An Easy Fix For Towers

Just like the unique precursor that allows you to go to any layout within it's range, towers should do this by default. When you unlock a tower, you should be able to click any layout within it's range without pathing. This makes it so players are not ruining their own layouts by pathing through them, and it allows them to skip over areas they aren't interested in, while keeping the mechanics largely the same.

On a sidenote; there should be a guarantee to overlap x amount of layouts with at least two towers

One idea that i had last season was that you can instantly put tablets into a tower as soon as you can see them (send them by carrier dove of whatever for lore). Then you still have to reach and play the tower to remove the fog of war.
Additionaly tower maps themselfes could be the nodes that clean corruption. So even with insta juicing getting to them would still be relevant part of the game.

or placing tablets in towers allow to rerun already completed nodes, i mean, the atlas is kinda infinite so whatev.

i'm thinking of another thing, instead of tower, they shouId give us seeds, normaI item.

so you do the map, or not, and after that you socket that seed you got, into it, on the atIas tree on any map you want.

A big tree grow on the map you pIant the see. it infIuence the same way as tower do actuaIIy. Or if they want to keep the tower thing, just do an item who Iook Iike wood/stone or something and you see a IittIe animation of the tower buiIding and became a tower as we have now on the atIas tree.

with that you can infIuence the zone you want and easiIy overIap them if they keep the actuaI system of juice.

as for the fog and the Iink between map, it shouId just not be here, you wouId be aBIe to start anywhere on the atIas. the fog of war shouId be very, very far away from the beginning of the atIas.

if you have another idea i wouId Iike to hear them.

I much prefer the redo maps in tower range suggestion Henide had. I want to travel around the map and towers are one of the things that make that feel meaningful so I don't wanna just teleport to them once in range. But regaining access to surrounding maps after hitting a tower I think alleviates the "ruining my maps" feeling some people have.