Would people like the idea of a prefab tab in the Architect?

[Ramsis]

So, just going to throw this out there but for those of you who have played since... oh... FOREVER AGO you already have your special way to build bases. Personally I'm the kind of guy who enjoys finding a large mountain and building into the side of it DF style! I make a few 3 deep by BLANK long hallways and then I kind of ant network from there, but now that the game is moving forward in terms of content and eventual gameplay changes maybe it's time we get the ability to make smaller builds through a prefab system. All you'd do is more or less scan an area like a homezone and it will detect everything player built in the area and then save it as a blueprint etc, then you can name it and but a short description. Maybe it can save in an easy to store text document so people can share building ideas? Maybe folder placement for the more tactical player? It's a small idea honestly and one that I would like to think would be easy to do :<

Thoughts, comments, criticism?

[AwesumnisRawr188]

Good, but with the way the colonists build: randomly, they would end up getting stuck if there's a place they can block themselves into.

I would love it if that was fixed, as it's annoying to build geothermal generators that are protected good by hand.

Also it'd be nice to make my colonist cabins as they're all the same.

[AwesumnisRawr188]

There is a planing system, if that's what you mean. You can highlight tiles any way you want and they stay there until a colonist does something to the block.

[Tynan]

It wouldn't be hard to make the prefab tool as a mod, I think.

[vagineer1]

Umm, we might not on the same page here. You do know prefab and the currently 'planning' are totally different things. Or I've brought my 'high' expectations here again. Haha.

The 'planning' you mentioned do nothing more than highlight with a white square. The 'prefab' I supposed we're discussing here is to set out a floorplan of what to build/mine and use that as 'stamp' to replicate instead of doing everything manually over and again. Is this right?

It would be interesting if there was a tool like Prison Architects where you just click and drag a box over the area you want cloned.