THEMAX#7011
Landscaping update
As you all know, TheoTown has drastically improved over time, with some additions still highly popular (night-animations for example). But as a city builder who like a lot to detail my cities, i found that options to make a map feel more natural are quite limited, yes, we do have trees, elevated terrains and a few different soil textures but that's mostly all. What i advocate in favor of would be a major overhaul update in favor of more terrain variety.
Such an update would allow to have different kinds of elevations, the current ones plus a bit more variety with cliffs, steeper slopes and new terrains types (most of which could be made by plugins creators, i have already created a few nice looking terrains so we could contribute).
There is also a need for the ability to create custom water tiles as well as more use for water, you can't make streams on slope without plugins, and they are mainly decorative, you cant have waterfall without plugins and they are also decorative.
Such an update would also work perfectly with a transport overhaul update, with new terrain contraints would de facto come the need for a transport update (cable car for steep elevations or canal locks to allow ships to navigate even in elevated areas).
Finally, it would be interesting to have more options when making bridges and dams because as of right now, options are mostly limited.
I dont know if all of this is possible or how much time it would cost. It would indeed be a big update and it would mean there would be a few small updates only in between but the addition of a massive landscape overhaul is really something that many are looking forward to.
If any detail is missing, i'll perhaps create a forum topic for that to elaborate later.