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hide buildings
- Thread starter chucky24
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SkyRider99
Adept
I am glad you mention that @chucky24. This feature has been requested a few different times. If we keep asking maybe it will become possible. Anyway, if you don't ask you don't get.
SkyRider99
Adept
I have a feeling that such an enhancement would be a monumental change to the operation and display for the browser version. Having just rectified the Trader problem, it may be unwise to consider complex new features.
It would be a nice extension though.
chucky24
Seeker
well it would certainly make rearranging my city significantly easier being able to see where i'm placing things without having to work out where things are because of graphics..... cant tell you the amount of time have got stuck trying to move things and not being able to quite tell where on building ends and another starts
lilymarlene
Bard
I have never been able to come to an agreement with the architect, and this has forced me to become a master furniture mover--agreed, it can be difficult to get all your buildings in a tidy arrangement, but sometimes it forces you to remove something you really didnt need/like in the first place. My biggest problem is as chucky said, finding the edges of things--but also those tiny one-square items that lurk in corners...
SkyRider99
Adept
I have sometimes wished for a 2D/3D button. To switch views of my city between normal magnificent 3D, and plain 2D layout so I could see those pesky edges.
I think many Elvenari use ElvenArchitect for that, but is an additional separate site to navigate. Plus I find it inconvenient for large cities like mine.
I think many Elvenari use ElvenArchitect for that, but is an additional separate site to navigate. Plus I find it inconvenient for large cities like mine.
chucky24
Seeker
it would be especially helpful for finding wayward path tiles and as you mentioned those pesky one tile culture buildings
Gannet
Seeker
This would be a very useful addition although i think this also says something about the design of the buildings.
In the early chapters i never felt i needed such an option but as you progress through the latter half of the chapters the buildings get more bulkier and uglier, until you reach the point where your town is just one big blob, the street completely disappears and you can no longer tell where one building ends and another one starts.
In the early chapters i never felt i needed such an option but as you progress through the latter half of the chapters the buildings get more bulkier and uglier, until you reach the point where your town is just one big blob, the street completely disappears and you can no longer tell where one building ends and another one starts.
Sir Derf
Adept
Uglier, well that doesn't have any bearing on the question at hand...
Bulkier... Hmm... Well, given that buildings get progressively larger footprints, it only makes sense that they would grow taller as they grow wider, which would have them start to cover the view of land plots behind them. Unless Elvenar went the ranch house/strip mall architectural approach...
Bulkier... Hmm... Well, given that buildings get progressively larger footprints, it only makes sense that they would grow taller as they grow wider, which would have them start to cover the view of land plots behind them. Unless Elvenar went the ranch house/strip mall architectural approach...
SkyRider99
Adept
The Constructs guest race should do something useful for a change, and create a drone that can fly over our cities and give a bird's eye view.
Marike
Novice
Its my biggest pet hate about needing to use my laptop, a tablet is so much easier to move things, but my world is now too much for the tablet to cope with, so I went to laptop. Moving things and trying to find space to upgrade bigger buildings was soooo difficult without the hide button
lilymarlene
Bard
one caveat about storing once-used buildings in the storage area: when you choose to remove a building to the sidelines pay attention to how much pop and culture you're taking out of the game. its not a free ride, and unless you have tons of culture and population at hand you could find yourself unable to progress. I learned that one the hard way.