Get rid of "L" shape when creating walls now!

[SalamanderRobot]

Great to see that there are still many people interested in this QoL suggestion

You can find the full discussion in the Optimal Walling topic.

If you want to see it in-game, you can test it with the Age of Salamanders scenario (as mentioned by @SlinkyRobin8549 ).

@RoomOfTheEvil

One of the community member already created an optimal wall solution that is interactable (@SalamanderRobot)

Age of Salamanders: Tile Indicator /Optima Wall (codepen.io)

And, he also created a ‘find a hole in the wall’ qol improvement in the same page. Check with space bar, by hovering the mouse in the tiles.

I also made an interactive JavaScript tool only for this L-shape issue (with comparison to the current implementation ; open it in full page for the optimal experience):

https://codepen.io/nvandernoot/full/MWaGMbL

There are in fact 4 different configurations when joining two wall end points. In the JavaScript tool, you can use the mouse wheel (or right click) to switch between these 4 configurations, similarly to the placement of gates in DE.

@Darkness01101

Or, better yet (to suit everyone’s needs), I propose an enhancement:

• Keep the existing functionality as is, but as you’re placing a wall (before you’ve let go of the left-mouse button to place it), be able to hold the SHIFT button to force it straight-shaped or CTRL to force it “L”-shaped. Problem solved!

You can play with the aforementioned JavaScript tool to see something similar (but using the mouse wheel for 4 configurations instead of 2).

@Kuoting

I made a suggetion about the holes very long time ago too.

Nice, this would fit well with the Dijkstra Tile Indicator suggestion