Pixel Scoop

Ok, I accept that I am not a good terraformer. I know where the tools are, I know what they do, but all my attempts lead to hills that look like breasts and ‘ponds’ that resemble craters. This is why, I do NOT terraform. Why would I want to make a plot of land look like a piece of shit?

But it seems that a fundamental lack of ability isn’t enough to put many off. While terraforming isn’t cheap, admitedly, if you really want a big job doing, I’d suggest either hiring someone who can do it or taking classes! Personally, I think terraforming requires a certain artistic edge that people simply either have or don’t. I don’t.

The first thing that comes to mind when I think of dismal terraforming are those grid like sims! I suppose this is rather more a lack of terraforming than dismal terraforming but wow, they’re pretty bad! Seriously, imagination people! Who would think, ‘Ok so I have a sim here that I’d like to attract people to live on. Hmm, I know what I will do, I will cut it into rectangular blocks with no land shaping whatsoever. Now there’s a good idea!’

Then there’s those who, bless their cotton socks, do try. They try to terraform the sims but they find themselves with ’streams’ that look like they were put in place by a newborn and ‘ponds’ that look like, well, an accidental hole in the ground.

And then the hills that look like male genitals. Well…. this is a common occurance I noticed on my travels. Since when has a hill only ever been about a metre wide? I did encounter a few ‘hills’ that were nothing more than giant penis-like somethings sticking out of the ground. Allow me to illustrate.

Yes, I confess. I added the condom.

Anyway, there’s my rant. I know not everyone can afford to pay terraformers or buy expensive raw files and I imagine I’m opening up the floodgates for owners of the grid sims throwing things at me and wishing terrible things upon me. That’s ok. I don’t mind. If you can’t terraform and you can’t afford to buy a raw file or have someone do it for you, you have two options. Either go learn on the practice sims or don’t terraform. I wonder what looks worse…the slab of a sim as default when delivered by LL or a bad terraforming job. My guess is the latter.