Tunnel reinforcements - walls and floors

[Milosanx 716]

I've spoken to many people and I get differences in opinions and since I've been semi away for a while I'd like people to comment with their opinions.

 

For years, my main tunnel only had wall reinforced and no tiles collapsed. Then there was a reinforced floor change and I started getting collapses. People say they will always have a chance of collapsing even with everything reinforced (which I've never seen). I've had people say they just reinforce floors now and no collapses. 

 

Opinions, perspectives, thoughts, facts, rumors?

[SmeJack 5,798]

The chance of a collapse by a supported tile was always so small that personal experience was never really a testament since even if someone has never doesn't mean it will never. It can and did happen.

[Retrograde 12,013]

Reinforcing walls is the major deterrent, reinforcing the floors adds to that.

 

The unsupported walls collapsing (e.g. middle row of a 3 tile wide cave) was reverted as it was pretty clear how damaging that mechanic was to community projects

[Chulirac 244]

On 02/09/2016 at 2:58 AM, SmeJack said:

The chance of a collapse by a supported tile was always so small that personal experience was never really a testament since even if someone has never doesn't mean it will never. It can and did happen.

 

I can testify that does happen, had to recently mine out the same tile twice (within a few days of each other) in an alliance tunnel. Both walls were reinforced.