[9falcon]

Intelli, its a great idea in all, but the railway would be going through peoples realm and mines. There would be lots of mad people knowing theres a giant railroad destroying their mine/house.

The question is, is who would have a mine at a depth that shallow? The underground rails only have to be at a depth of 5-10 blocks - who has a mine at that depth? - the only mines I have at the moment are at bedrock level.

If it does go past mines, then the owner should be told to mine elsewhere. For the most part the mines we would hit would probably be disused anyway.

The begining of a mine maybe or the basement of a house or like zane said a storage room.

[Littlefryingpan]

Great idea. There are alot of good people here who im sure are willing to help out. I doubt many people will object to having a small tunnel put under there realm. There will always be some sort of conflict, but im sure any conflict could be resolved with time and some thought. I think this project would be well worth the effort though.

*Edit again*

[Cogohst]

Great idea. There are alot of good people here who im sure are willing to help out. I doubt many people will object to having a small tunnel put under there realm. There will always be some sort of conflict, but im sure any conflict could be resolved with time and some thought. I think this project would be well worth the effort though.
*edit* I think that the mine carts colliding would be a problem, but im sure theirs a way to disable the mine cart collision thing. Then you would only need one line and players could go either direction.

Mine cart collision is a feature of the game. It could mess up other things that rely on it. Two lines would be better than changing the game physics IMO.

[Littlefryingpan]

I guess your right. with two rails it will work good, except when people attempt to go the wrong way or leave there cart in the middle of the railway and someone behind them has to stop. I guess that isnt that bad, because all you have to do is get on again.

I think that for the parts of the railway that go though public land should have some sort of protection like the spawn building does to ensure that people don't steal the rails. If that's not possible im sure people will gladly help repair it when things get broken.

With this rail system I think it will be great for the newbies to help them find and get to public land faster. That way people start building further out rather then the nearest public realm from spawn.

[BSGSamuel]

Great idea

As for collisions with mines and other underground structures, they can probably be handled on a case by case bases. Once you get far enough from spawn the chances of running into a private realm get smaller and smaller. And otherwise you can just go around whatever structure you find.

There will need to be carefull selection of people to be given acces to the building area though. I wouldn't want a bunch of thiefs/griefers snooping around the bottom of my mines/underground stuff.

I would volunteer but I doubt people know me well enough to get a chance. I'd also have resources that can be usedfor this.

One more thing, the number of powered rails needed won't be huge if the rails are kept on one level. Once minecarts have a certain velocity they don't loose it so once you're up to max speed powered rails are pointless (correct me if I'm wrong). You'll only need a couple at every beginning of a rail.

[CirJohn]

Well, I'm only a month old, but I'm volunteering for the work crew when work gets started. Whatever form it takes, it will be a nice addition to the server.

[brrr321]

So are we gonna approve this project or not? Though I have my doubts as the OP hasn't made a single post since his original pitch - I guess he's lost interest .

[Falcon9]

There is a underground tunnel system, quiet large like 3x6 right under the slab path. Is that the planed site of the railroad?
(btw found the tunnels, snooping around the basement of Intelli's lux apt.)

[CirJohn]

Well, Intelli may be waiting on his next patch to implement special build rights at those heights. In the mean time we can just keep on planning.

In any case, I'd be willing to bet most of us are just waiting on him to tell us how he wants it done. The curse of being the boss is actually having to tell people when and where to start.

[r0nk]

what if we had it in the sky? it wouldn't mess with peoples regions as much, because all they would need is a staircase or a waterfall.