We have been wanting train/subway stations for a while, and I think Haxus even said he wanted to do something like that some day. Simply a building that lets you teleport to other buildings of its type on the same world.
And it has also been suggested a few times that airports should have "World of Warcraft-style flight paths" with helicopters or space transports.
Currently the blueprint volume allocation is weirdly complicated. What is the point of making a building with 50% arena volume and 50% workshop volume? It cannot be an arena to help morale and a factory that manufacture commodities at the same time. That means that such a building is always 50% useless. World volume limit is what matters now, so doing such is stupid. Any new player that doesn't know this will be unknowningly wasting world volume on buildings that are simply flawed by design. Why would you allow such flawed building designs to exist?
Yes it can be argued that the construction window should simply warn the player against using that building blueprint by showing all the necessary values. But that is a lot of information that needs to be displayed and taught to the new player somehow, adding to the already steep learning curve.
As mentioned in that thread, it is much simpler to just reasonable limit or simplify how building volume is allocated so players can't make building blueprints that are extremely wasteful and lead to confused players.
Sure adding transports to all buildings wouldn't hurt anyone right away. But it will add a bunch of new buildings to the public building blueprint exchange that new players can't use because they require transports. We need filters on the construction window to filter this a lot better, that is for sure.
See also: (Idea thread) Empire Building Blueprints List
And it has also been suggested a few times that airports should have "World of Warcraft-style flight paths" with helicopters or space transports.
(04-30-2020, 06:02 AM)voyager Wrote:(04-17-2020, 11:45 AM)Deantwo Wrote: I already think that building blueprints are too complicated. ...I am in complete disagreement with that thread, so maybe we're arguing from different foundations.
See also: (Idea thread) Building Blueprint Simplification
Currently the blueprint volume allocation is weirdly complicated. What is the point of making a building with 50% arena volume and 50% workshop volume? It cannot be an arena to help morale and a factory that manufacture commodities at the same time. That means that such a building is always 50% useless. World volume limit is what matters now, so doing such is stupid. Any new player that doesn't know this will be unknowningly wasting world volume on buildings that are simply flawed by design. Why would you allow such flawed building designs to exist?
Yes it can be argued that the construction window should simply warn the player against using that building blueprint by showing all the necessary values. But that is a lot of information that needs to be displayed and taught to the new player somehow, adding to the already steep learning curve.
As mentioned in that thread, it is much simpler to just reasonable limit or simplify how building volume is allocated so players can't make building blueprints that are extremely wasteful and lead to confused players.
Sure adding transports to all buildings wouldn't hurt anyone right away. But it will add a bunch of new buildings to the public building blueprint exchange that new players can't use because they require transports. We need filters on the construction window to filter this a lot better, that is for sure.
See also: (Idea thread) Empire Building Blueprints List