Climbing down the scaffolding over and over again

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this is good by me, reduce the animation or AI movement, should be equal to reduction in scripting error or collision bug.

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I’m for reducing the scaffolding animation and the up and down of the builders, but I definitely want them to keep the scaffolding as part of the building process. I think it gives a nice pacing to building and it looks so much better than a boring progress bar while everybody taps at the edges of the foundation.

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I’ve said it once but I’ll say my idea again. @PDanford Using your method and having the scaffold being constantly built up and having other charecters hand supplies up seems like a good comprimise in my opinion. Since I watch A LOT of construction shows, Like build it bigger, they always have certain people always on the scaffolding for those people who want more realistic scaffolding.

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24

Yes I do think handing up suplies would look really cool!

25

OK, really, really, really old post here, but as TR is doing a building sweep at the moment, I want to bump this suggestion. The current scaffolding system really bugs me, as the taller the building becomes, the longer it takes to build a row of wall because they have to climb up and down the scaffolding to build it up. Stonehearth is really great in that Hearthlings have to be near what they are building (no hammering the ground to make the building appear), but scaffolding breaks this (hammering the ground makes the scaffolding grow). Paging @sdee and @yshan…

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Sorry for necroing a slightly old post but great ideas in OP still.

The hearthlings should be able to build the first two levels/rows of walls without any scaffolding, maybe even the first three, based upon how they are able to dig out a 4x4 square thus reaching 4 units up in height.

This means that the scaffolding should go up in levels of 3 for as long as possible, and I’d even wish for it to go up really fast. The way the game works now is that it takes the Hearthlings longer to build scaffolding than it takes to build the entire building.

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bump again. when building small tall buildings this is extremely annoying. atleast have hearthlings build one story of scaffolding at a time. the time spend going up and down is enormous. or maybe have some hearthlings only bump the scaffolding up and others only build the walls