View from above

[Nake]

Could you add an optional aerial view to construction mode please? THX!

[info]

Flight Mode in AGS

[Nake]

Originally posted by info:

Flight Mode in AGS

Not sure what is AGS

[Schlappspaten]

Advanced Game Settings I'd guess

[Nake]

Originally posted by Schlappspaten:

Advanced Game Settings I'd guess

oh but I was saying a kind of 2d view from above

[Doc✪Hollywood]

Originally posted by Nake:

Could you add an optional aerial view to construction mode please? THX!

I'd like to have one or some drone(s) and see the world from different perspectives

It could also be a kind of buddy and in high tiers armed with a light weapon

[Fenix]

Once you hit tier 7 and unllock hoverpack, it won't matter, While a 2d overhead view would be nice, when your factory is 3D with multiple layers of machine, it really become more useful just to be able to fly around.

[LazerRay]

Fun tip put power cables and poles around all sides of the blueprint designer, so you can fly with the hoverpack while making prefabs.

The Hoverpack makes things a lot easier to work on large structures and evading hostile creatures when near active power lines.

[kLuns]

Unlock the base building milestone and use lookout towers.
Use the [H] key to lock a hologram in place and nudge if needed.

[tdb]

Originally posted by Nake:

oh but I was saying a kind of 2d view from above

The game is inherently 3D and encourages building on multiple floors. With a 2D view from above you'd only be able to see the top floor, or even just the roof if you built one. The already mentioned advanced game settings and hoverpack allow you to freely view your factory from any angle (though the hoverpack has a distance limit).

[Doc✪Hollywood]

Even while some advaced players do build multi level (on tiny part of the whole map) a top down few (like in the interactive map savegame editor) would still be *very* useful IMO.

[tdb]

I certainly wouldn't mind if the game's map showed the exact locations of my factories, railway lines etc. And it would be nice if the maximum build distance could be increased so that you could use flight mode to go really high up and place foundations with a good overview of the landscape. But an entirely separate 2D mode for construction seems unnecessary.

[Doc✪Hollywood]

Increasing the reach of the building tool is a very good idea and oftenly missed.

If the interactive map view could get integrated in the game that would be great.