Another background layer

Shopped mockup, didn't bother to keep the cave one in grid.


Basically, backgrounds of this 'far-away' layer would not support anything in front of them. Maybe not even support anything but other background tiles to the sides, either.
So, a ladder built in that hall would still be collapsible from it's base, provided that it is not attached to any walls.

In caves, they could be used to avoid the annoyances of the free support of dirt. Bomb explosions could break large amounts of front-layer dirt away.
For constructions, they could be made useful by lowering their resource costs, or increasing their durability, as a tradeoff for the lost support.
Immunity to catapults/bombs, perhaps?
One possibility is making the two background layers not mutually exclusive, so you could essentially double the background durability of your construction.

Also, I think it looks pretty nice.

All that I did in that shop was reduce brightness of the areas and brush about a bit (forgot some to the left) to replicate the shadowing the engine already does on foreground/background.

 

Looks good. Although, from what I understood, you wouldn't be able to build a ladder bridge to close the top gap, right?

 

This is looking nice, but could it be destroyed in any way? I think that this would be a good addition, since the underground is always raped after twenty minutes of fight. I think that normal background tiles should be availiable to put on them.

 

Garciat, the far-away dirt would not support the ladder. In that gap, it could be managed, but bigger sinkholes would require different approaches.

 

It would do the opposite actually.
Right now if you spend enough time you can cut out background tiles and collapse an entire map.
With these in place, if you cut out a background tile there's another one.
And you can't touch it, and it still supports the mountain.

I was thinking about caves and how you can place anything anywhere.
I guess that may be the point. But there are many caves that are large enough that you shouldn't be able to.

I really like the look of it too.

 

This idea is visually very pleasing and greately enhances the illusion of depth. If implemented, there could be an algorithm that automatically creates this effect to any "closed" space that is bigger than x squares on both axes.

PS: Hey everyone! My first post here. Love the game!

 

I think the current system works elegantly and this would just be confusing. The sense of depth gives me agoraphobia.

 

Yeah they wouldn't support any blocks that you place, but they should support dirt and stone veins.