Because this is ugly, and it'd look better if those short retaining walls were replaced by a medium that looked like one of the two segments of each long retaining wall:
... They're doubled right now because I'm remodeling. I wouldn't need to double them if we had precision terrain designations, though.
I already saw a post on this topic somewhere on the forum, I absolutely agree. For game balance, it would be cool to have retaining walls made of steel for a height difference of 10 units of height difference and titanium for 15 units of height difference (although titanium is characterized in alloys as an alloying component that increases strength, it is good precisely in the strength/weight ratio, which in general would be appropriate not only in the space program).
Hashishish wrote:
I already saw a post on this topic somewhere on the forum, I absolutely agree. For game balance, it would be cool to have retaining walls made of steel for a height difference of 10 units of height difference and titanium for 15 units of height difference (although titanium is characterized in alloys as an alloying component that increases strength, it is good precisely in the strength/weight ratio, which in general would be appropriate not only in the space program).
This is true. I've gone all endgame and purged iron from my base- I don't produce it anymore because everything has recipes from steel, and I'd rather have only one iron-processing plant!
Except retaining walls. They stubbornly require iron, nevermind that real reinforced concrete uses steel rebar, so I trade for it.
Speaking of, I believe one of the biggest difficulties with making taller retaining walls would be... footing strength. But since all materials make arbitrarily sturdy foundations in this game, that's a challenge that can be completely disregarded, and now we need just material strength.
Maybe the steel retaining walls should be not just 7 or 10 high, but 3 thick? And the titanium not just 10 or 15 high, but 4 thick?
Or maybe the taller ones should be simply more-expensive but still steel-requiring versions, since you can always just make it taller & thicker and it will then hold back more... these walls are just painfully limited, and that's exaggerated by how hard it is to dig & dump around them.