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Good afternoon everyone, this is just my personal opinion and want to see how some others feel. With the addition of Stamps in GU 17, there have been many fan projects of sharing stamps, creating websites and more.

While I love the community contribution, realistically, doesn't that take away from your own satisfaction if you just use other peoples min/max boxes and cookie cutter all over your islands?

I personally feel that would take away from my save, if most of my production was just copy/pasted designs from other people. I like to experiment and organize my city, with my own artistic touch.

I 100% support using your own stamps, but I just cant shake the feeling of "Why would you use other peoples builds in your city".

PS: Thank you to all who are contributing, and offering your work for other people to use, for those who want it. :)

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about 1 year ago - /u/Ubi-Thorlof - Direct link

That's actually a rather interesting point of discussion, really. As someone who builds very chaotically, I won't become a big user of Stamps myself either.

That said, even without Stamps, many people have already been sharing "perfect layouts" for cities, production chains etc., going so far as to create the Anno Designer fan-tool just for that. Meaning, standardized layouts were already in use before, they just required more manual work to set up.

By the sounds of it, it makes a lot of people very happy, though, sooo... that's never a bad thing ;)