After spending quite a few hours playing around with the building tools, it has become quite apparent that the tools give a lot of flexibility to be creative and create whatever you like.
This is something I have created myself after spending a few hours with the tools.
As you can see I have combined different buildings to create something different entirely, what I would like to make building things like this would be a way to group different buildings together, so when you move one of them, you actually can move the whole thing. I like that you can move individual buildings but being able to group several buildings together and move the whole thing would be great in terms of fine tuning everything and how you want it.
On top of this, it would be great if when you press M or want to move a building element (or anything for that matter), currently as it stands, the building moves out of its initial position to wherever the mouse cursor is. Personally I would like an option (maybe via a toggle) to keep the building or building element locked in its initial starting point so that it is easier to move around the given point without losing the initial starting point from where your building element started.
For example, in my building above, I wanted to move some of the individual buildings ever so slightly to hide some of the rooftops on other buildings. Like a small part of the roof was peeking through the building (therefore not looking too good), so in those instances, i wanted to just nudge the position of the building a little forward or back or to the left or right, just a tiny bit. But when I press M to do this, the building would move much further and i would often have to press ESC and cancel it so that I can try it again.
But so far I am loving the game, the building tools especially are remarkable and I look forward to seeing how the development team expand on the options available. Specifically I would love to see different sized walls, short ones, tall ones, for both flat walls, walls with details (like windows etc). I would also like to see some elements that compliment some of the pieces already available. Specifically I would like a wall element that gives pillars for the arch wall so that you can build tall arches and likewise, horizontal arch pieces so you can make wider archers (wider than the 2x1 size that is current). Also I would like to see roof top corner edges for the very corner of the roof so that you can put edges all the way around and it looks neat and tidy. But really the tools already in this first alpha build are amazing and I really am looking forward to seeing where the game will go!
This is something I have created myself after spending a few hours with the tools.
As you can see I have combined different buildings to create something different entirely, what I would like to make building things like this would be a way to group different buildings together, so when you move one of them, you actually can move the whole thing. I like that you can move individual buildings but being able to group several buildings together and move the whole thing would be great in terms of fine tuning everything and how you want it.
On top of this, it would be great if when you press M or want to move a building element (or anything for that matter), currently as it stands, the building moves out of its initial position to wherever the mouse cursor is. Personally I would like an option (maybe via a toggle) to keep the building or building element locked in its initial starting point so that it is easier to move around the given point without losing the initial starting point from where your building element started.
For example, in my building above, I wanted to move some of the individual buildings ever so slightly to hide some of the rooftops on other buildings. Like a small part of the roof was peeking through the building (therefore not looking too good), so in those instances, i wanted to just nudge the position of the building a little forward or back or to the left or right, just a tiny bit. But when I press M to do this, the building would move much further and i would often have to press ESC and cancel it so that I can try it again.
But so far I am loving the game, the building tools especially are remarkable and I look forward to seeing how the development team expand on the options available. Specifically I would love to see different sized walls, short ones, tall ones, for both flat walls, walls with details (like windows etc). I would also like to see some elements that compliment some of the pieces already available. Specifically I would like a wall element that gives pillars for the arch wall so that you can build tall arches and likewise, horizontal arch pieces so you can make wider archers (wider than the 2x1 size that is current). Also I would like to see roof top corner edges for the very corner of the roof so that you can put edges all the way around and it looks neat and tidy. But really the tools already in this first alpha build are amazing and I really am looking forward to seeing where the game will go!