Don't people have Nora farms near bases?  Saw some older videos and screenies of Nora farms.  How would this effect this?  Deployable structures like walls protect em?

-Ensi

should have been from the beginning of gamma.
They already did a similar effect for the map display of a base. The concrete creep could cover the same "blob" area that is displayed on map.

since nora is an artifical nano-bot "plant" it could grow on concrete around the nora-tumor seeds

tbh, the other harvestable plants should get their "grow conditions" altered anyway. (like having a prefered slope and terrain height and condition).

hell, the devs could even use this to make robots walking across the ground affecting the fertility of it, and let "compressed, often traversed ground" grow "trample path tiles" with a 5 kph speed boost for robots and +1 priority weight for the pathfiniding algorithm.

but all that is a matter of how much time the DEVs want to dedicate to it, and how well they can optimize the terrain update server2client bandwidth.

edit:
btw, im 100% for making "chemical damage" be something good against plants, but in exchange beeing less effective against robots.

that idea floats around since... well, CRM made that traversing picture there after something i had asked him in really early beta.. just month later.
He also liked the trample path idea, and i was told it was still on the todo list when the game already was live for a year.

IMHO with all the code regarding minerals (switch from 8bit to 64bit), terraforming (realtime hightmap modification, automatic regeneration of original topography), and plant-layer beeing able to apply buffs (highway effect), server side movement correction and at least a rudimentary implementation of pathfinding ->

i see no reason why they could not merge in a 64bit layer that stores where a robot was passing over and have it "weight" the grow of "plants". AFAIK there is already a static (?) layer for plant fertility on every island.

the only thing that really needs a huge overhaul, is the way terrain data is sent to each player client - and that eventually with the intention to switch from "terrain update chunks" to "terrain data streaming" (i just don't want to imagine how big the layers.gbf will grow in a future with 100 islands...)