Yes I do mean island wide.

And to clarify, it should be a limit on how much tiles are changed from their original base. This means you couldn't simply raise every tile to its max + value, for example.

The reason I suggest an island limit is to prevent infinte terraforming over the entre island. The limit forces you to concentrate most of your terraforming in the areas you plan on living or defending. And prevents you from spending all terraforming in a bid to wall the island off .... which wouldnt be possible anyways.

Abuse would be, max this and "lock" terraforming to prevent offensive operations. Solution would be to allow a different rapidly eroding terraform charge that would allow attackers to breach walls, and then allow them to "de-terraform" locked areas to assault other base areas.

So to expand on this ... 2 types of charges ... base building that is capped per island to prevent inifnte urban sprawl, and combat charges, which are used against bases and dont count against island caps.  The sole purpose of the combat charges are to prevent impregnagable bases. The cost of the combat charges should be higher, making them cost efficient to breach a base but not feasible to level or terraform a base. Once a base is breached  then regular charges could be used to de-terraform the rest of it, if the successful attacker so chose.

Norrdec I just thought of the 2 charges as a possible solution to your abuse concern. Because you raise a good point

What is wrong with terraforming walls, but adding or installing a gate structure? Terraforming already allows neat straight walls if the player puts the effort in. Why is this bad?

Also, you can put structures on top of terraformed walls. if you introduce multi tile wall structures, are you going to allow structures on top of them? This will only force an entire new set of code to put a structure on another structure. Why, when a system already exists?

People max things all the time. I have the best armor tanked bot in the game.

You have a counter. The game rolls on. If you push something to the extreme in one area, you will gimp it in another. Thats the point of my proposed ceilings. You need to figure out a balance that works for your skills.
Everyones is different.

Most of what is currently suggested imposes such limitations so that only one type of base will be optimal, and every player will build that base.

It was only an example.

I will build a base, but only to test network configurations against bandwidth limits. I obviously do not have the years of experience that you guys have to bring up a well defended colony.

Islands poll: what exactly would be the poll about? This is a discussion, a poll like "Do you want us to redo some of the gamma islands?" wouldn't bring us forward in any way. Neither do "not like x and not like y" statements.

I'll try to put up the old island maps somewhere.

When you build your base just drop the needed structures to build a fully powered and boosted production base and see what you have left.

We don't assume you have the years of experience of building Gamma bases there are very few Corps in the game who do. But here is the issue, you are telling us will all of our experience that we have to be limited by slopes for example ... because it (first) was bad tile stretch look (then) was going to not allow for roam able islands.

Why not:

* Allow the same Tf mechanics that were allowed in Gamma 1.0 within 3KM of the terminal

* Limit the height at which any tile can be raised to to 500M from sea level. this would require you to re design all of the islands so the highest tiles were no higher than 500M.

* 3KM is the distance at which all of the beta terminals can have walls set at so it would be a consistent range for a base footprint.

* Increase the terminal bandwidth @t3 to 100,000 from 40, 000.

*Allow only 1 terminal per island.

If people are not given the freedom to create their own bases with unique designs you might as well just add more BETA islands with 1 terminal in the center of them and remove the tower requirement form colixium mining.

Why only one per island?

I have uploaded the gamma island maps with heavy mech slope display here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/utv2ra6gcwb8 … QaeBz1_TBa

do you know what all those islands have in common, making it a bit boring?

all teleporters are located at the coast, not a single one is right in the CENTER of the island.
also, no teleporter has more then one connection.

is there a special reason for that?

Gamma 2.0 islands layout Poll

1. Leave them alone.
2. Redesign all gamma island layouts.

Very simple poll that I can tell. This has nothing to do with base building etc.

Yup starting to think TF just has too many issues to solve. And even if you think you have solved them all someone will find a way to break it still.

Yeah shield walls would be the look I think that would go with the game.

A wall would consist of energy nodes, one at each end. The shield effect would look just like the current shields in game by would be a straight from one node to the other end node.

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