Re: Gamma Balancing
Sorry I'm not addressing everything here, but there is a practical problem with limiting terminal placement based on range.
You don't know where the other terminals are.
If you would know, the location of the terminals could not be hidden anymore.
If you don't know, you would have to trial-and-error the WHOLE island when you are trying to place a terminal.
Trial and error, maybe for some. And perhaps its a way to test distances to unknown terminals. But is that really a big deal? With new terraforming there should be NO WALLED OFF ISLANDS, so conceivably any light should have free reign to scout the entire island. And its not very realistic (not smart at all) for anyone to go to an island and pop down massive investment without taking 30 minutes to scout the island for other inhabitants.