Originally posted by Quintium:

In the end, don't like it, the future coming change with options will make it your choice.

I like the attempt to try to restrict things so that more exploration can take place, and I personally have always and will likely continue to play with regular portal rules. I think that instead of doing it like they did, they could have went with something that makes a little more sense. Perhaps limiting the amount of portals one could make, or making it so that destruction of a portal doesn't give materials back once it's active, or really any number of other things.

[EDIT] I am, in fact, preparing to do a modded server that doesn't allow players to build portals at all. (Although as Admin, I do plan to reward [very sparingly] portals for certain achievement in game.)