Housing Lighting Borderline Useless...

Don't get me wrong, the lighting addition is really nice... but because it deals with the entire house and not floor by floor its useless. If I wanted to make a cozy, dark room with candlelight on one floor I can not do so without making the rest of the house pitch black as well.

Good Idea, bad implementation. Please fix this to work separately on different floors.

The only thing I would do to solve that would be add a bunch of lamps, small lights in the other room.

Don't know why they would think that the entire houses' lighting modification was what we wanted...

moreover, it seems the lighting only affects yourself..... ???!!! ^^;

I had never even considered that the lighting wouldn't be different for each floor until the patch came out and lo and behold. I guess it's neat that they're trying, but I honestly can't see myself ever using this feature, except maybe to tell spooky ghost stories in the FC house.

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Originally Posted by Nicobo

moreover, it seems the lighting only affects yourself..... ???!!! ^^;

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It says right in the window that lighting effects don't take affect for other people until you finalize your choice by clicking Okay.

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Originally Posted by Nicobo

moreover, it seems the lighting only affects yourself..... ???!!! ^^;

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If only.

Get a smart alec that likes to turn the lights off in the fc house.

it gives me eyestrain because the interior is dark walls, dark floor, no lights, and I can't see a damn thing.

Good grief, can they get nothing right? XD I guess in SE HQ, if you turn a light off in one room, all the lights go out in the entire building!

Thank you for this feature a lot of us asked for SE, options is better than no adjustment what so ever... y'all should be thanking them for even listening if you want them to continue to listen. Breaking the lighting by floor would be nice.

low lit upstairs for the mood lol

normal lit first floor just because

creep dark basement with all the spookies

just for an example ^_^ keep up the good work dev team!

Have a modicum of social decorum. Can't you people ask politely for anything without being insulting? Also, there's already been threads on this topic, much less belittling one's at that.

I agree that they should really break it up by floor. I was also surprised to use it, find no slider for each specific floor, then realize it worked as one whole thing. I'm now in the process of finding multiple furnishings to fill a room to make it moderately well lit, which really isn't much different than blocking the lamp with partitions like I used to. Either way, plenty of furnishings I don't want to achieve the look I do want.

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Originally Posted by Jamillion

Have a modicum of social decorum. Can't you people ask politely for anything without being insulting? Also, there's already been threads on this topic, much less belittling one's at that.

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OP is not being insulting, they're being frank. Saying, "Oh wow, I totally love the new lighting system but..." doesn't get us anywhere. The fact is that, while it's nice that SE tried to give us a feature lots of people wanted, because of the way they implemented, very, very few people will really be able to take advantage of it. If we want them to tweak the feature into something we can all enjoy, we can't pretend that we're happy with the system as-is.

Yeah, when I tried it out I was surprised to find it applied to all floors at once. Wont be using that feature.

"Borderline useless," no. I LOVE this, even with the flaws. Would I prefer a lighting level for each floor, yes.

I would just like to agree, and add that it would be really nice if lighting access was a setting that we could adjust according to rank. I'm keen to let everyone in my FC have access to lighting, but I imagine that would also give them all access to other functions and I'm not so keen on that.

Would like the ability to move the light fixtures them selves on the cealing. Would make partitions in personal rooms a little more visually apealing.

But my Dohman Partition has juuuust enough space at the top for my cealingfan. BARLEY, but just enough.