Cacophony-free "Land survey tool" -feedback

[vatas]

Personally, I think the most critical needed thing right now is some way to lock the survey to a specific "height-map" - because it is way too easy to change the target elevation by accident.

[Nightdawg]

[Nightdawg]

[SexyBigBoobaDakkan]

Been a few weeks, hard agree. A locking toggle would be nice.
It's far too easy to accidentally click on the survey dots when trying to manually move, and also when trying to place fresh stockpiles.


The pclaim interface that allows you to increase claim dimensions +1 in any direction would also be useful here (and -1 as well), not just for when you misplace the survey slightly but when you want to change dimensions later on.

What about increasing the max size of the survey too?

And also make dirt stockpiles hold 2500

Also give me $450000

[mvgulik]

A general, and kinda funny, emergent issue/feature, due to the new survey features & there behaviors, is that with a single tile survey one can only be raised or lowered (for both the survey main-area and/or sub-grid area) by having to manipulating all four corners independently (simply because a single-tile survey it has no other point to interact with than the corner points).

Dev's are probably well aware of this. But probably excused it away with the argument that for single-tile shape-terraforming there is the terraforming Tile-Mode to raise or lower a whole tile to the high or low point of that tile.

- The lesser reason to have UP & DOWN buttons in the survey-UI to adjust the whole survey/sub-grid height.
- One potential general question/decision/issue with UP & DOWN buttons is ... Which area will they act on for a survey that has a sub-grid area active that is not covering the whole survey main-area. Ie: Both or just the sub-grid area.(?)

Been using surveys so far mostly in default mode (Sub-grid == Whole survey area), And so far have not run into a good case where using a smaller sub-grid, inside a bigger main survey area, was needed or warranted. Remove + new survey on sub-grid target area usually seemed easier. Makes we wonder if there are any good cases for using a smaller sub-grid inside a bigger main survey area(?).

[mvgulik]

One potential interesting survey sub-grid feature that came to mind.
Using multiple colors for the border section-lines between the tile-points.

One example would be to use two different colors to indicate level lines vs non-level lines.

A third color, while I'm at it anyway, could be for multiple consecutive lines that have the same tilt (other than zero tilt ofc).
Some additional colors (dynamic gradient perhaps) could be used to color border lines based on there Abs(tilt).

[Nightdawg]

Placing a stockpile with Shift should take precedence over removing the sub-region (if you also accidentally clicked on one of the survey dots while placing the stockpile. (wtf?, ... o crap, the sub-region was removed.))

Loftar idk how to do this one client-side. Add this one at least pls