If you can just blueprint them it just make game too easy. and thinking too long can cause you lose war or misplacing them, because you also have control your battleships same time and if you control your battleships too long it is away from building and controlling your cities and can cause big problems for society. Layouts allow the player to better use the space available, maximizing the producing capacity of each region These pages give examples of efficient layouts for houses and production facilities so that the use of distance-based buildings such as the and Public Buldings is efficient and space is conserved.

It takes skill that if you are middle of war for example and you still have to really fast do buildings, you have to really fast think what is best places for each building, bulding add-ods, roads etc. I don't like blueprint idea, but I understand that some people can find it as advancement.įor me it is taking one skill area of game away. I don't think that Ubisoft should move to area that involve gameplay dynamic changes with building different items. What next, item for how fast screen move with cursor or how many ships you can choose same time (there was limit at least in 2070)? Items (or items building) shouldn't change gameplay dynamics. To be honest that 'blueprint item' sounds senseless/absurd, you either should have bluebrints in game or not. So say you reached the end game, you have loads of money, so you make blueprints - and then are able to copy paste your building layout as much as you want, in that specific game session. Make it so that you need to build a 'Blueprint item', that would cost time + resources, and that would allow you to save a blueprint for one game. Again, this raises a few more issues, like dealing with situations in which the user attempts to use a blueprint with buildings in it which they have yet to unlock, and it could be time-consuming to fix edge cases. The system could potentially be expanded (similar to the system in Factorio) with a list of saveable/exportable blueprints, that the user could just use anytime, in any game. I understand it could be time-consuming to implement, as you would need to scan the buildings in the blueprint/clipboard, then check that the user has enough resources in storage to actually place all the buildings, but it would be so useful, and would speed up the building time, and reduce the repetition, when a large volume of production facilities are needed. This could have been made so much more quickly if I could have just built the layout once, then easily duplicated it with a couple of clicks. Take the situation below (my current production of Health Foods):

Some kind of blueprint system (or at least some form of copy/paste for when you end up building the same layout several times in a row) would be an extremely useful feature to have.

Anno 2070 city layout