*You know you can select ecosystem instances and manipulate them -eg translate/rotate? *

I didn't know that, but it's good to know. I'm tempted to go over the city, segment by segment, and manually fix everything.  It's possible, and I don't have a deadline. 

*In fact, this is even probably what happens with these old towns. I mean, before building a hut the builders don't cover the ground with anything, they just build the hut wherever there's space. So, the ground does have the same color everywhere. The remaining space not covered with huts is the road. 

**** ***You make a good point. At the very least, I'll give lesser roads a dirt road material. Even cattle make trails, after all. I think the bridges would lead foot traffic over specific areas that would probably differ visibly from the fertile garden/crop land. This could be established via Cherryman’s garden plane method, but since I've already put a lot of work into making the roads, I’m inclined to preserve them, even if it means manually adjusting huts for the next week or two. 

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