Originally posted by Lucid:

Back on release my mates server would get real laggy near our home base because we did so much terraforming, and so many structures, we had walls, towers, it was nuts, it got so bad we had to abandon the base for smaller ones spread around the world. Has this improved?

Performance here has improved here, they reworked the entire way terrforming system a while back because it was eating up a lot of resources.

If you build an absurd base, it'll still be resources heavy, but the terrforming basically had a "memory leak" before.