Conveyor Systems

[Erusk]

Was wondering if anything like a conveyor system would be plausible for the game? Have like a 5-10% material loss on it..Discuss please.

[White, the Loiterer]

Their adding dino elevators, don't see why we can't have conveyors.

[Lilkinsly]

Heh I want to tell my bigfoot to unload my dino, but converyors would work too.

[White, the Loiterer]

Originally posted by lilkinsly:

Heh I want to tell my bigfoot to unload my dino, but converyors would work too.

I want to have a Mesopithecus riding my shoulder while I ride a Gigantopithecus riding a T-Rex.

[Lilkinsly]

While being carried by a Quixocotle (sp)

[eagle_1980]

I've thought about how it would be nice to have a conveyor system. But there would be a major downside to this. Imagine on a pve server, you're seeing conveyor belts everywhere all over the island. It would be no different from foundation spams if you got a conveyor running half way across the island or whatever. It wouldnt exactly be a problem on pvp as people can blow up conveyors, but it would cause problems on pve servers. I think we're better off using packmules to carry stuff, afterall that's what the dinos are for. There needs to be a balance between tech advancement and keeping the dinos useful. If we get too far into tech stuff that dinos no longer are useful, then this game would be no longer as the game we know now.

[Banished]

Dino elevators? What is that exactly?

How's this for conveyors: What if certain dino's could be trained to transport goods short distances all by themselves? One dimorphion might be able to take resource stacks from one box to another, add more dimorphions to increase efficiency. The limited weight acts as a balance for this system so u can't just have one carry ALL in one go, a few trips might be required. Not all dino's could be trained for this, only the smart and practicle ones. And I don't think that losing 5-10% is necessary if the process is balanced by time.

[Lilkinsly]

If you make the conveyors extremely expensive, then people will just make small ones at their bases.

Plus you can make wild dinos attqck them.

[White, the Loiterer]

Originally posted by Schismogenesis:

Dino elevators? What is that exactly?

"Survivor, DVS-Zunneh asks, “Can you explain the "elevator structures" a bit? Will they be able to lift say a spino, how far can they lift? We live in the volcano and would love to lift the few dinos that wont fit in.”

Answer:

You’ll build a vertical elevator track, and put an elevator platform on the track (one allowed per track). There will be 3 sizes of platforms, which determines how fast it will move up the track, and how much weight it can carry. Then you just move your dinos/players onto the elevator, activate it, and if it’s under the weight limit, up-or-down it goes. Yes, the largest platform size will be able to lift a Spino ;)"

[Erusk]

Originally posted by WarlordOfRome:

Originally posted by Schismogenesis:

Dino elevators? What is that exactly?

"Survivor, DVS-Zunneh asks, “Can you explain the "elevator structures" a bit? Will they be able to lift say a spino, how far can they lift? We live in the volcano and would love to lift the few dinos that wont fit in.”

Answer:

You’ll build a vertical elevator track, and put an elevator platform on the track (one allowed per track). There will be 3 sizes of platforms, which determines how fast it will move up the track, and how much weight it can carry. Then you just move your dinos/players onto the elevator, activate it, and if it’s under the weight limit, up-or-down it goes. Yes, the largest platform size will be able to lift a Spino ;)"

Yeah the lift system is cool, but having a primitive conveyor system that has a built in loss of materials transported, say 5-10% determined by the value of the material (say crystals and obsidian might have more so that it discourages people to transport that) and also make it expensive and say 1 piece of conveyor belt would be the same length as a foundation, however it would not act like a foundation so it wouldn't block resource spawns. I don't know just a thought I've been rolling around in my head for a while now. But eagle_1980 has a point regarding the technology to dinos balance which makes alot of sense too.