Exodus Alters Underlying Terrain...?

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   I've witnessed this as well.
Two cities in the last two months changed a large mountain square to normal plains after exodus.
Both large mountains were there long before my cities initially settled on them.

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TomBombadil Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Greenhorn Joined: 15 Aug 2012 Status: Offline Points: 78	Posted: 06 Mar 2013 at 22:13
	I've witnessed this as well. Two cities in the last two months changed a large mountain square to normal plains after exodus. Both large mountains were there long before my cities initially settled on them.

abstractdream Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Postmaster General Joined: 02 Oct 2011 Location: Oarnamly Status: Offline Points: 1857	Posted: 06 Mar 2013 at 21:44
	My last Exodus was around August of last year but looking at the square I left behind it is as I assumed it should be, an all 5 plot, plains square.
	Bonfyr Verboo

Darmon Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Forum Warrior Joined: 15 Aug 2012 Status: Offline Points: 315	Posted: 06 Mar 2013 at 19:44
	So far I've done exodus with two towns, and both times the underlying terrain where the city used to be was altered (both started on large mountains, and one became small hills while the other became plains). I assumed the game was trying to normalize some of the anomalous terrain that exists because of how the game world used to be (when the fractal map was added, apparently towns kept their directly adjacent terrain types, even if that made things a bit silly). So what I'm wondering is, has anyone noticed a pattern of the shifts? Does it only happen when the prior terrain is a mountain (or do people only notice when mountains suddenly disappear)? Since the immediately surrounding terrain doesn't seem to affect anything, perhaps the new terrain is just randomly determined from all the applicable terrain types for the biome and elevation? Or does the alteration not always happen?