EA, can you make an Area Select Tool like this? (EA: yes)

4junk3000 · February 13, 2014 12:25AM

Either this or some kind of group/up group tool would be useful. I never reorganize, just expand slowly but might do more if I had something like that.

CookieKwan1 · February 13, 2014 2:08AM

I would find this useful

carpediem116 · February 13, 2014 2:16AM

This would help so much!!!

this should be bump daily.

4junk3000 · February 13, 2014 4:09AM

ugh does voting on your own poll automatically put in the opposite response? or did i just click the wrong one cuz i'm a space cadet? D'OH!!!!

doh1886 · February 13, 2014 5:42AM

I'm re-designing right now and it's so stressful, it'll be the last time I do it under the current system.

neuroheart · February 13, 2014 10:54AM

Yes, please. There are things I'll never move because they're too elaborate, and trying to put it back just so is too exhausting. And I've seen towns that are far more elaborate than mine! Can't imagine rearranging that stuff.

MaxxSpider · February 13, 2014 10:57AM

if you could select and store a whole are at once and somehow i made a mistake and stored my whole town i think i would have to buy a new phone as i can see this one flying through the air and smashing against the wall.

damian_mb0330 · February 13, 2014 11:04AM

Kudos!!!! Easier to move things around, especially when you have tiny bushs you want moved and it selects something else. Also easier to redesign a town.

DIrishBdo · February 13, 2014 1:46PM

4junk3000 wrote:

i'm one of those people who's constantly reorg'ing the town to place new buildings in appropriate locations.

but that often means tearing down piece-by-piece, some building that i spent hours configuring with decorations, plants, etc.

I'd like to see an Area Select Tool that allows us to MOVE or STORE multiple items at once. Here's how it could work:

- Once activated, the user sets a LEFT BRACKET, then a RIGHT BRACKET on the grid.
- The user then chooses SHIFT LEFT, RIGHT, UP, or DOWN; or STORE ALL.

I've illustrated the RED AREA SELECT BRACKETS in this screenshot. (ignore the "ghost tree" i selected to make the grid appear)

In this pic, the school, bench, swing set, see-saws, monkey bars, Willie's shack, and "ghost tree" would be included. The tree in the foreground at bottom right would not. (you may have to right scroll this image to see the right bracket)

this tool would function based on the existing grid coordinates of course. We set the perimeter coords with the brackets. Shift right = all included X axis values increase by 1; Shift left = -1; Shift up = all Y axis values +1, etc.

hmm, a poll button. ok, who'd like this?

YES!!

I've been asking for this exact thing for well over a year! It'd make reorganizing towns far simpler and less time-consuming.

I only fear the possibility of server issues (since EA seems to have an abundance of those with this game).

jasonbd77 · February 13, 2014 1:48PM

I would love it. I have needed a redesign since before Xmas and haven't started because I have to move tons of shrubs only to configure them the same way somewhere else.

LennyAdd · February 13, 2014 1:50PM

That would be a great idea, it would be very useful when I want to switch buildings from one place to another, like with what happened with Madame Chao's with me.

Jedihntr · February 13, 2014 2:22PM

When I really love a section of my town but want to move it to a more convenient spot, I take screenshots and print them out to use as a visual guide. Do you have any idea how cool I look doing this on the train?

So yeah, I'm all in on a this-will-only-take-five-seconds area select tool.

Crowsfox · February 13, 2014 2:44PM

Yes yes yes yes!!

I get so frusterated when I am trying to move around fences or bushes and it takes 20 taps to highlight the one Im trying to move!!!

shannontj · February 13, 2014 2:53PM

Now that we have a character finder, this is the #1 most needed tool. When I did my complete redesign last summer it took a whole afternoon just to store my town before I could start the actual designing! That's what's keeping me from doing another redesign now, even though I really need one. I've just been squeezing in the new buildings wherever...

tiifanyart · February 13, 2014 2:58PM

Love this idea

mr_skeltal_80 · February 13, 2014 3:25PM

This would be very convenient and time-saving. I like it... I like it a lot!

irishladsoca · February 13, 2014 4:01PM

Oh yes this would be extremely helpful. But EA has a hard enough time with all the bugs and glitches(ewww i said glitches) that I'm willing to bet it would crash the game non stop

vitorcr1999 · February 13, 2014 4:14PM

That would be very useful and it would also be funny when people want to move buildings with decorations and accidentally store everything. Can't wait for that!

1Mastiff · February 13, 2014 5:10PM

Hi 4junk, nice to see a neighbour here, I to would find this useful, as you may have guessed I am going through an overhaul at the min, so sooner the better for me!

neuroheart · February 13, 2014 8:00PM

vitorcr1999 wrote:

That would be very useful and it would also be funny when people want to move buildings with decorations and accidentally store everything. Can't wait for that!

Since this is the second comment about this sort of situation, it seems like the solution would be to make the multi-select tool for moving only, and not have a storage option.

Although I have to point out, it always confirms whether I want to place something in storage, so I don't understand how this would be a huge issue.

walkerrosewood · February 13, 2014 8:52PM

Definitely would be useful. Here's my idea on how to do it.

There have been other threads on this. My take on it would not be multi select in a "hold control-shift-click" fashion. That would be tedious, and if you messed up you'd have to start over. It would be more of a "link items together function." (not my idea, somebody else posted something about it) They would be semi-permanantly tied together and move together. With an option to unlink them. There are a few reasons I think this wouldn't be terribly difficult to implement.

To start with, the selection process would be akin to the desk top selecting function in old windows. You click and drag, forming a yellow box, let go and anything in that box is now selected. Remember that? In TSTO we already have a similar process to lay areas of pavement, road, etc. Just instead of pavement it would be a laying a "selection." (also think zoning in Sim City). Any objects within the selection could then have an option to be linked, stored, etc.

The linked objects would then move together. This is definitely easy to do, in fact it is already programmed into the game. If you've ever noticed some character tasks occur at a specific location. example, if you send Luigi to toss pizza, he first goes and stands in front of Luigi's. Next, try to move the building. You'll notice Luigi moves with it.

Anyway, that's my two cents.

EA, can you make an Area Select Tool like this? (EA: yes)

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