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Rose

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Of window values.
« on: March 23, 2012, 10:42:57 am »

Right now, windows improve room value quite a bit, which is great.

but there should be a special bonus for certain things, like having at least one side of the window facing 7/7 water, for example.

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things like that.
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Re: Of window values.
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2012, 03:41:12 pm »

+1. Has admired the magma sea from above lately.
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Re: Of window values.
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2012, 04:51:16 pm »

+1. Has admired the magma sea from above lately.

Technically, that's the floor, isn't it?  Unfortunately, there are no "greenhouse" floors or roofs yet. 
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Re: Of window values.
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2012, 02:06:21 pm »

+1. Has admired the magma sea from above lately.

Technically, that's the floor, isn't it?  Unfortunately, there are no "greenhouse" floors or roofs yet.
Not that there is anything stopping you from making a clear glass floor.
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Re: Of window values.
« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2012, 02:10:57 pm »

Not that there is anything stopping you from making a clear glass floor.

But you can't see through a glass floor or roof (at least, currently), and it doesn't count as a window or have a window's value (it has a floor's value, which is 1/10th normal, and cannot be engraved, since glass can only be constructed).  That means that it accomplishes none of the things windows accomplish. 

It literally is just a floor made of material type "Clear Glass", which the game treats no differently from any other floor of the same material value, like a silver floor.
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