Politician Archive
Thread: Give us flatter grounds, or fix skyscraper foundations!
I think that's being overreactionist...
The reason they have skyscraper-type foundations is because people complained that the variance in the terrain that houses could be placed on was too small. They wanted to be able to put houses on hillsides and other types of terrain, so what they did was compromised. Since flattening the ground is absolutely outta the question (much too cumbersome in server load) the opted to just allow houses to extend their foundations to compensate for uneven terrain.
So, this results in towering buildings and large brick foundations. People got what they wanted, and people were happy they could live on the sides of hills.
you should come to our city Spired Rock on Dantooine on Lowca 
Our team has did a pretty good job laying out the city.
We set up our city near the old Pod race track on Tat. The main part is flat terrain but parts from the city go into the hills. At the slope of the hills we have several houses and I like this "skyscraper" looking. And I invested many time to plan the shape of our city.
I was really rooting for flatter terrain too,but I would rather have some hills than a completely flat city. My city hall has a skyscraper foundation and I really like it. Whenever I see a city hall on flat ground, its seems like it was missing something. Flat is kinda boring, especially on Tatooine when sand hill or a rock is your only scenery 
Ithink the reason cities are so sloppy has more to do with conflicting schedules than terrain. When I placed my city hall, I told the citizens to try to keep the are in front of the city hall clear and try to keep the houses in line and face north and be as close together as possible. Miraculously, we actually got 10 citizens in 24 hours, and by the end of the week, it was more important to me to just fit the houses in the radius than to have them look nice. I placed the hall like 10 seconds after the servers came up after the publish that raised the cap from 10 to 20 on Tat. I had been standing on that spot for a week, I had no combat skills so if a lair spawned, i had to try another spot. There were already 9 shuttles on Tat. Somehow, during the holidays so no one was was ever on, and I was really busy, we got over 55 people (mostly guild members)to place a house there we got the last shuttle slot on the planet. I really didnt have the luxury of making the city look nice trying to cram 55 people in a 250m radius, with very rough terrain. Didnt turn out too bad andwe've gotten rid of most of theoddly placed houses ,but I would really love to completely remodel my city Now comes the arduous task of getting all the people in a certain area to come and pick up there house at the same time so I can place everything and transfer itback, and change my design based around terrain difficulties 
I'm definitely waiting until after the city revamp and we get some form of street. Even if it is only darker sand.
We have a beautiful spot on Talus, just an amazing location. A HUGE mountain to our backs (Mt. Weytohi), twin rivers (one on each side of the city) and a fairly flat terrain. Our city faces east, and when you're standing on the steps of the guild hall or city hall.. sunrise is just incredible.
Yes, I'm proud of our city.