Just say no to terraforming

Here is my useless rant for the day. It really gets on my nerves when someone terraforms a plot of land to hell and back. Terraforming so that your build fits the property is one thing but raping the land like a savage is another.
I know, I know..free cybercountry but I wish people would please take into account their neighbors and the general flow of the sim in mind when they chose to terraform.
We now return to your regularly scheduled forums..I feel better now
Chalice
ps..as for my neighbors in SL, this isn't for you. You guys rock!

I disagree. Teraforming is too damn usefull. We had a large hill we had to build around today, becuase we couldnt flatten the land so it was usable.... bring back 1.2 teraforming limits!

-Adam

I love terraforming!! Not bulldozing mind you..but either enhancing the build with creative landscaping, or making a build work better by lowering or raising land. However, I sure wish the tools were more fine tuned. The small just isn't small enough...

How small do ya want them?! I used the small one to make a long, winding mountain path that is just about an avatar wide. Surely u can't want them smaller than that? What u trying to do, scratch your name in the dirt?

Well..small is just right for a path about 1-2 avatars wide..however..if you are building a winding path. curving riverbed, small depressions or just want to take a little off on the side, small is still to big. I can manage, but takes about 10 times longer to get it usable than it would with a finer tool. Need a tiny option that could be half the size of the small or even a quarter of the size...

Terraforming so that your build fits the property is one thing but raping the land like a savage is another.

See above

I agree with some well thought out terraforming. I am talking about terraforming that disrupts your neighbors or makes the sim look like an earthquake hit. I have had builds destroyed from neighbors using terraforming tools right next to a property line.
Anyway..I am over it now. Was just ranting the day I wrote the original thread
Chalice

i don't know. every so often i find these high mountains in the middle of flat plains. and i think they are neat.

they make me think of mighty pillars holding up the vaulted sky.

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but i will admit that i have seen some truly heinous terraforming.

It is not fair to expect somebody that is not vested in your community to respect your layout. Just because you move into an area does not justify in any way imposing your idea of "right" on them.

You want to keep an area uniform, you get a group of people and find a big plot, and occupy all of it. That will entitle you to control. If even ONE person is not vested in your community and you build around them, you should:

a) try to get them to participate. This is a choice, not a command. If they say no, that's their right.

b) build anyway, with the understanding that you have a rogue in the midst. You took that gamble, you live with it. Grief that person or shun them, and you may prompt them to make a point of throwing it in your face.

c) DON'T BUILD THERE. Respect the rights of individuals, recognize the fact that they PAY for their land just like you, and asking them to curtail having creartive fun with it is WRONG.

Yes, I hold individual rights sacred in SL, in RL, and anywhere else I can plant a flag. I'm actually rather shocked to see how...well...individual I am in this mindset.

I've seen it all in Natoma; porn, huge flashing towers, irregular hills, huge pits, lakes, waterfalls, ugly particle generating balls, annoying sound loops, airfields, car lots, gardens, dungeons, "official" stores, the Chatbot (which I miss actually) the works. Two people move in and that's all supposed to stop. Pfft. Welcome to ever-changing Natoma, called once by Robin Linden the "cursed" sim (it used to have an unusual amount of technical issues...it's so damn old).