Landscaping - Flatten is broken badly

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lonny
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Landscaping - Flatten is broken badly

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- PC/Mac/PS4/XB1: PS4, PS5
- Vehicle/Tool/Model/Object: Landscaping / Sculpting
- Issue:
Using flatten in landscaping mode costs constantly money, even no terrain modification is done.
Assumption: This can lead to ground that does look flat, but is not, which may cause the infamous "The deformation of the terrain failed!" message when placing buildings.
- Single- or Multiplayer: Singleplayer, Multiplayer not tested
- Steps to reproduce:
  1. Start a new Farm-Manager game at Ravenport
  2. buy field #19
  3. start landscaping mode (mode Sculpting)
  4. brush shape circle
  5. brush size 20, brush strength 0.1
  6. move the cursor to 0,0°,1660,1620 (actually not relevant, happens on every not even surface)
  7. go to the developers and demand, that the position information in the minimap must be readable independent of the stuff displayed under the position information
  8. start flatten and don't let loose the R1 button
  9. money (top right) runs down constantly
  10. continue to flatten (continue the action started in step 8.) the whole field #19. It will still cost money, if you stop moving the cursor at any position
  11. change to building mode and select "Easy Shed 1"
  12. Change direction to 0.0° and move the building around. You should find a couple of position, were for no obvious reason you get the error message "The deformation of the terrain failed!". Do not place the building.
  13. Go back to landscaping mode and use the square brush to flatten the field. You should see the money drain effect, even thought, the land is supposed to be already flat.
If you start the flatting process using the size 2 brush, you will most likely not get the money drain bug. But the resulting flat ground is still broken and you will get the "The deformation of the terrain failed!" error in a lot of places.
- Does it happen on a standard map without mods yes/no: Yes, happens on Ravenport with no mods active.
- Which vehicles & machines are involved: none

I don't expect that this will be fixed in FS19 (it was not in last couple of years). But please make sure, that this is fixed in FS22!

[edited] applied the standard bug report formating