Building idea

[Jfloyd]

A friend and I were thinking about a unique way to handle houses.
Instead of having pre determined houses that one can build anywhere, have them determined by the their size, and the terrain they're on.
Example:
In the build menu, have a houses panel, with small, medium, large, and unecessary.
If you choose small, and build it on forest, you'll get a lean to.
If you chose small, and build it on a mudflat, you'd get maybe a small square house that requires clay.
If you chose small, and build it on stone, a more useful house would be available to build (implying Jorbs want for villages to be better than the wilderness)
The same would apply through all sizes and terrains.

Thoughts?

[Winterbrass]

No, thank you. If I wanted to construct a small house out of bricks in the middle of the wilderness and small brick houses were an option, I wouldn't want the game to determine that I wanted a lean-to.

[Jfloyd]

No, thank you. If I wanted to construct a small house out of bricks in the middle of the wilderness and small brick houses were an option, I wouldn't want the game to determine that I wanted a lean-to.

That'd be solved by placing it on stone, which would be more appropriate because it'd one; need a foundation, and two; the stone foundation would determine to build a stone/city house. Problem solved.

[Winterbrass]

No, thank you. If I wanted to construct a small house out of bricks in the middle of the wilderness and small brick houses were an option, I wouldn't want the game to determine that I wanted a lean-to.

That'd be solved by placing it on stone, which would be more appropriate because it'd one; need a foundation, and two; the stone foundation would determine to build a stone/city house. Problem solved.

And what about the reverse? Constructing a city like Bruma from Oblivion? Logs and stone?

Any time you have a computer autodetecting something or attempting to figure out what a person means, you invariably end up with problems.