Raise land no longer raises mountains to cut off the enemy? What is the point then? Build a scenic hill? Haha

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How is this useful now?

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

You can lower mountains with lower land, or raise water up to be land with raise land

Also you can create hills to slow down the opponent (Takes more movement to move over hills, especially if you play Tarth yourself so you won't be playing against master scouts).

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Kongdej, reply 1
You can lower mountains with lower land, or raise water up to be land with raise land

Also you can create hills to slow down the opponent (Takes more movement to move over hills, especially if you play Tarth yourself so you won't be playing against master scouts).

Sincerely
~ Kongdej
End of Kongdej's quote

 

I guess this had to be done because it was overpowered against the AI?

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Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top


???

I just did it last night in 0.951. used 'raise land' to raise a single tile 2 times, which turned the next tile by the shore into plains. So I did 2 times on that tile too, which turned the next one out into land...but good luck reaching that. Result was that 2 tiles became impassible mountain tiles. Not as tall as natural mountains, but it did the job.

and 50 mana is too cheap for such a powerful spell. Even with the 4 castings required, 200 mana is a small price to pay for security.