changing desert to plain

[Pocus]

Hi,

I would like to have the possibility for workers to terraform back hell terrain and desert (we know how this can screw AI, until the spell logic for AI is coded, and I don't think it will before some months).
So any possibility to do that with workers?

 

[onedreamer]

Actually the AI already uses spells to terraform Deserts into Plains. But I suspect it does it only if there can be irrigation.

 

[Caradoc]

This seems like a place to ask this: When a hellfire breaks out, is there a way to dowse it before it finishes burning?

 

[mervvyn]

I believe having a unit with at least Water I nearby is required. It may also involve that unit casting spring; I'm not sure.

 

[sixs_monkey]

The 'Spring' spell definitely puts out fire in all tiles adjacent to the one where it is cast (usually (if not always)) the one the caster is in). Whether there is a different "Hellfire" type of fire, I do not know but doubt. I've so far only needed to put out fires started by Acheron.

Now I'm bummed that my captured Acheron (took a lot of doing, once I heard it was possible) doesn't seem able to start wildfires on my enemy's continent. I wonder if he would if my leader had the 'Barbarian' trait.

 

[Pocus]

So I guess the answer is that this is hardcoded for the spring spell (desert>plain).

I have example on my game where the AI has irrigated farms, in city radius, being desert... And I never saw anyway a single spring spell cast by the AI.