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Offline Crowbarr

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Build mode showing cost instead of dimensions
« on: September 11, 2012, 12:17:12 AM »
Someone please help me, I'm exhausted after trying to find an explanation online.

I hope this hasn't been covered in a thread online here I haven't found yet, it seems a very simple problem.

When in build mode, I am always shown the cost of an item or floor or room I wish to build instead of it's dimensions like 4x4, 16x2 etc.

It's driving me nuts, I didn't think I'd be bothered by this, but never knowing the size of any room until I count each little tile myself is just making building far too slow for me.

Is it a toggle button I've hit? Maybe a mod? I hope this is an easy fix, I'm going insane.

Thank you.

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Re: Build mode showing cost instead of dimensions
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2012, 12:24:13 AM »
I might also add the text showing the cost is incredibly tiny, I have to zoom right in to know how much it will cost, yet again making the game unplayable, still made a bunch of characters though, but I just can't build without knowing how big and how much it's gonna cost me.

Thanks again, I hope there's an obvious solution I've missed to this.



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Re: Build mode showing cost instead of dimensions
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2012, 01:40:18 AM »
I've also been experiencing this glitch so I'm wondering if they broke some code somewhere and that has got rid of it.
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Re: Build mode showing cost instead of dimensions
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2012, 01:44:54 AM »
I've also been experiencing this glitch so I'm wondering if they broke some code somewhere and that has got rid of it.


I built a house and noticed this glitch, however, it only seemed to occur when the wall I was building overlapped another wall. As in, if I had a wall six tiles long, and built a wall that started two tiles from the end, the dimensions weren't there, but if I built it from the very end, they would be there. Crazy, I know, but I'm really sure that was the case.

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Re: Build mode showing cost instead of dimensions
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2012, 01:50:49 AM »
Problem now fixed. It's a mod.

Dunno which one, just deleted any duplicate mods I had and moved the naked mod resource file to proper spot, that might have been it, as the game worked fine after those changes, and also worked fine without any mods at all, so yeah, was a mod, can't believe how much time I've wasted argh!

Thanks again though, hopefully this helps other people that had the same problem as me, CHECK YOUR MOD FOLDERS!

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Re: Build mode showing cost instead of dimensions
« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2012, 01:53:13 AM »
Must be some sort of random glitch. I just tried and I get the dimensions and the price showing. I've tried walls attached to other walls plus stand alone walls, plus I've also tried foundations.

**edit** opps, good to see you've worked it out.
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Re: Build mode showing cost instead of dimensions
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2012, 02:04:53 AM »
Thanks again though, hopefully this helps other people that had the same problem as me, CHECK YOUR MOD FOLDERS!

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