[Suggestion] Ways to expand buildings more easily

[phort99]

It can be very difficult to expand an existing building because of the way building construction currently works.

Building expansion would work much better if you were able to:

Overlap a building's rectangle with an existing building (so you can expand a 10x10 to a 12x12 without making two build actions). The overlapping area simply wouldn't be built, same as if you mark jail cell zones several at once (the walls between cells are marked red but the cells are still marked correctly).

Designate a building without adding a door. The game could use pathfinding to determine if there are any existing doors that lead out from the new space, since existing walls are often shared with new construction. Currently I need to add a new door on an outer wall just to get the building to finish construction, and then remove the door afterward. I'm betting if you had four existing walls and tried setting up a building inside those, there might not be any way to finish construction.[/list]

[Ada]

I agree 1000000%.

[thekev506]

+1

[Ratsofatsorat]

Yeah, the IGF build actually allowed this I think. I'm confused as to why it was changed. Simple construction is now much more difficult than it used to be. The "REQUIRES ENTRANCE" stuff is really annoying.

[phort99]

Pretty sure the "requires entrance" is there to prevent workers from getting trapped inside a new building.

[Ada]

Yeah, the IGF build actually allowed this I think. I'm confused as to why it was changed. Simple construction is now much more difficult than it used to be. The "REQUIRES ENTRANCE" stuff is really annoying.

Really? I thought it was a huge programming mistake that they haven't had time to fix yet. =P
Thats interesting..

[jaysc]

The whole foundation thing was very confusing. I tried to build an office but it was too small so I tried to expand but everything just messes up. It took me a while to realize that you could replace walls with floors, but this still meant it's hard to expand just by one row.

[xnaught]

100% agree...need to be able to grab a wall and make the room bigger.

[Ratsofatsorat]

Really? I thought it was a huge programming mistake that they haven't had time to fix yet. =P
Thats interesting..

Yeah. Tbh I'd rather run the risk of trapping workers than have to deal with these fiddly requirements.

[xyzyxx]

My suggestion...

Scrap the "requires entrance" thing, and make it so laying a foundation simply lays a foundation, and doesn't automatically put walls around the perimeter.

[Stardog]

Or just let us use Material walls to build everything. But maybe that would require some kind of "roof" tool, in which case, just do what xyzyxx said and just lay base foundations, and let us build walls manually on top.

[Hezzy]

It'd be great if we could expand / contract the blueprint before it's built, as well as being able to lay down indoor walls, designate rooms and place items without having to wait for it to be built. Kind of like how Evil Genius handles building. Also if you delete indoor walls it counts as deleting the entire building, so you have a square that is classed as "outside"

[Uber_Hobo]

It'd be great if we could expand / contract the blueprint before it's built, as well as being able to lay down indoor walls, designate rooms and place items without having to wait for it to be built. Kind of like how Evil Genius handles building. Also if you delete indoor walls it counts as deleting the entire building, so you have a square that is classed as "outside"

If you want to demo an interior wall, use the materials tab and build a floor type in its place. It will demo the wall and replace it with a floor.

[Korthal]

Pretty sure the "requires entrance" is there to prevent workers from getting trapped inside a new building.

Yet I've seen them wall themselves into doorless cells numerous times...

[CurriedCat]

This is probably my biggest gripe at the moment. Building shouldn't be this hard.