Why so many mountains?

[BigSexy]

ok, I had a custom map with grassland as the special attribute, however still mountains all over. In fact I started in the corner with mountains around. Remember hating these starts in AoW shadow magic as you get screwed with resource and nodes. So 2 questions

- is there a way to remove mountains in map creation?
- is there a way with strat spells to change mountains to some other terrain?

thanks

[ReD2222]

There is a spell to raise/remove mountains. Materium tomes. After the usage that area transformes into just a rocky province. Later you can grow a forest on it if you want :)

[Midas]

Did you pick the Highlands trait for the scenario? It intentionally has a ton of mountains.

[Serulin]

Originally posted by Midas:

Did you pick the Highlands trait for the scenario? It intentionally has a ton of mountains.

no many of the map types gen a lot of mountains without higlands. Single land mass being one of them. The mountain spam is nuts

[Star Paladin]

There is a nature spell, I think tier 3, that destroys mountains. i got it and made a lot more usable land.

[Nate]

Be sure to have a scout prospect those mountains before you blow them up.

[Malaficus Shaikan]

Originally posted by ReD2222 Black flammable gold:

There is a spell to raise/remove mountains. Materium tomes. After the usage that area transformes into just a rocky province. Later you can grow a forest on it if you want :)

Wait?
Raise mountains?
I thought they only had remove mountains?

[BigJ]

Only removal, no raising.

Nothing to deal with bedrock either, rip underground rng.

[Malaficus Shaikan]

Originally posted by BigJ:

Only removal, no raising.

Nothing to deal with bedrock either, rip underground rng.

:sadface:
Why dont they add raise mountains, wetlands, etc.
A big part of what made age of wonders fun was reshaping the lands to fit your needs.

[Calan]

I selected rolling fields, and large open landmass for my maps and all of them are covered in ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mountains, what a joke of a game. I'm sure paradox will "fix" it by selling a mountain dlc

[ReD2222]

That's weird, cause the description says it allows ro remove and raise mountain and raising mountains deal damage to those on that lands... Sorry for the inconvenience with non-approved information. :(

[KirGeo]

Needs a bedrock and lava terraform method too. Hopefully in future also water could use some lover. Just a Harbor and Fisheries is sad.

[BigSexy]

Originally posted by Nate:

Be sure to have a scout prospect those mountains before you blow them up.

what does this mean? Just move around them?

[BigSexy]

Originally posted by Star Paladin:

There is a nature spell, I think tier 3, that destroys mountains. i got it and made a lot more usable land.

thanks will try this

[Midas]

Originally posted by BigSexy:

Originally posted by Nate:

Be sure to have a scout prospect those mountains before you blow them up.

what does this mean? Just move around them?

Pretty sure only Industrial culture can do it, or at least that's what I've seen so far. Basically you'll see a the province lit up while moving a unit that can prospect, and if you move them into the area and click on them to see what actions they can do, prospecting is one of them.

[BigSexy]

Originally posted by Midas:

Did you pick the Highlands trait for the scenario? It intentionally has a ton of mountains.

umm, really. Why would I pick a map trait that says it has lots mountains and then complain about them? lol, dude. It was endless fields, but was in reality endless mountains.

DEVs: Endless Fields should not equal (1/4 mountain terrain - counted). Why would I find this out after a release? Should have been vetted in a beta. Game is great but I can see some things here and there that look rushed.