I have recently created 'Summerhold Station' near the surface entrance to the Public Mine (near Spawn Portals). It's design is looslely based on what I imagine a US Subway would look like, albeit smaller. Consisting of two platforms, with two pressure plates on each (for traveling in either direction), we can have two 'lines' running through Summerhold City (2 track lanes for each) for which I will incorporate some fancy track switching to prevent collisions (as their is only one track lane for each line in the station). And possibly even an approaching train tone/indicator! Both of these lines should eventually connect up to Grand Central (wherever it ends up being), but should take different paths, encompassing a larger area of Summerhold City and other areas, without being too windy and still remaining efficient. But... Like Grand Central, a few problems still remain. 1. We NEED Destinations! (just tell me where you want them) 2. We need rail. I am also thinking that sk may want to design the whole transit map, before we start connecting up the destinations, so I will give it a few days or until sk responds. EDIT: Looks like we may just connect destinations as we go. Also here is what I am trying to make the rail network based off: http://www.cityrail.info/stations/pdf/CityRail_network_map.pdf But, without the track splitting on the one line. Currently we have two lines; *Destination* denotes a planned destination * denotes no connecting rail. Western Line (from South to North): *Red Water Fortress* * >Summerhold Spawn >Market >Grand Mall * *Grimstad* * *Chollie's Castle* * >Grand Central Eastern Line (from South to North): *Chollie's Paradise Island* * >Summerhold Spawn *SkyCart Station* *Swamp Colloseum* * *Stonegate* * >Grand Central
Is there a plan how to form the tracks? Like 1 track in every cardinal direction? Because if the populated areas got bigger there would be a mess when the tracks are formed "chaotically" ... Well I don't really know much about the server plans/structure/population since I'm new here so I don't know if I'm correct with my thoughts. Just to let you know, I would support the project with work and rails. Just talk to me ingame
Plan for the tracks would most probably just be linear (in a theoretical sense) passing by only major destinations. Also, I think maybe two lines would run through Summerhold (like West Summerhold Line/East Summerhold Line, etc) which would only converge at large major destinations or hubs (like Grand Central or the Spawn). Though these should remain reasonably straight (to prevent chaos), some curvature will be needed. As for support with donation of materials, either you can donate at Grand Central or maybe I will set up a donations bin in Summerhold Station.
I do agree that stops should be at major towns or locations (a grinder, for instance) like the above map from Ozzar. I assume most of the rail lines would be below ground?
Sk, would it be possible to create another one of those maps for Summerhold that I can draft rail lines onto? I could keep it up to date on the wiki. Also, labelling of major towns would be great, but I can do that.
Again, sorry to bump, but I am wondering if Grimstad would like a station. Due to timezones, I cannot be sure that this town is even active, so a response to the qustion would be nice. In other news, thank-you to all the kind donations of rail. We have quite a lot now and the main work to he done seems to be hollowing out the path for the track rather than acquiring the rails (not that you can ever have too many). And looks as though the city of Stonegate will be added to the Eastern Line between Spawn and Grand Central. Also planned for the Eastern Line are Skycart Station (please contact me for where to connect it up) and the colosseum-looking thing in the middle of the large swamp.
