The new terraform is the new Heavy killer? Is it good? should it be change?

Let's start off with my battle:
http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/95552

I brought my Reaper and banisher in to enemy base, did some damage, no problem
Rafal[OK] decided to terraform the ground beneath ( not infront not behind, directly beneath) my unit, so far so good
notice, my unit DID NOT stop moving
the instance the ground was terraformed,my tank stuck and can no longer move. and helplessly fall into the sea pit and lay there to be kill and reclaim.

I am not angry that I lost the battle, I don't care if the terraform is buff, terra wall is fine (been used in almost every battle now), low metal cost is ok, faster terra form speed is acceptable. but drowning terran sensitive units is ridiculous.
imagine: dante charge you base, drown him, goli? drown him, reaper and banisher? drown them with ONE caretaker. you may even stuck the ship to land if you terraform the sea. you may stop ligh veh with your build power.

whoo hoo nice mechanic. boom you got a clay model game in place of an strategy game. NICE, real nice.

I am not against terraforming
I just think that at least a MOVING unit should not be stuck by terraforming. either with restriction over no terraforming under or near moving unit or slowed down the terraforming speed so that the unit have time to get out as long as they are moving.

Rafal[OK] believed that this mechanic is fun. But I believe that as a strategy game, Zero-K should be more focus on strategic than cheap trick like this.

I will take a break from Zero-K untill it is clear that the majorities of player decided to keep this mechanic OR if they reject, untill the dev has fixed it.

I will be looking forward to replies

seams pretty reasonable to me.

1) you were stopped
2) he still had stuff left
3) Engie power hoooooooo

I always find it hilarious if my units get terra'd down... Also I once did this to an enemy Goliath and it made my day. :]

But I admit the tactic is very very cheesy, so I'm gonna +1 Anthem.

the Terraforming was beneath and too fast, the unit has NOT STOP MOVING (I keep ordering move order, speed maybe slowed but not stopped)(confirmed in replay the unit walk right into the terraforming zone and stuck (i.e terraforming started after unit moved not before)). it was Stopped by terraforming IMMEDIATELY. there maybe luck element but it is just too much. the old terraforming is much slower

Thank you GoogleFrog. appreciated. Can I ask when is it implimented so I can go back to play?

Why nerf a counter for heavy units everyone is able to do but hard to pull off. I tried it once and if they are moving and not stationairy like here it is very hard to pull off. I am sure it is harder to counter reaper/banisher normally than most other unit combinations, besides sumo/grizzly maybe.

use skill to prevent -> keep them units moving, watch out near caretakers, conblob and kill them first. Keep units spread out so he cannot terraform them all at once. use own cons to terraform back.
use skill to pull off terratrick -> have metal reserve, navigate cons nearby, terraform at the right time.
Try to do it yourself, it is pretty hard and not only luck.

i agree with sortale. i endured it myself a few times and and pretty much cancels out the use of heavies entirely, because you cannot get them near rafals constructors, ever. i must admit that it probably does take a lot of skill and some luck to pull off, but the result is just too strong. trapped tanks are good as dead, and the trick is ridiculously cheap for what it does. even worse, its not a counter that you actually have to build in a factory, its built in in something you already have anyway, like your com. bear in mind, a reaper tank cannot kill a com that uses this trick, while it can kill multiple coms that dont use this trick. heck, the reaper cant even kill a single engineer. constructors are supposed to be weak non-combat units, not super cheap counters to heavies.

a possible solution would be to let terraform speed develop delayed, or in a quickly rising curve, so the first second or so would be slow and after that speedy terraform would kick in.

Sortale, blustering and threatening not to play is not the way to raise this issue. Nor is shouting at people who think it's okay. There is a pretty good consensus here that this tactic is too strong, and Google has already implemented a fix, calm down.

Terraform is really hard to balance for creative competitive play. Most of the actual uses for it feel exploitative. This on in particular. +1 to having a delay before it starts, we'll see how this plays.

Personally, I'd like terraform to be able to be shot at and destroyed, the way DT's used to be able to or even the way you could when it used to just be a building like any other and lowering its HP lowered the terraform completion %. The technical problem with this is determining the actual point that must be fired at.

Delay terraform by 5 seconds would stop this cheese. Googlefrog has done this to me so many times.

terraform for restoring and ramps is ok.