1x1 Foundation tile

[Seraphin]

Hi folks, hi Olof and Fredrik

I’m tired of these 4x4 foundation tiles. It happens quite often, that the outline of a terminal gets too wide.

For example, if you’re placing an escalator downwards but just want to have a corridor below. As the escalator is 4 tiles width, you need to place foundations 8 tiles width for the corridor, as you can’t place only 6 tiles. (including walls)

Similar happens, if you share two large (4x4) tiles with an object. You’re always forced to do 4x4 tile foundations, but you can’t just add 1 to 3 tiles if you only need these part of a foundation.

So I’d like to request to add additional 1x1 foundations too.

[Rubble]

That’s unlikely to happen I’m afraid but do know of what you talk about. There was a message from Olof I believe that highlighted upon this issue and why we won’t get a smaller one. Though miracles do happen.

[Seraphin]

This would be very disappointing. If a 1x1 foundation tile won’t happen, I can only hope for an (official?) mod to make 1x1 anti-foundation tiles, to make them transparent without lightning where needed as a workaround.

[Guusje2]

Found it!

Different size foundations

Part of it is performance yes, we need a smarter way to generate the terminal building and not via tile by tile. Also reducing the size it will make it uneven with the grid size of all external structures such as the taxiways, stands, roads etc. It will be much harder to align everything unless all those structures also snap to the 1x1 grid.