Reconciling City Borders

[otodom 0]

Sorry if this topic is discussed somewhere else, but... I'm going to ask anyway....

So I'm starting to play SC4 again after a rather long hiatus. I really enjoy designing my own regions in god mode but there was one problem I could never figure out satisfactoraly:  I'm talking about reconciling a city's borders to its neighboring cities. It's not a problem when it's a fairly flat city, but when I'm trying to make mountains, especially jagged ones, it is almost impossible to make the edges line up and still look good. Whenever I use the auto-reconciliation on mountains it just creates this ugly, smooth saddle on the borders. And have you ever had the "spiky corners" problem when reconciling against the corner city? Anyway, I was wondering what strategies, tips, and suggestions people have for creating a continuous mountain chain across several cities in a region, and just avoiding alot of the reconciliation headaches in general. Thanks!

[masochist 111]

This looks like a job for:

The SC4 TerraFormer, by wouanagaine

That tool lets you terraform entire regions at once.  No more spiky corners or crappily reconciled edges...just do it all at once, in full 3-D!  And don't forget about its sidekick:

The SC4 Region and Config Creator, by Ordio

Well...this tool's actually a lot older than the TerraFormer, but I use them in tandem because the RACC lets you layout your city tiles down however you like.  I do that first, then save the region and load it up in TerraFormer.  It works!

Of course...if you're really opposed to doing that for some reason, then the only bit of advice I can give is to change the size of the tool you're using.  You can make it smaller by holding [sHIFT] and pressing a number (1=smallest; 9=largest).  That might make it easier to pinpoint different things.  This also comes in handy when trying to terraform near reconciled borders (because it's easier to change the land without messing up the border).

Hope I've helped a bit...

[otodom 0]

Hey thanks!

I'm stil in the process of finding my way around the TerraFormer, but it looks like exactly the thing I've been looking for. (I've already got the RCC and it's great.)