Water Park vs Ladders

Jacara · January 2016

So i've been building a multi-level base and I found that putting a room tower in the center of the complex (stacked 10 high so far) and putting a Water Park in it running from top to bottom, with labels on each floor and a hatch on each floor, is faster and easier to use than ladders.
So my question is are ladders going to get improved?

04Leonhardt · January 2016

Wait you have to put hatches on the Water Parks?
Well fuck me that's why I couldn't do anything with it.

Also I'm hoping we get some kind of spiral stairs that can wrap up and around the Water Parks.
Like have it go from one Ladder node, around and up to the next, clockwise or counterclockwise.

ShuryCZ · January 2016

Wait, how exactly would you improve ladder? It is... ladder

and aren't there going to be animations for ladders? (means slower ladders then now)

Jacara · January 2016

ShuryCZ wrote: »

Wait, how exactly would you improve ladder? It is... ladder and aren't there going to be animations for ladders? (means slower ladders then now)

The main issue is right now is if you try to stack one ladder on top of another, it becomes a pain to get to the right floors as where you click doesn't always read the correct up or down.
I love the idea of a spiral staircase =D

DC_Darkling · January 2016

I see your point.
I sort of wonder how they want to make us open hatches (in theory flooding water in) since almost nothing in SN is double compartment.

ShuryCZ · January 2016

Oh, you guys have a point with the ladders, I see it now. I don't use them that much after all (weird, I know) And the spiral staircase seems really like a good solution.

Dokujaka · January 2016

Or an elevator. That'd be neat. Should probably be outside the room so you can still move around inside if you have a water park.

ChaosKnight626 · January 2016

Weren't the devs working on placing ladders anywhere in the room?

TenebrousNova · January 2016

ChaosKnight626 wrote: »

Weren't the devs working on placing ladders anywhere in the room?

You can now place ladders at the sides of the rooms in addition to the centre, if that's what you mean?

Jacara · January 2016

ChaosKnight626 wrote: »

Weren't the devs working on placing ladders anywhere in the room?

Yeah they can now be placed on any of the panels. The main issue is how they connect to each other and the mechanism of going up and down isn't the best as it is very easy to misclick and end up where you started.

The other issue is with the water park in the room it is really hard to get around the ladders as there is little room. I'd like to see the ladders on the walls when placed on the outer part of a room.

Taiphoz · January 2016

I would not mind a simple ramp/stairs that takes up with width of say a window so you can easily move from floor to floor they would be handy in any room actually not just ones with the park in them.

Vexare · January 2016

Jacara wrote: »

The other issue is with the water park in the room it is really hard to get around the ladders as there is little room. I'd like to see the ladders on the walls when placed on the outer part of a room.

I agree on this one as well. I think the overall room size needs to be a tad wider now that the new large aquariums are taking up most of that space. I get hung up on ladders and steps going to passageways quite often. I'm sure this is a work in progress since the tanks are a new thing in Experimental.

I don't usually have too much problem navigating ladders but I don't have more than one or two connected anywhere in my base yet. I stopped stacking the large tanks because of the issue of the bottom now appearing in each one causing me to get stuck on them, graphical glitch and fish swimming through each one but not me. Someone reported that bug so I'm sure it's being worked on as well. Ah the fun of experimental!

Taiphoz · January 2016

iv now started to do this as well so much more enjoyable to use for vertical transit than those clunky bloody ladders.

Jacara · January 2016

Vexare wrote: »

Jacara wrote: »

The other issue is with the water park in the room it is really hard to get around the ladders as there is little room. I'd like to see the ladders on the walls when placed on the outer part of a room.

I agree on this one as well. I think the overall room size needs to be a tad wider now that the new large aquariums are taking up most of that space. I get hung up on ladders and steps going to passageways quite often. I'm sure this is a work in progress since the tanks are a new thing in Experimental.

I don't usually have too much problem navigating ladders but I don't have more than one or two connected anywhere in my base yet. I stopped stacking the large tanks because of the issue of the bottom now appearing in each one causing me to get stuck on them, graphical glitch and fish swimming through each one but not me. Someone reported that bug so I'm sure it's being worked on as well. Ah the fun of experimental!

I think they tried to fix the graphical bug of the second floor room being visible from the first without a tank on the second.

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