POT editor

Yep, notice how someone said this would save 6 months dev time on POTs. Look how much time they've already put in. So what Port has done: make you pay for the tools to make your own town. Tools they already have. Giving a blank slate and you do all the work.

Notice also, it's nothing more than a pure echo chamber in there. The dev team wants a pure cheering squad to delay the game for this handful of cheerleaders.

Look at these fools cheering for flexible placement. You see, if you own a POT, they're "giving" you the tools to place whatever you want, where you want. Look what money will buy you.

They entrust people to make nice looking towns, purely because they have the money to buy them. Everyone else that bought a house, forget that they could be trusted with tools to build their own house, let alone place it on the lot the way they want. They are some sort of lower class folks with no taste.

And look at the $16,115 they raised as a stretch goal for flexible placement. So, folks that own houses won't be able to flexibly place stuff on their own lot, unless they buy a POT. Oh wait. They are capping POTs, or maybe not, maybe making instanced towns for the luxury to place your own paid items.

Well, am I interpreting it wrong? That video shows a guy placing a lot in his POT. People are all gushing over themselves to be able to do the same thing.

But people who own houses won't have the tools for flexible placement. It seems to me it's the same tools, isn't it? Whether it's a lot or things within a lot?

So why do they make flexible placement for POTs but not for stand-alone home owners? Or am I seeing it wrong?

I've never used Unity so I don't know how it handles map heights, nor Dev Client commands; I know with Ultima the toggle was on your account and not the client, so as EM we used the same CC/EC you lot did but had accounts with more commands enabled. We couldn't touch the underlying map however. Normally however (and it was the same when I worked on Dawn of War modding) the map itself is based on a greyscale image or similar, which sets a 2d plane into a series of height values, and it's fixed so that only the Devs (or owners of the Private Shards) can add or edit in the game itself... Think of it like a blanket laid on the floor; the devs set how "up and down" it goes, and then separate to that you have the ability to sprinkle things into the blanket or move them around above it.

My suspicion here is the ability to move around is something tied to the PoT owner's account and enabled to the specific PoT maps... BUT! however it's done, there's no reason why the "move stuff horizontally" code couldn't be transferred to moving houses about the inside of a lot, unless they've got such a shonky code base for houses they aren't treated as a single entity you can easily move about. Such spectacular incompetence is possible I suppose, but I suspect what is really happening is they can't enable it within a normal Lot because that makes a mockery of the Stretch Goal specific to doing that, and further more stops encouraging the whales to spend so much money on PoTs now. Maybe they actually can and just aren't talking about it, because telling anyone anything which might get them spending in the store, instead of actually buying the game is anathema to them. So they'll just sit it out until Episode 2 and then bring the wider enabling in then.

"My point remains - PoT implementation is NOT the culprit when it comes to a delay of game release. End. Of. Story."
- Duchess Wyldemane
www.shroudoftheavatar.com/forum/index.php?threads/petition-poll-please-portalarium-put-a-hard-cap-on-sales-of-player-owned-towns.33853/page-13#post-396598


bahahahaha. What a clueless little individual.

Yep, that was exactly my point. They give the tools to POT owners but can't violate that $250K stretch goal for "lowly" home owners.