If I had to guess the answer would be time and land usage. A single humidity and temperature controlled facility could likely produce huge amounts of densely packed mycelial wood substitute compared to a huge forestry area that takes many years.

Why didn’t they call it “Terraforming Mores”??

I think it’s more like

Healthy, Fast, Cheap, Delicious

Pick 2

12 years. Wiped my account and deleted it. Even the porn alt

I agree that level scaled enemies are immersion breaking. I also LIKE being able to return to the starter area and feel like a demigod sometimes for a sense of progress. It would be nice if some areas had plausible reasons to level scale. Perhaps an organization rivalling the PC which is well organized and funded, that is forced to equip it’s troops with ever increasing gear to counter your ballooning power. Something like that would allow for scaling in some places and not others.

I finished ixion today amazingly, glad to see it get a mention.

Ixion is fantastically fun but definitely a longer time sink compared to what is described here for against the storm (which I haven’t played but am interested in).

Ixion has multiple chapters and if you fail, the game restarts you at the chapter start or a manual save. I liked that mechanic although as a new player I made some design decisions that I regretted later on which were somewhat challenging to completely fix. Those slightly hindered me later on in the game.