First off, I don't mind the new building designer. Making building designs is fairly easy and can looks awesome.
However the issue is when it comes to defining what that blueprint is gonna be used for. Do you add more "workshops" so it works as a factory, sure but then do you also add "arenas" so it can be used as an arena? You can do that if you want, but why? A building blueprint with 20 workshops and 10 arenas would be huge and would never be able to do both things at the same time.
Freedom of design is good, but there is no need to allow players to make horribly stupid designs with a ton of different uses but is bad at all of them.
I suggest that morale buildings, military buildings and government buildings all get restricted so that they can only be used for their intended purpose.
Examples:
This would also make assigning volume for morale buildings a lot easier. Select the morale building type you want it to be, set the number of "levels" it should count as by assigning volume to a single "morale space" type volume.
Disallow adding morale type volumes to none morale buildings, to prevent adding useless volume that will be wasted.
Related suggestion: (Idea thread) Building Room Numbers instead of Volume
However the issue is when it comes to defining what that blueprint is gonna be used for. Do you add more "workshops" so it works as a factory, sure but then do you also add "arenas" so it can be used as an arena? You can do that if you want, but why? A building blueprint with 20 workshops and 10 arenas would be huge and would never be able to do both things at the same time.
Freedom of design is good, but there is no need to allow players to make horribly stupid designs with a ton of different uses but is bad at all of them.
I suggest that morale buildings, military buildings and government buildings all get restricted so that they can only be used for their intended purpose.
Examples:
- An arena blueprint should only be usable as an arena.
- A church blueprint should only be usable as a church.
- A housing blueprint could be used as any housing type building.
- Factory blueprints can be generic and used for any factory type building.
This would also make assigning volume for morale buildings a lot easier. Select the morale building type you want it to be, set the number of "levels" it should count as by assigning volume to a single "morale space" type volume.
Disallow adding morale type volumes to none morale buildings, to prevent adding useless volume that will be wasted.
Related suggestion: (Idea thread) Building Room Numbers instead of Volume