Older builds not appearing when searching by address in Canvas even though game knows the address

Bug Reports
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  • Game Version: latest

  • Platform: (Steam windows / Steam Mac / Mac)

  • Mods: none

  • Hardware Specifications & Operating System (OS version, CPU, GPU, RAM, storage…):

  • Steps to Reproduce: Search for a specific address in game and you will not find older builds built on this specific adress - only last 1-2 months. But when placing a house on a lot the game very well knows if it was built for this address or not and will only let you install it directly if it is.

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  • Details:
    I was searching through canvas lately and was very happy to see that the city and address search options have been added as well as the price option.

  • But it seems that only houses built recently in the last 1-2 months appear under the new search option but not all the houses built over the many months since the launch of early access. Thus we are missing many builds when searching by city or by address.

  • Nevertheless the game seems to very cleary identify / recognize if a house is built exactly on this lot. If it is the game let´s you directly install it and otherwise you have to place it yourself. This is even the case for an identical lot size. If the house was not built on this lot you cannot install it and have to make it fit yourself.

  • Given this information is available in the build itself I would expect the older lots also to be found when searching by address. The game knows where the house has been built - so why is it not available to the Canvas search for this address?

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I’m glad you opened this in Bug Reports because the devs should add the older builds to the search filters, simply because us builders have made these great places and now we’re supposed to re-upload them? I’m not going to re-upload them, I don’t want duplicates of the same builds on my Canvas and I also don’t want to delete the first ones that I uploaded. I first posted My Apartments and Motel are not showing up on Canvas in the filter 203 Somerset Place in Bug Reports and after the feedback I changed it to Whishlist at which it feels more like a bug report to me.

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Fully agree! If the game would not recognize it I would even think “ok… it is what it is” but the game clearly knows where the property has been built. This becomes completely clear when you have 2 houses with identical lot size but only the one built on this lot can be directly installed while the other needs to be placed and make fit by yourself.

So the data is there, somewhere within the build. Thus it is just a question to extract it an make it available for the new search option.

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Yes that is correct, only the lots that are from same lot is placed without us placing them including same size lots, so that information is already in our uploads to Canvas, which is why I know they can update Canvas to show older builds in the search :+1: