Nether Railroad (Revised)
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 5:20 pm
With the map being made infinite in the upcoming 1.9 update, I've been thinking a transportation system faster than currently planned Minerealm Subway may be useful as spawn points begin to get created dozens of thousands of blocks away from eachother. So, I propose that we build a railway system through the highest or lowest regions of the nether. A subway built in this manner will use 1/8 the material and travel 8 times as fast as one made in the overworld. Plus, in this thread, Intelli himself set the precedent that destroying structures in the nether is, in fact, considered griefing. The obvious problem with this is that people looking to pvp may begin camping the stations, but to me the pros greatly outweigh the cons of this situation.
Please, share your thoughts on this idea.
Edit:
I've had a couple of thoughts that I think may help to fuel further discussion of this idea. The first is that if the main problem with this railroad is that it would be griefed too often, then why not attach it to the nether spawn roads? I've traveled across these roads more than a few times, and during just about every trip I've noticed that the roads were, surprisingly enough, completely in-tact. This leads me to believe that the moderators and admins are perfectly capable of maintaining the roads through rollbacks and such, so then why not simply run a rail or two along the sides of them to make crossing them that much faster?
The second thought is that, unlike most ideas and suggestions, this one does not strictly require "Intelli's Seal of Approval." It doesn't require any modifications to the workings of the server and can be maintained in the exact same manner as the nether spawn roads have been thus far. So, while his blessing would be much appreciated and very likely to fuel even more support for this, I don't really see much of a reason we can't all pull together and go through with it anyway.
Also keep in mind that this is not intended as a replacement for the currently planned Minerealm Subway. The nether is still considered an extremely dangerous method of transportation, and as such, it would be very unwise to transport anything of value through it. Until this changes, an overworld subway would still be an incredibly useful thing to have.
Please, share your thoughts on this idea.
Edit:
I've had a couple of thoughts that I think may help to fuel further discussion of this idea. The first is that if the main problem with this railroad is that it would be griefed too often, then why not attach it to the nether spawn roads? I've traveled across these roads more than a few times, and during just about every trip I've noticed that the roads were, surprisingly enough, completely in-tact. This leads me to believe that the moderators and admins are perfectly capable of maintaining the roads through rollbacks and such, so then why not simply run a rail or two along the sides of them to make crossing them that much faster?
The second thought is that, unlike most ideas and suggestions, this one does not strictly require "Intelli's Seal of Approval." It doesn't require any modifications to the workings of the server and can be maintained in the exact same manner as the nether spawn roads have been thus far. So, while his blessing would be much appreciated and very likely to fuel even more support for this, I don't really see much of a reason we can't all pull together and go through with it anyway.
Also keep in mind that this is not intended as a replacement for the currently planned Minerealm Subway. The nether is still considered an extremely dangerous method of transportation, and as such, it would be very unwise to transport anything of value through it. Until this changes, an overworld subway would still be an incredibly useful thing to have.