(POLL) How many portals should we have?

I’d love to just see all portals cost the same and could be any size as long as both sides matched.

An average cost on any size would definitely make connecting the universe together a lot easier.

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Also in response to this, this is the one area where the real-world expense of the portals come into play.

The maintenance of persistent connections between the various datacenters means that the cost of maintaining portals in the real world vs. the cost of maintaining the game is somewhat misaligned in the current compromise system between how things work in-game and the IRL costs.

There’s a more complete description from one of the devs buried around here somewhere but the current in-game representation of this as sort of the “shape of the universe” helps average things out. In the real world side it would be cheaper to maintain some direct T1 - T6 portals than any portals at any world level between regions.

I guess if this wasn’t the case it would be pointless to break the boundless universe into earth “regions” at all. Then it would probably already be as you describe.

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