Poll: Stealth Stairs
Ellatrue:
"Stealth stairs" are a the result of a building technique using boolprop constrainfloorelevation false, allowing builders to make a short, one-tiled stairway to the floor above with modular stairs (rather than using the usual 4 tiles). Lots of people use this technique to create "elevators" without OFB.
I personally *love* stealth stairs, and I have used them in a number of my uploaded houses. They save a ton of space in small homes, allow you to better connect different floors by placing stairs in multiple locations (thus shortening the path the sim needs to take to reach the stairs), and the sims move from one floor to another more quickly.
I don't even mind the way they look- I think it's fine if they are in a corner, or surrounded by walls/fence, and I just imagine that they are very steep stairs (which maxis doesn't give us, since the steepness of all the stairs are the same). So in my mind they make the game a little more realistic, by allowing us to approximate crappy steep stairs of the kind you might have in real life, esp. in a small home or leading up to a loft.
On the other hand, it seems that a lot of people can't stand them, because they look like they lead into empty space and the sims "jump" from one floor to the other.
So, what's the consensus?
Zazazu:
It all depends on how they are done. Basically, they look odd, so I don't want to see them!
jsalemi:
If I need a one-tile 'stair', I prefer to use Targa's Ascension Tiles/Stairs. They at least look like they should be a teleporter-type thing.
witch:
I don't build stealth stairs but have had them in downloaded houses, I agree I like them hidden but otherwise no problems. For my own building I use Targa's teleporters, but with a CyberPunk hood I can get away with it. I might have to explore stealth stairs for my 50's hood.
notveryawesome:
I too use Targa's Ascension stairs in my sci-fi hoods. For other purposes, there are ladder-stairs (also by Targa?) that only take up 2 tiles and look like -- you guessed it -- a ladder. As a rule, I prefer not to use stealth-stairs, but when I find them in my downloaded lots, I don't freak out over it.
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