The Float Glitch

[Jandor]

Can we do away with this at some point and have it replaced by a proper system?

The devs know it exists, they know we float items to achieve what we want, they even mentioned that they hoped they hadn't fixed it when they updated collision detection.
Surely it would be better to have the housing menu properly support doing it? Maybe via a 'Z-axis' button that when pressed lets you slide items up and down?

I will admit the 'wow, how did you even do that?' comments I sometimes get are nice, feels good to have (not so) secret insider knowledge, but it'd be even better if everyone could do it and we could all do it properly . Plus I want to lower some items into the floor of my apartment, and the glitch to float things higher is no good for that

[Eloah]

While this is good in theory, it might be more difficult in practice. The devs have acknowledged that the glitches exist, but as long as they aren't game breaking, they won't touch them. If they were to go through and adjust everything it could cause more issues, not to mention the development time and cost. I'm not saying certain things shouldn't be addressed, but an entire overhaul might not be the answer.

[Jandor]

I wasn't think of some big overhaul or anything, just a simple additional button:

From this at the top.

To this at the bottom.

Plz excuse the crappy paint hack job.

[Themarvin]

I wasn't think of some big overhaul or anything, just a simple additional button:

From this at the top.

To this at the bottom.

Plz excuse the crappy paint hack job.

Would be nice and they need a bank curve button too and maybe a grouping tool button as well.. so you can model stuff on the ground... and then select all and move it all up

[Arohk]

You can have that in the game but i can not tell you here in the forums. Maybe i make a little guide for it because it is a little sectret not many know and i dont share such power loosely.

[Jandor]

How very enigmatic.

[Jojoya]

How very enigmatic.

ToS and don't ask, don't tell.

I don't know how it works but I hope it's not by doing the things SE specifically told players not to do because they cause server instability.

[Arohk]

because they cause server instability.

because i am not that technically versed, how would it cause server problems whether an items position in your house is x7 or x14

[Almagnus1]

because i am not that technically versed, how would it cause server problems whether an items position in your house is x7 or x14

Abstracting this out a bit, it's often a case where you do something in system X which influences system Y in a way that the devs never intended, and because system Y is behaving aberrantly it's now causing system Z to do something weird which is in turn causing lag to appear in system A which is slowing down system B and now the player is moving slowly and nobody has any idea why they are due to the complexity of everything involved when all they did was something like place a flowepot.