So I've continued to read all of this without comment for the last few pages.
What I've noticed so far:
* People are telling you (the Devs) to dump your idea of limiting TFing. Or simply remove it all together in favor of Flat islands (Or islands as they are) and modular colony defenses such as different types of walls and gates etc.
* Leave Tfing alone, but fix the hight ranges.
* Do not limit creativity by creating a system which only supports cookie cutter base types.
Basically.... Leave the old system like it was, and simply fix the height ranges for transforming, while adding in new module colony structures for defense, and redesigning some of the layouts for the islands.
Pretty simple honestly.
The problems I think Zoom is that you all are literally trying to turn a mole hill.. into a mountain. STOP. Fix what needs to be fixed so the system works. And stop trying to screw with things that are not broken. (Until you actually fix and release the things that are).
Or...
You could simply just make all the Gamma islands 100% FLAT (or simply leave them as they are). Say No teraforming, add a few neat defensive structures, walls and gates and screw with some of those mechanics, and be done with it.