Rail transportation system.

[nutmeg]

a high-tech mid to late game transportation system. You lay down the tracks just like how you put extend cables. Have a redirect station to travel if there is more than 1 path to go. Currently, I see all land vehicles as a mean to explore new areas. The 'train' fulfills the role of rapid transport that you will go back and forth often.

One use of this is to lay tracks from gateway engine to base, allowing convinient and quick transport back and forth. This provides fast transportation but the route is pretty much fixed. Think of it like the as the minecart from minecraft. Oh, also, you can link up multiple of them.

What I think you can do with them are
1. quickly getting from A to B
2. remote control it
say you have a friend playing with you, and he is doing stuff at the base while you are exploring a cave. You can simply plop the resources and research onto the carts and send them back to base.. Or if you forgot something your friend can just put it on the cart and send it your way.

and of course, this costs electricity to operate.

[najlitarvan]

yes and i have my take on named mag-lev trains can you take a look pls?
this si a copy of my post

this is an another post talking about trains.
how could they work:
well my idea is that there would be new items:
trains station tier-3
track pillars tier2
locomotive tier 2, 1 tier one slot
vagon tier 2 ,1 tier 2 slot
how would you set it up?
first make two stations and put them on the ground then make yourself some track pillars and they would come with quide the range and would connect the same as cables but larger(the train will use this) and connect the stations with them. next set up the train on each station there would be a special slot on witch you would place unpacked train or wagon and a large arm would place it onto the track when on the track the locomotive can move when the station is powered (and also the tracks allow for power sharing between bases) and the vagons can be moved via bumping or winch locomotives and vagons could connect the same as cars and for 1 locomotive 5 vagons could be connected at the same time

capabilities of the train:
for easy imagination it would be like tractor and trailer on rails
speed would be about 2-3 times that of a buggy
the train could derails when:the rails are disconnected and more of the train is of the rails a piece is of the rails when half or more is of the rails.
the station could be driven thru because it would have safety bumpers that would go down when a rails is connected on that side a stion would have 2 connection slots fro rails.
automation: three modes for station: deposit withdrawal turned off
deposit: take resources on the sttion it should have 2 tier2 slots and put them on a train(that could ride itself more on that in a sec)
withdrawal take from train and store it
off do nothing
the train could be switched form manual to automatic where the train rides indefinitely
and the train always consumes power from the rails when moving.

leave what you think in the coment

[neonnq]

This would be super cool

[nutmeg]

najlitarvan lähetti viestin:

yes and i have my take on named mag-lev trains can you take a look pls?
this si a copy of my post

this is an another post talking about trains.
how could they work:
well my idea is that there would be new items:
trains station tier-3
track pillars tier2
locomotive tier 2, 1 tier one slot
vagon tier 2 ,1 tier 2 slot
how would you set it up?
first make two stations and put them on the ground then make yourself some track pillars and they would come with quide the range and would connect the same as cables but larger(the train will use this) and connect the stations with them. next set up the train on each station there would be a special slot on witch you would place unpacked train or wagon and a large arm would place it onto the track when on the track the locomotive can move when the station is powered (and also the tracks allow for power sharing between bases) and the vagons can be moved via bumping or winch locomotives and vagons could connect the same as cars and for 1 locomotive 5 vagons could be connected at the same time

capabilities of the train:
for easy imagination it would be like tractor and trailer on rails
speed would be about 2-3 times that of a buggy
the train could derails when:the rails are disconnected and more of the train is of the rails a piece is of the rails when half or more is of the rails.
the station could be driven thru because it would have safety bumpers that would go down when a rails is connected on that side a stion would have 2 connection slots fro rails.
automation: three modes for station: deposit withdrawal turned off
deposit: take resources on the sttion it should have 2 tier2 slots and put them on a train(that could ride itself more on that in a sec)
withdrawal take from train and store it
off do nothing
the train could be switched form manual to automatic where the train rides indefinitely
and the train always consumes power from the rails when moving.

leave what you think in the coment

I thnk it's a pretty neat idea, especially the train station automation. I think tracks should be laid like how you lay extenders or tethers, just plop them on the ground and a path will form. No derailing tho. So if you reach the end of a track, then your train will just stop. Other than these two flaws, I think it's a good idea

[Just Eggs]

This is something I was going to suggest as well. It is very hard to select the landing site for my main base. It would be nice to set up a landing site on the prime meridian and have quick transportation to my main base. Also having a rail system would be nice for ppl who want to set up 2 bases on the same planet.

I dont know about you guys but I always build my bases around gateway chambers. It would be nice to have a quick transport method between the shelter where you start the game at and where you end up building a base at. Like for instance if you die and have to try and hoof it from your starting shelter to where you're setting up your base at before suffocating.

[Graf Schokola]

Very nice idea. this needs to be pushed.

[Alyx]

NOW THIS would be very awesome! Instead of driving between a mining site that I set up my extractor I could build a rail system to allow me and resources to move quickly! Also maybe dig it under ground so I can have a fast way up to the surface if I wanted with out having to drill out the damn planet!