ability to turn off demolisher territory visiblity

[meloen71]

TL;DR on map creation; a button to turn off the visibility of the demolisher territories

there is a more nuanced version where you could make radars see the bounderies partially, and perhaps only through a research. but as a minimally invasive update; a single checkmark to turn off the demolishers territory visibility in map creation/console command would work just as well.

I am sure this has been playtested and found unfun, but demolishers now are sadly extremely predictable for how awesome they are, and I want to taste the terror!

[CyberCider]

Maybe demolisher territories could be the “pollution” overlay for Vulcanus, so it could be turned on and off at any time

[meloen71]

Maybe demolisher territories could be the “pollution” overlay for Vulcanus, so it could be turned on and off at any time

though yes, if your concern is how it looks.

the problem I find with the demolisher is that once you understand how it works, it really does not have any dynamic gameplay left. you look at the map and stay out of the red squares.

I specifically want to engage with the demolisher by having to prod where their territories are. and being kept in the blind on how far you can expand.
though you could say by turning it off/on on the map view you could impose yourself this challenge. multiplayer instrumental play makes it so that everyone will use whatever tools they have available. a simple checkmark would be a difficulty setting that you impose on the players in your server.

and the more fleshed out feature would be; I would give the radar's a later unlock of the ability to reveal territories in part of their range. so you can set those up at the edges to show where you can't build.

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[m44v]

TL;DR on map creation; a button to turn off the visibility of the demolisher territories

Seconded. In case anyone is interested in trying playing without visible territories there's a recent mod that does this: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/hide-territory