Metal spots visibility

Hi all,

I just started playing PA for the first time today. My first match took place on a grey moon. Unfortunately it was almost impossible to find the metal spots, since they have almost exactly the same color as the landscape (at least to my eyes they do). Especially during nights there was no way for me to see them if I was not more or less fully zoomed in.

Is there a way to mark metal spots on the surface with clearly visible symbols, that might even appear as strategic symbols (much like in Supreme Commander)? If there is no such way, will there be one soon?

Besides that, my first match was kind of like jumping into really cold water. I had no idea how to build advanced factories until halfway through the match, and got my butt handed to me by the AI. I guess the best way to go there is training, training, training ;-) Besides all my problems it was still fun, so thank you for every minute you already put into the development of the game and thank you even more for every minute you're putting into it in the future. It already looks and feels like an awesome game and I hope, it'll get a lot awesomer in the next weeks and months.

I'm sorry, if some suggestion like that has already been posted, I searched the forums but couldn't find a similar topic yet.

Ctrl-N. (On Windows)

You just made my day! Thank you very much. I didn't look at the keybindings in the settings but at things like display options and didn't find a checkbox saying "show strategic icons" or something like that.

is it correct that atm lots of metal spots cant be built because of terrain?

Not lots, but in cracks and hills yes.

I wonder if the devs could find some funny reason for metal spots to vary in color.

So on moons the metal might be another color, or it might be another time og metal So that grey metal spots wont be on grey surface

I mean metal could cover many different metals in of itself.

I think that would just cause more issues than it is worth. I mean, it would be cool if there was copper, and gold, and iron. But it makes no sense to build a war robot out of gold. It would also lead to confusion as in, why are these metal spots different colors? do I need them more? Are they different somehow?

But they're not, they're just eye candy.

haha would be great to see how a tank of copper would hold out

Hey hey enough copper tanks to win the war!. in this case quantity over quality lol.

I have noticed that If you hit (f11) black turns to white and all of the cracks and curators are highlighted with green, it is useful for navigating tanks across bad landscape.
Donagh