[BUG] Cant place lights on some tanks? (edit: Not-rounded tank!)

[Kristal]

Heyo, did I miss where in the tutorial/descriptions it says which tanks I can and cannot place lights on? Just built the most ridic beautiful large tunnel tank, HYPED to have a gorgeous combo of fishies and coral in it- NOPESORRY no lights!! TT_TT which is fine, but gosh. I cant find anything in the descriptions of the lights/aquariums that say anything about it.. so I cant honestly tell if its a bug or intended?

Anyone else pondering this?

[Skirlasvoud]

The developer has responded to this in an earlier post. It's intended, but regrettably not properly explained by the game.

Rule of thumb is that lights can only be build on tanks with sharp corners. Belfast tanks and other rounded constructions, do not apply.

I'll try to find the quote...


EDIT: Here it is:

Twice Circled lähetti viestin:

Yes this is intentional. Sorry there should be a little icon that says "can't support lights" or something. The simple rule is tanks are either rounded or can support lights, but not both.

[Kristal]

That seems super weird because the tank I'm trying to place it on is the large tunnel tank, which ISN'T rounded. So.. It seems like bug???

[Skirlasvoud]

Huh, that's weird. Can you tell us what SPECIFIC tank it is through the exact name or screenshot?

Otherwise, no idea. You'll have to rely on the dev for your answer.

[Kristal]

"Large Tunnel Tank"

https://i.imgur.com/xlOVeJW.jpg

[Kristal]

(Also, unrelated, but it KILLS me that the HUGE tank doesnt line up with the large tunnel tank (as its got 3 width walkway and the giant tank doesn't line uppppp TT_TT )

[AtemAndrew13]

6 years later, very frustrating that this is still an issue. On the third mission, unlock this big, rounded tank that I want to put EVERYTHING into to finish off the mission... but I can't, teehee, because nothing tells you that you can't put lights on rounded tanks - including the big Belfast you JUST unlocked.

[Sterling ARCHER]

AtemAndrew13 lähetti viestin:

6 years later, very frustrating that this is still an issue. On the third mission, unlock this big, rounded tank that I want to put EVERYTHING into to finish off the mission... but I can't, teehee, because nothing tells you that you can't put lights on rounded tanks - including the big Belfast you JUST unlocked.

had this exact same experience just now lmao
also, the dev/devs replied to this "issue" 6 years ago on a different topic ("bear with me" they said), and then addressed it a couple times more, but still no in-game tool tip to let us know about this limitation

[Twice Circled]

Thank you for the feedback guys, this is such an old post that I wasn't subscribed to updates and so I only saw this today. An update on this:
- The original post was about the Large Tunnel Tank which had square corners but could not carry lights. This has been updated and can now carry lights.
- Regarding the separate issue of a tooltip letting the player know which tanks can carry lights, thank you for bringing this back to my attention. It won't make it into the next update as it's already past the translation stage, but I will try to get it into the one after that.

Apologies for any frustration caused!