Dias Mansion - Price & Practicality Be Damned

#1

Recently I started coming up with ideas for designing a house out of boredom. Since it was something I knew I’d never actually build, so I started making it bigger & adding more & more over-the-top expensive, impractical stuff to it. Sadly I’ve pretty much run out of junk to add to it asside from currently-impossible technology like teleporters & room-specific gravity control. I was thinking that if I do ever finish designing it I could make it a playable multiplayer map in hammer just for the hell of it. Although it seems I keep starting over from scratch any time I add a lot of things so it might never get done.

Some of the things I might add:

  • lazy river moat
  • inset porch behind drawbridge
  • intercom system
  • sauna
  • guest bedrooms
  • movie theatre
  • fallout shelter
  • no library, but a server room
  • rooftop terrace
  • balconies
  • castle-style battlements
  • helicopter landing pad
  • hot tubs in the bathrooms
  • olympic-sized swimming pool outdoor/indoor convertable with a retractable awning & curtian walls
  • automated double pocket doors with movement prediction
  • elevators & escalators instead of stairs
  • waterfall connects from roof to pool or moat
  • electrochromic smart windows
  • hydronic radiant underfloor heating
  • moving walkways

I’d love to hear some more ideas for things to add, althought I’d like to keep the house/castle/mansion/thing somewhat realistic structurally. Fictional things like portals could be added so long as they aren’t there solely to access otherwise inaccessable areas.

#2

Super awesome water slide that goes from top of house in to pool.

#3

Does this also include the outside? If so, private baseball fields, soccer/futbol, tennis courts, and a golf course. Also an indoor bowling alley.

#4

Angry dome.

#5

Outside is fine too, although there’s obviously going to be a bit of a size restriction, especially if it make it into a playable map. It could also be surrounded by whatever; beach, desert, grassland, mountain, cliffs. It doesn’t really matter that much so long as the building has a physical thing to rest on.

#6

Towers to The Showers


#7

Best IMO.

I agree with this.

#8

Dreaming of those oh so abscent billions are we? hehe…me too. I’d add a racetrack on that and a fullblown multimillion dollar music studio with all the trimmings :slight_smile:

#9

Do you mean a rock-climbing walls that lead to shower stalls? O_o

#10

Id add them

#11

A bed-room. Litterally, a bed-room.

As in, the floor is one giant matress mass, five layers deep, liberally layered with memoryfoam and sprinkled with pillows and featherticks.

Difficult to map, but undecidedly awesome.

#12

A fuck room, because fuck

#13

A fuck room? Is that where I store all the fucks I don’t give?

#14

A Bowser room
because fuck you, thats why.

#15

A giant trampoline room.

Or, even better, make all the floors trampolines.

#16

A kitchen.

#17

Dunno if it’s possible with the entities in Source, but you should chuck in an Anechoic chamber. That would make for some interesting ambushes in deathmatch.

#18

I have no idea how to create such a thing in source & I don’t think it would have the effect you might be thinking because I don’t really see how it would affect ambushes.

#19

I meant only that it would be disorienting to be shot at without hearing anything.

#20

Those chambers only mute echoes of sounds, it doesn’t nullify sound entirely.

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