting the head of the vector to the corresponding value in each dimension.  Numerical values are missing in dimensions.   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