[Bug] Creating Beaches?

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So, I've been playing around with a longer game, and have run out of beaches.  I can use the Raise Land spell to soften up the shorelines, but the land type simply goes from 'Grassland Land' to 'Grassland Submerged', with the visual of land sloping down into the water.

Without an actual 'Beach' tile type, we cannot build Harbors or Fisheries at these modified areas.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

I've been able to create a beach, but I had to do a couple tiles to get it to "take". And it still showed up as a "grassland beach". The harbor where the mouse cursor is in the screenshot is on beach I created from raised land.

Well, I guess dropbox won't let me embed an image. Thanks Publius; I've done that for Elemental saves but for some reason had my head stuck on needing to put the image in the photos folder. I have no idea why I was thinking that, but whatever ;)

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

So it is possible, but it is not working properly.  I guess that's something to know.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Well, I guess dropbox won't let me embed an image.
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Works fine for me.  Copy the image file into your Dropbox Public folder, wait for it to upload so that the little check mark on the icon turns green, right click on the file, open the Dropbox selection and click on "Copy public link".  Then, back in this forum, where you're composing your post, click on the icon that looks like a picture of a tree, and it will open up a window where you can paste the Dropbox public link.  It takes it a few seconds to show up in the post.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

I've been playing around with Raise & Lower Land some, as I try to create more beach-front property, and it really needs to be adjusted.  I have been trying to create a harbor at one of my cities by using these spells to create a beach, and it just doesn't work.  So far, I would have been better of spending my time & mana in raising a land bridge to explore other continents.

Plus, the level of terrain you get when you use the spells seems to be inconsistent, or just not looking like it does anything.

Lower Land - Lowers the height of a tile, hill into land or mountain into hill.  Cannot be used to vaporize land into water.
Raise Land - Raises the height of a tile, turning water, beach and cliff into land.  Cannot be used to turn a hill into a mountain.

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[Suggestion]

Lower Land - Hill to land, land to beach, cliff to beach.  5 Mana (same as now)

Raise Land - Submerged to beach, beach to land, land to hill.  5 Mana (same as now)

Submerge Land - Beach to submerged (water), 25 Mana, 1 Earth Shard or 1 Water Shard

Create Mountain - Hill to mountain, 25 Mana, 1 Earth Shard