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Two ideas I've been pining for:
• Watch Towers
A simple tower which a pawn might "climb" above obstacles to get line-of-sight and a range bonus for their ranged weapon. It could be just like the watch towers in Stronghold. Construction costs some wood, metal, or stone blocks, perhaps about the same cost as a wind turbine but no components. The range bonus would depend on the height, so proportional to the cost. It would be operated just like the mortars are now.
• A change to improvised automatic turrets
Why are colonists able to build automatic turrets while still unable to build equivalent handheld weapons? Instead, i propose the improvised turrets should be more like computer controlled tripods, which can aim and fire whatever ranged weapon you attach to it.

So I've been spending too much time lately trying to find a good spot to build. I keep finding good situations located close to the edge of the map. They would work, but I hate it when raids appear right next to my wall. Wouldn't it be nice if we had a tool to "Recenter Map" around the home area? The tool would delete cells far from home, and generate the same number of cells on the opposite side. In effect, the map edges would move, putting the home area dead center.