Make planets save their last heightmap state

Might be exploitable?

The area around mexes and geos would need to be reset. Other then that, it would be fun to try. :)

i would love to have at least a few maps to play with this.

name them eternal battle areas or smth.

i think its a really nice idea

Offtopic but...
How about that defenders gets to save all stationary units in their starting area while the attackers gets the same worth in mobile units?
The attackers will be able to grab most of the map at first while the defenders already have good economy but no mobile units.

Also what happened to Deployment?

Problem is with picking what units you get .. also knowing defenses you could probably overrun them exploiting their weaknesses.

Maybe attackers should just get equal metal in storages.
And defenders could store all static crap in box .. and it could be displayed on website so you know what to expect.

But this should be the case only on a few special planets or some submode.

Agree with skasi stuff like this needs to be tested.

I'd go with the concept of semi-permanent terraform. As in after each battle just cast a 50% restore on all the areas of the map (as in restore all but half-done). This would make the ground more playable, while retaining most notable deformations.

With deployment I'd love to see every player on the defending team to get a bunch of flying boxes that can morph into some static defenses early on (e.g. an DDM-like turret with radar, and a long-range TL with AA for sea), while the attackers get some extra metal for the early raids and map control. The flying box thing should have a limited deployment range (so that it can not be placed in the enemy base). This would enforce somewhat asymmetric gameplay, focused around static defenses for defending team and around assaults for attacking team.

Also a funny trick can be done as in the more dropships you send the more starting metal you get.

Perhaps restore by a non-linear amount?