For the love of God please improve build mode

[Pirate Beard]

Why do I have to build an entire room when I just want to place a wall, it wants me to pay $16,000 for a new room when I want a $3,000 wall. I feel like the government hiring a contractor. Why can't I delete a structure and get my money back when I haven't left build mode? If I'm 20 minutes into building and run into a problem where I need to delete a wall, that's like $3,000-4,000 gone or undo 20 minutes worth of work

Please steal some ideas from The Sims series, if I haven't left build mode I should be able to just delete the walls and get the full amount back instead of slapping Undo 30 times. We must be able to construct walls instead of being forced to build an entire room. I've tried the "delete wall" tool but it's just not working for me, it won't delete anything, I am in A11.

[VayneVerso]

You mean you want a dividing wall, right? Just to create a separated space, place furniture against, block sound, etc. If so, yeah, it was a little frustrating for me when I discovered that you can't do that. It was mostly annoying when I was trying to figure out how to do stairs, because I wanted to block off the death trap, but I eventually figured out a good way to do it.

[Pirate Beard]

Originally posted by TheWatcherUatu:

You mean you want a dividing wall, right? Just to create a separated space, place furniture against, block sound, etc. If so, yeah, it was a little frustrating for me when I discovered that you can't do that. It was mostly annoying when I was trying to figure out how to do stairs, because I wanted to block off the death trap, but I eventually figured out a good way to do it.

Not necessarily a dividing wall specifically, you're absolutely correct that it's also a major pain to do that, but when I build things in other games I like to place down walls like an outline of what I want the finished product to roughly look like before filling in the details. Like when people sketch stuff, if that makes any sense. Like markers where I want there to be rooms or for testing to see if a certain layout will work and be aesthetically pleasing. Can't do that in this game just because you're forced to build entire rooms lmao

[VayneVerso]

Ah, yeah. I get you. I usually have plenty of money by the time I'm building, so I don't care that much. I'm usually starting with a large, empty shell and then I lay out my furniture and build interior walls around it. I keep things pretty simple, though. Don't get real fancy. Lots of rectangles.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2456519299

[LatN's Strategy]

If you build in the custom map; the building is free of charge.
You then create a blueprint. The Blueprint will provide information as to the cost to place the building without the land cost. That is how the game is made for the build to be used.
You can also save the building as a rental property and then just move in and pay rent.

Hope that helps; see my build videos on my steam and YouTube channel...