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<H2><A NAME="SEC63" HREF="xcdesign_toc.html#SEC63">Terrain Manipulation</A></H2>

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In a few games, you will want to let players alter the terrain.
This needs to be done judiciously,
since a cell of terrain generally represents a vast area,
and the simulated time in <I>Xconq</I> is generally too short
for major terraforming operations.
However, building bridges and digging moats can be reasonable
additions to a game.

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Since actions are always completed quickly,
and there is no concept of "partly modified terrain",
you will probably have to come up with a trick to make terrain modification
be slow.  One way is make the acp (or material?) cost very high.
Another way is to make the alteration happen by removing a material,
such as clearcutting a forest, then letting the action make the
actual change to clear terrain.

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