corner pitched roof tracking is highly annoying

[The LISC]

basically just a rant about how difficult is building a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ roof specially if you use a corner pitched roof.

If you are interested read my history:

im building the roof of my house one that i was hoping would be the final one so i made it big.

once i finish with the 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors i start the roof, first wave, 4 pitched roof corners, and 14 "normal" pitched roofs, i have basically no problem doing this with the exception of 1 of the corner pitched roofs putting itself backwards 3 times before it was ok.

there was still space to fill before it would close naturally so i put another set of "normal" pitched roofs and when i go to put the next 4 corner pitched roofs, its a fight, the tracking puts it backwards, facing the wrong way, overlapping the one below it, after a highly annoying fight and reducing my mouse DPI so i can put them the way i want i have 3 corners ready, but the 4th decided to fight back.

i already got a feeling on what to do so the roof gets in the position i want, but this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ corner doesnt want to fit in, it says "Cannot be placed here" what do you mean you cannot be placed here, i already placed 3 of you in the same way with the same materials, fine i say i demolish the 2 "normal" roofs on the side so its alone, still the same message, i demolish the base (which is the same one on the other 3 that i already put down) and re build it, still "Cannot be placed here" maybe its the "building" points on the top of the screen, i still have over 200 on all of them, maybe i have to look at it from a different angle (in the past when building a previous roof i also had this problem but it would fix itself depending on the angle i was looking at it) still cannot be placed.

FK this roof, im beat, im gonna demolish the entire roof and build it with the smaller triangle ones to see if that helps, or if anyone has other suggestions, im open to them, i basically have all of the building memetics unlocked with the expection of the "enhanced doors & windows" & the large garage

[Mad Hatter]

Totally agree, nothing to add. Placing roof objects is way too much of a pain in the butt in this game even in flight mode.

[Gyson]

It used to work a lot better. It's odd that they went this direction and seem to be comfortable enough to release it.

If it helps, getting these pieces to work reliably often depends on building that section of the structure in the correct order. Sometimes you need to insert temporary pieces until you have the permanent assets in place, and then you can safely remove the temporary ones after.

For example, a corner roof piece will sometimes refuse to fit unless you remove the walls beneath it first and add in a temporary ceiling piece. Then once the corner piece is in place you can add the walls back in and remove the ceiling piece.

Other times it's just a matter of finding the correct one-in-a-million angle that it'll snap from.

It's extra hoops you shouldn't have to go through but it's what we're stuck with until/unless they improve it.

[Blackdragonbird]

The building of this game needs a ton of rework. It's like it's in alpha stage yet.

[The LISC]

Originally posted by Gyson:

It used to work a lot better. It's odd that they went this direction and seem to be comfortable enough to release it.

If it helps, getting these pieces to work reliably often depends on building that section of the structure in the correct order. Sometimes you need to insert temporary pieces until you have the permanent assets in place, and then you can safely remove the temporary ones after.

For example, a corner roof piece will sometimes refuse to fit unless you remove the walls beneath it first and add in a temporary ceiling piece. Then once the corner piece is in place you can add the walls back in and remove the ceiling piece.

Other times it's just a matter of finding the correct one-in-a-million angle that it'll snap from.

It's extra hoops you shouldn't have to go through but it's what we're stuck with until/unless they improve it.

thank you, i was eating lunch and then i was gonna demolish the whole roof but i read your comment, tried the ceiling piece and the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ corner gave up and finally snapped in place

[Gyson]

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