Newbie question

[Commander-S.R.]

I picked up this gem of a game recently and must say I absolutely is falling in love with it allthough it's kinda brutal mostly because of its finicky ways but quick question since I am a person who must have symmetry is there a way for me to build silhouettes/ghost buildings before actually construting them so I can now if my layout and placement is correct?? been having too destroy buildings soooo many times immediatly after placement because something wasn't correct and it cost money each time :(

Many thx

[Strategic Sage]

Second button from the left at the top of whatever building you place suspends construction. Nothing will happen until you click it again to resume. You'll still lose some money doing this each time unless you pause of course.

[ling.speed]

There is no "planning" system, but you can suspend construction of buildings when paused (second icon in building window), or use the bottom right menu when placing new constructuion to set "build from resources" which stops instant building. If you also disable automatic serach on construction offices in range, everything will stay in an easy to remove state.
When you are ready there is "construction offices assign tool" on the left menu bar that can help starting construction of whole areas.

Under Terrain tools you can also find "copy area" tool which can prove very useful in making symetric places. Also mud roads and walkways can be used as planning helpers.
Mud road can also help set the direction of start and end of a road piece to draw perfect circles etc.

And some less related tips: F1 can toggle snap to grid. F4 toggles near snap which sometimes can help place things. Hold ctrl for fine building rotation. Annoyingly normal rotation can skip steps ending in different amount of rotation at times so using "ctrl" is the only way to be sure buildings have same rotation.

Building accurately is not easy and takes time to get a feel for, so gl!

[Commander-S.R.]

Many thx for the answers it will make me even more hooked on this game :D

[Greybeard]

At the bottom right of the screen you'll find this:
https://i.gyazo.com/4637330a06f644ebe11de353b491faf6.png

If you have both auto-build options un-ticked, you can plan to your heart's content and nothing is built. When you're ready, you click the rubels or dollars button and then click/drag to mark an area where your plans should be built for cash. No need to pause the game for that.