Live Letter Has WARNED: Collision is Changing

[Raist79]

It is ridiculous we have to glitch ANYTHING in this game with regards to housing and furnishings. Other games you are able to customize things to your liking. Like pictures on a chimney or furniture on LOFTS for god sake.

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

What they need to do is put official Z-axis controls in the game. If City of Heroes, a 17 year old MMO that is no longer supported by an official studio (nor has the official studio updated it in any way for years), can do it, surely a currently updated MMO can add a simple "hold shift while dragging to move things up and down along the Z-axis only" and "hold ctrl while dragging to move along the X-axis and Y-axis while remaining at current Z-axis" option. I mean City of Heroes's base builder allows you to do exactly that and build fairly amazing things so why can't SE figure it out with a team that is still developing for a gamer that is still bringing in profits?

Here's an unfurnished mansion made in City of Heroes that consists primarily of smaller parts arranged to make a structure:



I know code is different for every game but come on. If this 2004 game that shut down in 2012 (and was subsequently revived via private servers) could figure out a way to do Z-axis controls for their housing, why can't a more modern game, with an active studio working on it, find a way to do it for our housing system? The glitches themselves prove it CAN be done. All SE has to figure out is how to make it possible for us to do it with in game controls rather than glitches so that what once were classified as "glitches" become an intentional and usable "feature."

The whole spaghetti code excuse gets trotted out a lot, but it's been years since ARR went live. It's long overdue for time and resources to spent fixing the spaghetti code issues. Maybe then inventory and a glamour log wouldn't be so problematic.

[Kyrj]

Float now, for it might not be possible after this patch.

Or, now hear me out.... SE makes things like lofts actually function like lofts. But I get it, housing isn't a big concern for them unless it's an item they can throw on the mogstation.

[Rofel]

Tried to float a lantern yesterday.

Once the shelf came CLOSE to other stuff on the wall, even without fixing it, EVERYTHING floating started moving with the shelf lmao

We got glitches to work around your limitations and you had to take even that from us, thanks Yoshida.

[Jojoya]

Tried to float a lantern yesterday.

Once the shelf came CLOSE to other stuff on the wall, even without fixing it, EVERYTHING floating started moving with the shelf lmao

We got glitches to work around your limitations and you had to take even that from us, thanks Yoshida.

That's been an issue all along. You need to be careful when adding new floating items near existing ones, especially if you are placing the new items lower.

[Rofel]

All along? Nope, been floating stuff for years and it never happened before. I'm not talking about adding new floating items, I'm talking about moving a shelf close to items already floating, and see them moving without placing the shelf.

[ItMe]

All along? Nope, been floating stuff for years and it never happened before. I'm not talking about adding new floating items, I'm talking about moving a shelf close to items already floating, and see them moving without placing the shelf.

You've been fortunate.
For years I've been wrestling with already floated items snapping to something I just moved / put up : (

[Jojoya]

All along? Nope, been floating stuff for years and it never happened before. I'm not talking about adding new floating items, I'm talking about moving a shelf close to items already floating, and see them moving without placing the shelf.

New to you. Not new to me. I've been floating stuff for years as well and it's been a frequently headache as I pass a shelf under other floating items to place a new one and it picks them all up. It's especially annoying if I was using a loft to do the floating.

[Arielen]

If this 2004 game that shut down in 2012 (and was subsequently revived via private servers) could figure out a way to do Z-axis controls for their housing, why can't a more modern game, with an active studio working on it, find a way to do it for our housing system?

I think it's time I dig out my screenshots of the entire CITIES built with the CoH housing system. People even add fake skylines to them. My personal favorite function of CoH housing is the ability to put things upside down though. We made a bunch of spooky haunted locations by putting furniture on the ceiling.

[Jandor]

So, what's the general consensus? Is it pretty much as it was before?

Don't want to risk breaking my house.