Terraforming questions

[Question]

-Is there any way to set a former to auto-plant forests near a base? And ONLY forests. Doing it manually for every base is too time consuming.

-Leveling a tile reduces the rockiness...so how do i make a tile more rocky?

-How do i "close up" a volcano, etc?

 

[Kilkakon]

1. No sorry!
2. I don't think that you can from memory. I'm not sure if Tectonic Payloads would do it or not, probably not.
3. Don't think you can do that one either.

Sorry to be a wet blanket!

 

[Question]

Any chance of modding those to make it possible?

 

[chuft]

Unlikely.

Why do you want to make a tile more rocky?

 

[xchen08]

Presumably so you can mine and crawl. But most maps have a solid row of rocky tiles at one of the poles or both, so you should never feel short of mines to crawl.

 

[Question]

Unlikely.

Why do you want to make a tile more rocky?

Well its just in case i made a base/captured a base without sufficient rocky tiles in its vicinity.

 

[chuft]

Just wondering what you use rocky tiles for.

I don't use crawlers for harvesting resources, or if I do, it's very few - less than one per base, and only when I have huge wilderness areas with bonus tiles that are not in any base radius. For mineral production I tend to use boreholes and forests. For defense, bunkers are better than rocky squares since they will stop an enemy unit entering them even if they enter via a road, and they protect stacked units from spillover fire.

 

[Question]

Derp i just found out that you can go to preferences and set formers to only planting forests when automated.

 

[Kilkakon]

Ah well that's a bonus! Thanks for the tip.

 

[Petek]

Derp i just found out that you can go to preferences and set formers to only planting forests when automated.

Unfortunately, turning off all Former automation except Plant Forests will not cause Formers to plant forests. I tested this a long time ago. They will still plant mostly Farms/Solar Collectors and Farms/Mines. Some attempts to encourage Formers to plant more Forests include:

1. Modding the game so that Mines can't be planted right away.
2. Changing basic Forest yield from 1-2-1 to 2-2-1.

IIRC, both ideas work, although #2 benefits the human player even more than the AI.

 

[Question]

Why doesnt it work?

 

[Petek]

Why doesnt it work?

It's hard to give a reason other than "That's how it was programmed."

 

[Volcanon]

Formers will also do such things when automated as raise land when I've told them not to (destroying a good portion of the jungle in the process) when I don't even have the pre-requisites to actually raise land in the first place!

 

[Jolly Rogerer]

Never automate formers!

 

[Kilkakon]

I automate them... but then again I don't play competitively and all my real life friends aren't as good at the game as I am.