Upgradable Buildings and Storage
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2018 9:28 pm
Building is for few and furnishing can be extreme finicky and require several reloads and pathfinding tests after you edit a room to fit everything you need and be functional.
It wold be nice to have the option to upgrade a Stormhouse to a bakery or outpost, a Snailhouse to a bar or a Stationhouse to a storage - all functional and furnished (the costs per item included in the upgrade - and you need to have the required tech level), with the option to save (to later upgrade your own buildings ) and share designs (workshop?). Nothing new, just the furniture already in game.
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Now, about storage... This "minecraft" way of storage is old and stupid and require several levels of micromanagement. We need a building to hold materials, not 400 different crates that hold less than a backpack (really, a Garru backpack or a simple chest hold the contents of 3 ore containers, and a travelers backpack almost one) to pollute the stuff we build. Could even use the upgradable buildings as way to do this - like, upgrade a tower to a mill to store all kinds of ingredients (but not 250 - way more) or a Stationhouse to a general storage with ample space (500? 1000?) to all the materials (could be random furniture and crates and the NPC would interact with the building instead of a random container or individual containers to all the things). Could even have a way to see how much of each material your city holds in a tab.
If is a bad idea or need to much work to do at least make containers bigger (or upgradable) and stackable, or put different sizes of containers (moar containers!).
P.S.: Please don't make the backpacks smaller in order to make the containers look bigger...
It wold be nice to have the option to upgrade a Stormhouse to a bakery or outpost, a Snailhouse to a bar or a Stationhouse to a storage - all functional and furnished (the costs per item included in the upgrade - and you need to have the required tech level), with the option to save (to later upgrade your own buildings ) and share designs (workshop?). Nothing new, just the furniture already in game.
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Now, about storage... This "minecraft" way of storage is old and stupid and require several levels of micromanagement. We need a building to hold materials, not 400 different crates that hold less than a backpack (really, a Garru backpack or a simple chest hold the contents of 3 ore containers, and a travelers backpack almost one) to pollute the stuff we build. Could even use the upgradable buildings as way to do this - like, upgrade a tower to a mill to store all kinds of ingredients (but not 250 - way more) or a Stationhouse to a general storage with ample space (500? 1000?) to all the materials (could be random furniture and crates and the NPC would interact with the building instead of a random container or individual containers to all the things). Could even have a way to see how much of each material your city holds in a tab.
If is a bad idea or need to much work to do at least make containers bigger (or upgradable) and stackable, or put different sizes of containers (moar containers!).
P.S.: Please don't make the backpacks smaller in order to make the containers look bigger...