I want to position my “Fort” near top of a hill, for the +bonus in range crossbow attack. Plus it looks nice
So I “Flatten” the terrain
The Terrain doesn’t look flat, and I can’t put down my “Fort”
I tried again, to “Flatten” the terrain. And I still can’t put down my “Fort”
Just in case, I tried this 20x, and I still cant put down my “Fort”
I can easily flatten 3x3, or 4x3. But it seems I cant flatten bigger areas, the biggest I can flatten is 4x3.
I am not sure if this is a bug, or intended as such. If it is intended as such, do limit the maximum area you can Flatten to 4x3
Try to flatten a larger area, with a +2, then with +1 and then the area you want to build on. If it doesn’t work, then it isn’t possible to build over their.
I’ve been playing the mountain map and have been having this issue with a 2x3 area as well. I’ve tried widening out the flattening several more rows and columns than is needed and the area looks flat but still I cannot build due to steep terrain.
Thats kinda the reason of my post. If it is not possible to build or to flatten the area, then the option to “Flatten” the area shouldnt be allowed. Like you cant flatten water.
The issue is, you are allowed to flatten the area, but it doesnt really flatten.
I managed to flat buildable area on a mountain map from the very edge of the map. I must say that it took hours and it’s no where near what I want it to be, but I’m playing hard mode and I’ve had to focus on surviving while trying to flat it, but it is possible in my experience.
Don’t have ss from when I started flattening, but I just started from the first possible tile at the edge. Here are couple porgress screenshots.
The fact it takes hours and only marginal results, is pretty much a design flaw that should be looked into. I don’t care if it takes the workers years to perform the work, my having to repeatedly micro manage the flattening, which results in long slopes or messed up terraforming, more than a nicely flattened areas 90% of the time, is pretty annoying.
It should work like pick the square you want everything’s height flattened to, then select the area to be flattened. The selection area could use to be expanded considerably as well, as flattening the area inside a cities walls can be quite the challenge and seems to create areas in which the NPC’s can get stuck a quite often.
