Placing fences is too annoying

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They really need to change how to place down fences. I get nothing but frustrated and have to destroy some over and over to get them placed just right. It's very hard to see their position in a grassy or moss covered area when placing.

Anyone else have this problem?

[Rimesrea]

Same problem here. It's especially hard when you're building fence on a grassy place because you cant see it clearly.

[SlowToad]

Would be a lot easier if they just gave us a "Wall" that goes on the ground instead of that blasted Fence foundation.

[Nibiru]

I totally agree. I even turned off all ground clutter hoping I could see the fence foundation better but still couldn't in most places. I did find though if you have one fence foundation placed then you stand back a bit and face it when placing the next one then it "usually" just snaps on, but for me it was always making sure that first one was lined up properly.

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Originally posted by Nibiru:

I totally agree. I even turned off all ground clutter hoping I could see the fence foundation better but still couldn't in most places. I did find though if you have one fence foundation placed then you stand back a bit and face it when placing the next one then it "usually" just snaps on, but for me it was always making sure that first one was lined up properly.

I feel like placing a fence would be 1000x easier if they just allowed us to attach it to the last piece, then use our mouse scroll wheel to rotate it to the correct angle that we want.

[BellatorMonk]

Agreed. I made my first Dino pen the other day and wow..the mot frustrating building experience on a hilly and grassy area. Could never tell when fence pieces were snapping properly or if they were overlapping with some other section.
The result was a fence line that is disjointed and had major section holes where I had to add another fence section "layer" to "patch" it up. In some cases even though the fence line snapped and I was able to build the 1st level of fencing properly, the 2nd level would say the other section was obstructing one another..
Just add it to the list to fix once we get some of the other major items cleaned up devs. Thanks.

[DredSilent]

All of building needs a revamp. Pillars hardly every connect and work either, placing them is just as annoying.

[spaznaz]

fence foundations snap, you know? Once you have the first one placed, look at the end you want to build on to. Wiggle the mouse around until it snaps, then you can make very fine movements to change the orientation in 45° steps. The spacing will be perfect and you can build very neat and straight walls that some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ can then break into when you´re offline.

[☕Skeptical Genie☕]

+1 creating perimeter walls is hard af atm

[🌸 Yuika 🌸]

I've had my fair share of frustration over this issue, but this link helped me understand the fence facing a bit better. http://s123.photobucket.com/user/MightyLink/media/placingfences_zpscymipqqm.png.html

[Nibiru]

My dino pen is 6 x 8 and 3 walls high and it took nearly as much time just getting the fence foundations all lined up as it did getting all the wood for the walls. I can be done as I finally did it and it looks nice.. but needs serious attention to make it easier to see the foundations.

Truthfully I think this problem is part of a much larger problem that other things like DINO Pathfinding and even our own navigation on the map but the world has many places we seem to walk into the ground like when going up hills and if your house is build near one of these and you try to place fence foundations then since it's not straight then it looks like the foundation goes through the rock or you might not can see it cause the end you need to attach the next piece is hidden under the ground..

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Originally posted by spazfokel:

fence foundations snap, you know? Once you have the first one placed, look at the end you want to build on to. Wiggle the mouse around until it snaps, then you can make very fine movements to change the orientation in 45° steps. The spacing will be perfect and you can build very neat and straight walls that some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ can then break into when you´re offline.

Yes they snap but there's only like 3 ways you can rotate it currently from that snap and it's pretty frustrating. I wish they would make it so once it "snaps" you can use your mouse wheel to change the angle to what ever you wanted. It'd be a lot easier for people.

[BellatorMonk]

Originally posted by spazfokel:

fence foundations snap, you know? Once you have the first one placed, look at the end you want to build on to. Wiggle the mouse around until it snaps, then you can make very fine movements to change the orientation in 45° steps. The spacing will be perfect and you can build very neat and straight walls that some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ can then break into when you´re offline.

Anyttime I had a section that actually snapped at 45 degrees I would get and obstruction message when trying to add the fence.

Try building in a grassy area..you can't see ♥♥♥♥ snapping in place properly..it's green on green or mostly buried in the dirt/grass.

[SimpleSiren]

Do it at night Swear it makes it 1000000000000000000000X times easier. Who ever decided to make it light green is well you fill in the blanks lol. Light green on light green grass yea that sounds like a good idea, Smacked upside the head instantly.

[☕Skeptical Genie☕]

it would be cool also a "drag & drop" feature... like if i want to place 6x fence at time.

[🌸 Yuika 🌸]

Originally posted by AMO Creedance:

Originally posted by spazfokel:

fence foundations snap, you know? Once you have the first one placed, look at the end you want to build on to. Wiggle the mouse around until it snaps, then you can make very fine movements to change the orientation in 45° steps. The spacing will be perfect and you can build very neat and straight walls that some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ can then break into when you´re offline.

Yes they snap but there's only like 3 ways you can rotate it currently from that snap and it's pretty frustrating. I wish they would make it so once it "snaps" you can use your mouse wheel to change the angle to what ever you wanted. It'd be a lot easier for people.

Actually you can rotate it in directions. All have 45° angle.