I play factorio for the visual side of the game, I adore the look of the industrial buildings and the surrounding nature but the health bar on these kinda ruins the look in my opinion.
It's quite easy to crash into trees and rocks accidentaly and after playing a world for a while the amount of damaged objects only increases and you cant really fix them, only destroy them entirely.
My suggestions to solve this would be:
- Make the healthbar dissapear after a while and reapear only when interacted with (destroying it, damaging it.
- As mentioned in the title, make the trees and rocks visually damaged (trees possibly wouldn't need any new textures as the polluted and dead trees could be used)
- Make trees heal over time, making the health bar disseapear on full health
- Or make a hybrid out of these mentioned solutions.