CXL CUSTOMIZATION

[bluespottedhorse 49]

CXL has so much potential and on the surface it looks really great.  Unfortunately, I think that what is really missing is customization.  Everything is cookie cutter and doesn't allow for a lot of variety, i.e; all lots are a uniform square 3x3, and lots built on slopes have terraces even on very small slopes.

Here's my idea for the developers:
-allow players to plop house/buildings as opposed to square lots excluding all decorations such as trees or bushes,
-give the ability to plop greenery around buildings to add to the detail and realism,
-lose the terraced walls when placing on slopes.
-allow the ability to plop fences, trees, shrubs, etc, etc.


 

[Ocram's Razr 963]

A better idea is to make ploppable buildings of odd sizes (20x20, 20x40, 20x60, 40x20, 40x60, 60x40m and possibly 10, 15, 25, 30, 35, 45, 50, and 55m because that was difficult but possible in City Life) and to make prop families (different plants, lawn furniture, and cars, different color schemes for buildings). The second one might not be possible and the closest easy thing to do is to make multiple copies of the same building with small differences but that would waste a lot of hard-drive space unless the 3D models are separate from the lots (like in City Life). The ability to make custom content would also help greatly, especially if it had a City Life-compatible Building Customization Editor.