its not bad. makes it more intresting for me atm. might need a few small tweaks but aside from that...

NO

p.s.: cry more

well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2aQiun69M4

simple math. too lazy to look for the topic before it happend.

its not that there are not enough high tech. there are just way too many racial ones compared to high tech and common. simple ratio between what bots drop and whats required to finish the tree. and you always will have a few mil racial over. even if you kill in the for you best possible ways.

worth a +1
loading all the worldmap each time when you open the map causes a lot lag.

can you show us the "old" 3 islands that also make it into the game at first?

i dont like the idea with the placing tiles either.

but there could be a thing in between if the auras dont work out for you.

im thinking about it in a bit more geometrical way. if you have two highway nodes then then you have a connection between them (line) then you can create a area around that line (rectangle) all tiles in that area will get that highway function.

the thing you have to do is to have a function that determins what tiles are in effect. that way you can skip the aura effects. you then just need to make checks or changes at important times. like when you change connections, node goes on or offline or gets destroyed.

something like this:
http://i.imgur.com/wAauW4p.png

just a small idea.

if you limit the resources on the alpha islands then you will get a lot more problems.
simple as it is. you can not force ppl to go to a pvp island. this is not a pure pvp game. even if a lot of us think of it as such.

there are plenty of ppl that dont want to go to beta and gamma, and you need content for these ppl as well.
what will a alpha player do when he no longer can find any ores he wants to mine. he will not move to beta if he does not want to go there. he will leave the game. because the game has not to offer what he wants.

epriton is already beta only and its the essential reason for beta.

colixum is gamma only and it might be a valid reason in the future when the devs bring in more meaning for it.

where is the problem in unlimited resources? the limiting factor should be your game time. i dont know if you can play 24/7 but i cant. and i have other things to do besides mining.

if some ppl decide to mine on alpha for the next 5 years then let them do so.

ppl that want the better stuff will move to the pvp areas on their own. the only trick is to give them stuff there that makes it attractive for them to go there. not by taking away their stuff on the few alpha islands.

if you have made your math then you know that epriton is a large essential part of t4 production in gather time as well as in nic value. and you only get up to assault and t2 items with the alpha ores.
also nora is quite pointless to plant on alpha because it will be stolen before you can harvest it.

your major point is taking content away from caerbears. and i have to so that is a very bad idea.
if you think ppl can get too much ore in too less time then this might be another ballancing issue.

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i like that idea very much. of cource always depending how it will be done.

i think having more different island types might be a good idea. atm they are all single land mass maybe a few with seperate sub islands, rivers and other things that might make the landskape more intresting and bring different tactical options might be worth considering. surely nothing every island needs to have.

for everything else i think we need to look at the original islands again. can you upload a few screenshots of the islands (with slopes shown) for a better overview? now that we no longer can look at them ingame.

yea we need a option to remove ourselves from the projects that were shared with us.

but zoom: gamma got wiped. the old plans have basicly all higher slopes. so they will not work with the new terraforming anyway. whats the point in keeping them? gamma was wiped. with it all the plans there.

hell yea