This should have been a blog (or still will be), but yes, the sensible time to do anything about gamma is before Steam.

We do have plans for two changes:

1. Limit terraforming to slopes that you can still pass. This can be made more interesting by making the limit so that at max slope possible lights/assaults can pass but mechs/heavies can't (just barely, so still no vertical walls). Obviously this would make lights/assaults useful for gamma base infiltration, if someone still uses terrain to defend it in light of this change. Our goal is to make you NOT use terrain for defense, but wall units instead, or anything that would make sense to develop after terrain defense is not useful anymore (shield fence, etc).

2. Limit the number of buildings you can connect to a terminal. This could be done by introducing a resource that the main terminal provides and all the buildings connected to it tap on that resource (basically what is CPU or reactor when equipping robots).

Burial wrote:

Terraforming change.. what happens with the allready terraformed ground?

Reset, if we want the change to have any effect then there is no way around that unfortunately.

Of course if we decide to go this way we will try to provide any help we can to minimize the losses. In the case of buildings which have an owner and are things that can be counted this is pretty straightforward. For terraforming... yeah.