I love the game, plain and simple so I applaud your efforts at producing a great game. Definite thumbs up from me.
The down side? Yes, I have one, and it's an important one to me. It's not possible to match up the colours of objects and you really should be able to. How about offering pre-set colours across the whole range of indoor objects by limiting wood to for instance, pine, light oak, dark oak, mahogany, rosewood and metal and having a range of matching fabric colours to mix and match with each of the wood colours? This will ensure that the pine table in my kitchen will be able to have matching pine chairs and a fabric covered seat which actually matches the sofa I have by the window and all of them will actually match the colour of my kitchen units and curtains.
At the moment, the interior of the house I am building is full of different woods and colours because I can't get them to match up. I tried putting a sofa in my kitchen but the wood wasn't the same as the kitchen table and the kitchen chairs won't match up with the sofa or the table. Or the kitchen units come to think of it. And the curtains.... well.........hmmmmm. :(
The result is just going to be a whole load of neutral colours in order to avoid a complete mish mash of colours in each room, or worse, a limitation on the range of furniture which can be used simply because they don't match.
It doesn't matter how many beds you add to the game..... if the wood of the bed doesn't match up with any other furniture in the room, or the bedspread doesn't match the fabric of the chairs, for example, the final result isn't going to look particularly good and the designer will eventually give up because there is no satisfaction gained from their creation.
EA Staff (Retired)
