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OPTIC Rail Lines
iGenerator:
Seems like a waste of your time, it would also be a pain to protect
TarynMai:
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--- Quote from: awesomealicia on January 17, 2013, 03:49:10 am ---This kind of sounds like its really just going to take up a bunch of space that guests or others couldve used to build other things.
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Way to be a downer.
The stations will of course take up space like any other build, but I won't go crazy with the size of the stations.
As for the tracks, the main track tunnels will be constructed so the outer dimensions will be 7 blocks wide, 10 blocks tall.
For protection, coal PS stones I suppose being as they protect an 11 by 11 area, although for this I might apply for project protection. I know project protection normally protects bedrock to sky for the protected region, but all I'd need would be for the track segments themselves to be protected. I could even protect the stations with my own protection stones. Plus I could bury part of the main tracks to keep it out of the way a little more.
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Im not a downer, Im realistic.
Theres no way youd get project protection with rails going around the world. The zone for protection is a cube, basically, youd want to try to protect the entire world, or make the admins do it in little bits, which would be insanely irritating. Also, thats still pretty big, it adds up, and someone seriously could've used that space for something much more useful and nice to look at.
bantam2:
--- Quote from: awesomealicia on January 17, 2013, 04:59:35 am ---
--- Quote from: Chief149 on January 17, 2013, 04:38:56 am ---
--- Quote from: awesomealicia on January 17, 2013, 03:49:10 am ---This kind of sounds like its really just going to take up a bunch of space that guests or others couldve used to build other things.
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Way to be a downer.
The stations will of course take up space like any other build, but I won't go crazy with the size of the stations.
As for the tracks, the main track tunnels will be constructed so the outer dimensions will be 7 blocks wide, 10 blocks tall.
For protection, coal PS stones I suppose being as they protect an 11 by 11 area, although for this I might apply for project protection. I know project protection normally protects bedrock to sky for the protected region, but all I'd need would be for the track segments themselves to be protected. I could even protect the stations with my own protection stones. Plus I could bury part of the main tracks to keep it out of the way a little more.
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Im not a downer, Im realistic.
Theres no way youd get project protection with rails going around the world. The zone for protection is a cube, basically, youd want to try to protect the entire world, or make the admins do it in little bits, which would be insanely irritating. Also, thats still pretty big, it adds up, and someone seriously could've used that space for something much more useful and nice to look at.
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Alicia is right, there is no way to get project protection for this. I don't think that you should abandon your project because of that, but it does mean buying a lot of protection stones. I think that this idea overall can turn out well if you put some hard work into it. If you stick to the dimensions that you have stated, I don't think it will take up that much space. Good luck.
Chief149:
And I could bury it of course. I could place the tracks underground.
Project protection zones are cubes which are set using worldedit. The worldedit api is used to select a cubical area. Now, in this case, my tracks would make a square shape on the inside and outside. The idea is cpu efficiency.
If I get project protection on just the cuboids that make up the tracks, then 8 cuboids would need to be protected. These 8 cuboids would be the inner and outer squares of track (or the 4 sides of a square outlined by a main rail). However, if I use coal protection stones, hundreds of cuboids would be made, and every one of them would need to be checked by the server to ensure that the structure is not griefed. It would save a lot of cpu if the 8 segments of track were to be protected by 8 protection regions. Once again, these protected regions would not go one block past the rail tube. Lets say there are 4 extensions of track, each of which is 1000 blocks. So in other words, four stretches of 1000 block long rail tracks would be in the shape of a square. Each track tube is 7 by 10 blocks. So this means four regions would be made, each of which would be 7 X 10 X 1000 blocks. Unlike traditional city project protection where one giant cuboid going from bedrock to sky protects the area, a smaller set of cuboids do the job. Anyone would be able to build around the track. Hell, I wouldn't care if players placed blocks against the track itself so long as the internal tracks aren't griefed. The world is so huge that these tracks wouldn't get in the way.
Of course I could just use the estimated 650-700 coal protection stones required to protect the tracks. Could be more, might be less. Or just have 8 larger protections strictly protecting the main track line tubes. Anything else (the train stops and the local branching tracks) would be protected by my own protection stones.
Also alicia, who says I can't make the rails look sexy?
TarynMai:
I wasnt talking about the cpu usage, I was talking about how annoying/impossible it would be for the admins to zone it.
I say.
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