Making force field caps per planet

[Qatu]

 Now that we've all enjoyed per planet turrets, how about per planet force fields? Seems it would still be plenty balanced out by energy, cap could be lowered to 4 for mk2 and mk3 instead of 6. This would make playing maps without chokepoints significantly more fun since as is whenever big attacks happen i simply delete most force fields from planets that dont need defending to quickly rebuild them on the attacked planet. There could even be a mk4 force field fabricator!

 I just wanna play maps without chokepoints without feeling like I should play with 2 homeworlds for increased force field caps to lower tedium.

edit: also, is there still really a reason to keep the damage reduction for units under force fields?

edit2: other option could be to add a modular forcefield to all command stations, effectively giving all captured planets 1 extra force field to work with

[Draco18s]

Won't happen.  It was already discussed back during the turrets-per-planet discussion.

It basically boils down to "you shouldn't be able to protect everything equally."

[Qatu]

 I guess I don't forum enough to catch all the discussions, but it's already happening. In maps without chokepoints, I protect all my border planets with an MK1 forcefield, and whenever a border planet gets attacked I destroy force fields on other planets and quick build them where needed. There's plenty enough to keep 2-4 planets very well protected at the same time right now, it's just tedious and not much fun switching around which ones are being protected every 20 minutes or so.

[Draco18s]

Here's the main case-point, there's some additional discussion as well.

http://www.arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,15795.msg174744.html#msg174744

[Peter Ebbesen]

Right. Let's continue it in the distributed defences thread. I think Qatu brings up a very good point with regards to how the intended strategic challenge of per-galaxy caps can currently be negated at the cost of tedium - something that is seldom good for a game.