Terraformer

KillerTortoise1

Anyone actually know why they are removing the terraformer because personally i really really like it and wanted to know why they plan on scrapping it? Anyone know?

Requiemfang

http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/140858/do-not-remove-the-terraformer#latest

8th post down in that thread.

also before anyone starts another argument about wanting the devs to keep it... stop please stop all your doing is this

Jacara

KillerTortoise1 wrote: »

Anyone actually know why they are removing the terraformer because personally i really really like it and wanted to know why they plan on scrapping it? Anyone know?

Because the game map isn't procedurally drawn, everything is Static. Then on top of that each teraforming sphere is saved separately, so for example if you make a column of 1 sphere diameter, and 10 high, it has to save 10 units of data even if it looks like a single skin. On top of it rendering the entire map once in range and it not dropping out of memory once out of range you end up with huge amounts of lag and even the game crashing.

Jacara

Oh and lets not forget the Artifacts that are left from removing things.

Bobythebee

So the actual in-game transfuser will replace the terraformer as a new gameplay mecanic ?

KillerTortoise1

Thanks I had been wondering why