Suggestion: Add build templates that can be saved | Forums

[tiburnion]

TL;DR: Please add a feature to allow players to save building templates that can later be quickly dropped (including rotation) into position. Have it respect blueprint/autoblueprint status to aid players in industrial planning.

I played the open beta, and one of the more fun parts for me, personally, was optimizing my build layouts for production facilities to minimize space consumed and distance traveled to get the goods to market.

Once I found a build I was satisfied with, however, it occurred to me that I was going to have to memorize each one and painstaking place each building and road in the same spots again later, accounting for the need to rotate to accommodate the island's available space.

As a result, when all the buildings and their addons (such as the grain and pig sty) are complete, would it be possible to have it saved as a template that could be accessible in any playthrough later? It would, obviously, not show the template at all until all required buildings are available. For a system that does exactly what I'd like it to do in Anno, see Supreme Commander.

[Rfeuk]

I always thought that tool with a dropper icon should work in way to fully clone the building, but it never happened. e.g. 'picking' the wool farm just clones the initial building, and you need to place farms by yourself.