I'm not keen on keeping this featured.

• Terraform is blocked across the whole map, rather than just in the middle. Needless to say this is bad as it removes a chunk of interactions and counters.
• The middle looks accessible to jumpjet, but it's frustrating to deal with. Jumpers have to spend one jump going up a little ridge, then another just barely making it to the edge of the mex platform.
• The clock has some typemap thing going on which breaks jumpers too.

NOTE:
An alternative version of the map could be done without the terraform block or with some mechanic that restricts it only in some places.
(edit mapinfo.lua to remove the notDeformable=true - same could be done on fifteen platforms)

The middle wasn't calibrated for access with jumpjet units. People can get there with air transports or send construction aircraft.

The clock is overlaid on features that block movement and construction to avoid people obscuring it by putting stuff on it. Respect the clock.
(blockers could be removed by editing mapconfig/featureplacer/set.lua)

Define GG.map_AllowPositionTerraform(x, z) to block a circle just inside the outer edge of the white area, and give that region extremely high hardness. This blocks things like Tremor too, it's all the same system.

Perhaps the clock could have a feature around it, like a low rectangular wall? Something clock-like. It would just make the impassibility more intuitive, as currently it just looks like a flat texture. It looks like units should be able to walk on it and the edge of pathability can be hard to see.

The whole crucible "pot" is meant to be unterraformable though. The cylinder around the outside at least has to be static to hide the lava circle, the clock should be static to keep it drawing right and looking like a clock, and if we could terraform the lower region up it would defeat the purpose of the mexes being covered by lava.

quote: Lava stays low for 6 minutes, then rises to cover the center platform for 1 minute in 7 minute cycles.

Another issue i've seen is that the rising lava gets above the aircraft mesh by a significant margin so gunships plunge into it and burn :/

like this? https://zero-k.info/Maps/Detail/19055#75702