Train Revamp • CCNet

Train Revamp Back

Gav7 10 months ago

Firstly, trains should be split into 2 classes:

Passenger trains would be used predominantly for transportation and have a significantly lower chest percentage (someone similar to the Zep). On the other hand, the speed of this train could be increased to much higher, such as 50m/s, with acceleration being applied here for the train to speed up gradually. This will help increase the number of railways worldwide, shifting the transport balance from zeps to trains.

Freight trains would become goods trains, transporting large amounts of items over a large area. This should be done while reducing its speed to around 20m/s (slightly faster than trucks). On the flip side, there could be an increased percentage of chests while increasing the length minimum of such trains to around 50 blocks. This prevents train chests from being clustered around the front and allows trains to look more like actual trains. These trains could include acceleration, too, because it looks weird for trains to jump-start from stationary.

Secondly, there should be a rail banning overground railways without substantial infrastructure, such as viaducts/bridges. This will help prevent the cross-continent/ocean railways from appearing.

Thirdly, make it possible to walk around a train. For example, increase the interval gap where the train moves. A possible interval would be around 1.5 s-2 s. This will help reduce lag increasing functionality for trains, especially the passenger variant. In addition, this will allow the looting of slow-moving trains, as commonly seen irl.

I hope you guys will consider the suggestions I have. Although it is not applicable to many players, I feel these changes would still help in shifting the balance from zeps to other modes such as trains.

Comments

galacticwarrior9 10 months ago

General comments;

- The problem with having trains move more than 1 block at a time is that this makes designing railroads which allow the train to go up inclines and declines considerably harder.
- But because trains move only 1 block at a time, they need to move multiple times per second in order to travel at a fast speed.
- If players are willing to work with mostly flat railroads, train movement can be modified to allow for less laggy movement and the addition of acceleration.

"Secondly, there should be a rail banning overground railways without substantial infrastructure, such as viaducts/bridges. This will help prevent the cross-continent/ocean railways from appearing."

Alternatively, trains could be prevented from moving over water. That could lead to players making bridges naturally, as opposed to one block wide "rails" over water.

"Freight trains would become goods trains, transporting large amounts of items over a large area."

Here I have two questions:
1. Isn't this essentially the current train craft?
2. How much more chests would they need? The current trains can carry 35 dubs. I have not personally seen a situation where more space was needed expect for siege potion transport.

Csipok 10 months ago

i think with the chest thing Gav meant that you wont need a too long train to have more chests since its hard to manouver a long train underground, and I can agree on it

Gav7 10 months ago

On moving up inclines/declines: Its quite unrealistic for a train to go up at a 45º angle. On trains not being allowed to move over water, I agree.

On the goods train portion, I do see what you mean by it being the same, but the entire idea is to make it slower for it to be easier to jump on and loot while increasing the length to make it more realistic. Maybe the best solution for this is to just make the new passenger train variant while making the old train into the goods train by slowing down the speed and increasing its possible blk limit to allow it to be bigger for those people who want longer trains.

Gav7 10 months ago

To add, goods trains definitely don't move as fast as passenger trains irl.