Retaining walls are really tedious to place

291 votes

Retaining walls should have a drag placing mode like pipes, rather than having to place individual segments and corners, which is very slow going.

Under consideration Suggested by: Andy Walker (03 Jun, '22) • Upvoted: 2 days ago • Comments: 14

Comments: 14

04 Jun, '22
Willvette
agreed, but leave the bits and pieces for finite placement for when the drag and drop doesn't work.
1
05 Jun, '22
Jamie
Yes. And I think the wall should look continuous instead of the separate piece look. Reminds me of the top of old castles. It doesn't look right in this game.
Also, I think the land should be adjusted on the side of the water so I see a vertical wall down to the water.
2
14 Jun, '22
Jamie
Ok, I placed the small wall pieces the wrong way. Oops.
14 Jun, '22
Charlie
Possibly add a t2 mining control building that builds the retaining walls as it mines (consumes materials).
5
19 Jun, '22
james
I like @Charlie's idea that would be very useful
1
08 Jul, '22
Darkaiser
Yeah...Charlie's idea would be cool. I like the OP as well.
18 Jul, '22
Gerrit Geldenhuys Merged
Basically build barriers and retaining walls like pipes. It's very tedious if you want to quick deliver a long wall and you have to click on every section and then click on quick deliver.
1
24 Jul, '22
Captain Zuff Admin
"Click and drag barriers and retaining walls" (suggested by Gerrit Geldenhuys on 2022-07-18), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
10 Aug, '22
Noel
I agree with this. It would also make it much neater if you could place the retaining wall on the side of the dock or pier, but currently you cannot build on top of it, for example cannot place a seawater pump over a retaining wall.
3
25 Aug, '22
KB
I agree with both the OP and Charlie on this one.
1
27 Aug, '22
kory
I usually place 3 or 5 then copy and paste them but corners are tedious especially because many times its hard to see which way the corner is oriented.
07 Sep, '22
Alodarn
I find a planned pipe works better - bonus is you don't have to actually build it
29 Mar, '23
BladeSe7en
Being able to drag and draw full rows of wall segments at a time would be fantastic. You can even remove the corner, T, and cross segments completely and just have the wall segments automatically snap in place at corners and intersections.
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02 Jul, '23
Szteinoo
Could see this idea really fantastic!