Post 1.0 suggestion:
An item that allows the easy creation of a room. Right now, canvas walls or cubes are the best way to make rooms. I think this is clunky and messy. A better way would be able to have a sort of canvas floor that you can select the sides of and drag to make walls. Then drag again to make the ceiling.
Each wall and floor could be edited separately.
Sorry friend, but that is still just a canvas item. It really is not that hard to use, but it has a learning curve and takes time. Seems silly to add something that you can already do right now. Have you used the snapping feature? That helps making buildings more uniform and then you could group them and then copy and paste a new house.
If you donât mind me saying, that perspective is incredibly limited in my opinion.
A lot of features we now use and love in Tower Unite would âseem silly to addâ because âyou can already do right nowâ. For instance, the canvas wall that we all know and love was unneeded because you could already make walls with the canvas cube. Sure, it had a learning curve and took time to do, but you could still do it. Seemed silly to add canvas walls for something you could already do. Or what about canvas cubes themselves? You could already technically make rooms using the normal canvas. It took time and wasnât ideal, sure. But you still could. Seems awfully silly to add canvas cubes.
Ultimately, condos have been getting more competent in terms of structure building. I wonât deny that snapping and canvas walls do aid in building rooms but itâs far from being an ideal system. It seems ridiculous to settle for such a clunky and basically non-existent system for room building.
I am not suggesting a lot here. At a base, bare-minimum, I am suggesting a hollow canvas cube with slightly more customisability in terms of having each face set separately. Itâs honestly surprising this hasnât been done before.
I agree with you and your take here overall. I like the way we need to be doing things in right now - Saying things like, âoh, itâs basically an clunky, non-existent system, why keep it?â is dumb in and of itself. The more ease of doing things you give to the player, the more limiting you will ultimately make them, as they will stop learning things and relying on more advanced techniques. I donât think that Tower Unite has an need for something like this, just because a few people see it as an clunky, weird system. While Iâm usually all in for ease of building things, I canât give this particular suggestion my vote - Itâs just not useful. Although to be fair, to not be entirely one sided, SlickWine does have one point on their side, that not adding something that can already be done is an weird excuse - However, again, I donât think that justifies the need for⌠Well, this. There have been multiple instances in video game history that have already proven that going all in on making things easy enough that literal babies could do it is an bad idea and this isnât any different.
This is also a bad take. I respect seeing my points but claiming that adding a system to complement an overall clunky one now would âlimit the playerâ is just flat out baffling. Itâs, I dare say, an absolute cope.
Itâs not a âif it ainât broke, donât fix itâ situation because it certainly is broken. If you donât think it is, itâs because youâve gotten used to how things are. I want for nothing more than to have unlimited free time to line all my canvas walls up perfectly. Unfortunately, I have a life and therefore do not have the time. I go on Tower Unite to unwind in the short amount of time I can have off. The last thing I want is to be frustrated by a terrible system like how it is now.
This whole thing of âlimiting the playerâ is not some 4D-chess move in forced creativity - itâs just poor design. People will be creative and make cool things regardless of whether the tools to make those things are intuitive or not. Adding something to make the experience better would only serve to make the game more fun and more accessible to players with less free time and those who struggle with the game (or as you imply: babies). Suggesting that it forces people to be better at the game in its current state is ridiculous as condo building mechanics are not competitions but rather supposed to be a fun part of the game that fosters peopleâs creative sides. Adding a better item geared towards making rooms will not change that - just improve it.
Also, itâs not useful? What planet are you living on? I am working on a condo which is supposed to be a large structure with many, many rooms. I would find it incredibly useful. And my friends, who are doing similar types of builds, have expressed similar concerns and suggestions for such an item to be made. If you donât find it useful, then thatâs on you. You simply wouldnât use it and thatâs fine. But there are plenty that would. I donât see the point in commenting on a suggestion saying that it is âdumbâ just because you arenât the type of player to use it. Thereâs some Condo IO items that I wouldnât use. But I recognise that there are players that do use them and find them helpful. I wouldnât go and insult them and their suggestion, calling it dumb, just because I personally wouldnât find it useful in the way I play. I suggest you think before you engage on these kinds of discussions about what you would get out of it compared to how others would.
Once again you can do that in game already, buy a canvas hole and set in to the square variant and add a canvas wall to one side. The problem becomes having to make windows, then you need more wall or cubes.
No one said that, you made this up. No one made fun of you, we just said the idea makes no real sense. Im sorry people not agreeing with you hurts you so badly, I wish you well.
Canvas walls DID have a use over the canvas cube. Back when it was added, it was the only item with world align. Now that cubes and most other canvases have WA, Itâs a redundant item. (save for it being really thin, which maybe could be used for something idk.)
Normal canvas also has no material support, only custom image support.
It would be nice to have some sort of automated room building script type thing, define width, length, and height of room, define wall, floor and ceiling thickness, then it would automatically place cubes in those positions for you.
No new items would have to be added, it would just be a streamlined automation of the existing system (albeit limited to only square and rectangular rooms.) A good analogy would be those worldedit mods for minecraft where you can make a big shape in an instant.
Once you get good at this stuff you can make a room really quick, but I understand the convenience.
No, no. This wasnât a response to you.
I didnât make anything up. They literally used the word âdumbâ.
This is a nice idea. It doesnât necessarily have to be a new item or anything of the sort. Just a better way to make rooms that feels like some thought went into it. My biggest gripe right now is that it feels like, even with snapping, you have a use a system that was designed for placing furniture in maps to make whole buildings. Something to make that a more streamlined process would be excellent.