how terraform building?

I am noob too. In my first battle I noticed I can't autoterraform buildings by dragging mouse, while in earlier battles I could. Help please, this is confusing.


(who broke it?)

Pressing and holding the left mouse button does not let you place structures and is too easy to accidentally discover (in a bad way). It's now an option.

i liked the old terraform...
is there still widget to do this?

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But this B option is not visible for the noobs?

EDIT: just like ctrl-shift to build 4 solars per mexes. I learned it today. How can a nub know??

quote: But this B option is not visible for the noobs? EDIT: just like ctrl-shift to build 4 solars per mexes. I learned it today. How can a nub know??

Newb cant know. Even i after 3,3k games didn't know about such terraform ability and even less about 4 solars about mex. Newbs also don't know about widgets and many other things.

In summary this game isn't for standard newbs. We need better newbs.

So here's an idea. Why not use modifier + mouse wheel for this?

Example:
1. Pick what you want to build through the build menu as usual.
2. Shift + mouse wheel to determine elevation.
3. Click or shift-click to build as many objects as you want on that elevation.

It's (relatively) easy to discover while unlikely to be discovered by accident, which was the problem with the original implementation. It doesn't require any complicated keybindings.