Town or compound?

[AMEI]

I personally prefer building a town.

[Minty Fresh]

Fret not.

Soon I shall build 3 more spaceships.
Not because they are needed, simply because I can barely see with both my eyes twitching.

The symmetry must be maintained.
Always.

[Azrael]

Originally posted by KalkiKrosah:

Why is Medieval Castle not an option?

It basically is the standard setup, a wall surrounding the settlement along with a maze with a killbox at the end of it.

[M.K.]

Originally posted by Smelly Fish:

Originally posted by Kulgan from Crydee:

Never a mountain - you must achieve balance with symmetry; beautiful symmetry.
Without symmetry the eye twitching starts.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1674672074

My eye started twitching because of that single square room at the bottom of your base.

And the red bit is SO off-center! how can he live with himself?!?

[SCARVALHO]

I tend to build different building with a 2 block distance of each other, but in late stages i usually put up a roof and make some doors, it ends up like a complex I guess.

[KoalaDAustralie]

I only build towns in early-game with wood while my diggers and constructors are mining my true base.
Once I get IED incendiary traps I put one in every room along with wood furniture, everyone moves in and deconstruct the initial base.

Safest way to build a moutain base and avoid infestation ^^

[deadsea]

Town with walls or a mountain base

[LYNX Scout]

Compounds. Eventually I have so many colonists even the fields start getting roofed over so I can grow year round and avoid toxic fallout. I tend to stop playing when there is an economic/food collapse and the colony is about 2 days from pulling dead raiders out of the cooler and putting them on the dining table. I play on "normal" (Rough? Medium? Whichever). so more often the colony collapse issue itself-generated versus 400 mechanooid caterpillars.

[Tohtori Leka]

Compound. Towns are bad for thermal regulation (so much wasted power) and because of toxic fallouts.

[Gentlest Giant]

Everything in a single rectangle. When another room is needed, expand with another rectangle. Even the outer walls will be part of this rectangle.
I mean, it's more efficient for materials, logistics and most importantly thermal isolation, so...

[Unreliable_Colon]

Barely contained chaos with no walls for defence, only sand bags and turrets.

[believor in Prawn]

Originally posted by AMEI:

I personally prefer building a town.

a compound is a mountain cove