Buildings & Attractions Shop item previews (less text, more visual)

[ninjadodo]

Your Feature Request / Idea
The commercial guest buildings, shops and restaurants, arcades etc are a bit drab visually speaking. The buildings are not super distinctive which is fine, probably more realistic, but there is very little going on even when you actually select a building and configure the things it sells, pricing, staffing, etc. It's just a dropdown menu with text. It would be nice if these buildings had a bit more visual flavour.

My suggestion would be to add visual previews of items sold, preferably as animated (eg rotating) 3D objects, but even just an image would already be better than just text. Having cute little 3D barbasol cans and nightvision goggles, juicy steaks and arcade screens with cool-looking fake videogames would add a lot of visual flavour to an otherwise somewhat drab activity, managing shop settings...

 

[ninjadodo]

Here's a mockup of what that could look like: small 2D or 3D icons and a larger preview when selected, perhaps rotating or otherwise animated.

 

[ninjadodo]

There should probably also be appropriate ambient sounds for each shop when you have them selected... eg restaurant noises, arcade games being played, bowling alley sounds, etc... This would add to the sense of those buildings being actual places where things are happening (rather than abstract entries on a balance sheet).

 

[Ahoyt01]

It would definitely add more flavor. I like this idea.

 

[GonerMcGoner]

That's a really nice idea!

 

[Voxis42]

Very good idea !