Company of Heroes: Eastern Front

Eastern Front Mod (Read-Only) => Suggestions => Topic started by: LiefTundra on March 12, 2013, 02:41:00 AM

Title: Positioning Base Buildings
Post by: LiefTundra on March 12, 2013, 02:41:00 AM
Could you guys allow the player to position which way his base buildings face? Like the American triage center or the British HQ trucks where you click once to set it down and twice for which direction it faces. I just hate it when there's not enough space for all your buildings because they take up more space than they should. I don't think this will effect gameplay too much and I think another mod has something like this.
Title: Re: Positioning Base Buildings
Post by: Jeff 'Robotnik' W. on March 12, 2013, 02:49:47 PM
We could do that, but id have to see what the other devs think though

i remember in COH:O that they had such a system, where you could rotate the base buildings to make them fit better. It worked rather well i think.
Title: Re: Positioning Base Buildings
Post by: MonolithicBacon on March 12, 2013, 03:03:50 PM
This is a major issue with some of the older maps, and a lot of custom maps.

Since the PE came in (with buildings considerably larger than all other races), the need for larger starting areas became necessary. There are a good few maps that happen to have had this issue, and I'm sure that Relic fixed plenty of them, where the PE were completely unable to fit all of their buildings in their base area.

My point however is this: which maps have caused the issue? Surely it would be far easier to fix the base areas than adding a rotation mechanic?
Title: Re: Positioning Base Buildings
Post by: LiefTundra on March 12, 2013, 11:13:14 PM
Sorry, but I can't remember the exact maps. They were all maps created by custom mappers. I just looked at this other mod, http://www.moddb.com/mods/na1355827139, and I remembered all the time I had trouble putting buildings down. 
Title: Re: Positioning Base Buildings
Post by: TheVolskinator on March 26, 2013, 01:33:55 PM
A bit of thread necro. But I support this; it would go a long way towards fixing the building tetris issues so many PE players face, or all players on some of the older maps.
Title: Re: Positioning Base Buildings
Post by: Miles Dixon on April 16, 2013, 01:16:49 PM
The Axis armies need to have this done as their buildings are a bit larger and there might have no space to fill all in - I support this as well.