Some semi-random thoughts on terrain generation

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Okay, thanks, both of you. I think I have a pretty good idea about this issue. However, I'm inclined to postpone it now. Does it happen really that often that it should be considered critical?
The fix would require quite a lot of protocol hackery and I'm not sure I'm sane enough to do that now - I've run out of chocolate, so my blood sugar's low