I think it was a brilliant idea, and I can see how it would halve the time taken to do a Ferraris Style map, maybe even more than that. In fact, if I could only lay my hands on that 25 hour day I had somewhere lying around this place I'd have a go myself :)

Looking good :)

Very nice job with the buildings, wall and tower. I had no idea the Watabou cities style could be combined with the Ferraris style at all, so kudos for that!

Only one thing to say so far: that speckling effect on the roads is likely due to the fact that they were never drawn with the Ferraris Style road tool, which draws two lines on two different sheets - the underlying sheet being the one that creates the edge glow and protects the road itself from getting transparency acne (the black spots). You could work out where to move the existing roads and what sheet to copy them onto and what properties to change by drawing a short sample road with the drawing tool and using Info->List from the menu. That would make them work a lot better for you, and would ensure they don't end up in the wrong order with all the other stuff in the map.

Not sure about the sastrugi, but I think the fissures are all done now.

Weird, as in not right at all - the resulting symbol doesn't look like anything but a mess.

Well, the vote has changed in balance over the last few hours, and I'm also having issues with doing transparent tops for the more curvatious version on the right because the moment you take the top off you lose the shading and they just look totally weird. So what I propose is this:

I do 5 mesas like the one on the left with transparent tops, and 5 like the one on the right with solid tops - just as they already are, in fact.

That way, you can have the curvatious ones with the natural top for general use, and there will also be 5 slightly more practical ones you can stick a city symbol on top of and have whatever texture you like underneath it showing through. So you could use them to represent tepui and have a rich grass texture and add one of the waterfalls I will make to go with the cliffs generally.

How does that sound?