House expansion and my opinion on it

[Snowy Nights]

So imma just get down to it. The whole house expansion system isn't all that great. yard expansion is ok, you get a lot of open space compared to Portia. But expanding your house itself is too wonky, if you want a 2nd floor good luck because the foot of the stairs love to be against the walls of the interior and as far as i tried you can't really rotate the stairs inside the building. On top of that it seems you can't use the home edit in construction junction to edit the interior. Then there's the issue when placing the roof, not sure if its a bug or not but once you place it you can't really click on the roof to resize, rotate or remove it, you can only remove it by hitting the undo button. hopefully soon we get an update for home expansion because it really triggers me seeing the foot of the stairs to the next floor up against the wall.

[syzara]

Origineel geplaatst door Dex:

3 things I think could help improve the situation with houses:

- the showroom as is needs improvement, having to build a large number of individual items as requirements defeats the purpose of the showroom imo

- portia upgrading for those that don't enjoy the building system would be amazing

- keep the building system, but make it a bit more intuitive/easy to use. Right now a large number of players ignore it because it's so intimidating.

I agree, it really needs more ease of use, in both building and showroom options.

I don't see the point of having paintings in the showrooms? I just want the house, I can decorate myself.

Anyhow, I've been building houses since the first The Sims game and this game is so counter-intuitive that I entirely gave up on making a second floor. It's in theory nice to be able to do this, but I think the dev team needs to realise you can't put all game styles in a single game and do them well.

I'd be very happy if I could upgrade like Portia, or at least have Very Basic Non-Decorated Houses in the base showroom.

[Souldrake]

I'm just going to say I agree with most of the options presented here and while I haven't read all of them in detail I will add the following:

1) The option to add a much wider "door" between rooms to essentially make 2 rooms into one giant room by removing the wall (or most of it)

2) Less wonky roofing. Allow me to choose which direction the roof faces by which direction I expand the box in first from initial placement... if that doesn't make sense let me try this:

If I click my mouse to place a roof, then move the cursor to the left then forward/back the roof spine should be on the forward/back axis. If I move the mouse forward/back first, the roof spine should go on the left/right axis. Also allow roof dimensions to be longer/shorter than rooms to make it easier to match them up on non-square houses.

3) More compact stairs options. I know it's been mentioned before, but I have to emphasize my support for this one.

4) Outdoor pathing/flooring. Because red dirt isn't that attractive. And... unlike the farm plots can we get these to not allow the grass to come up through them?

5) Decorative plants/trees. I don't really mind if I have to plant them myself, but I would like more options for these. Especially the tree department.

6) A few more fence and sandwall options would be nice.