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No + Keep existing work

11 (20.4%)

Yes + new content in project world

29 (53.7%)

Don't care + Ambivalience

14 (25.9%)

Total Members Voted: 52

[PTTG??]

You can shoot a man- you can kill a man. You can kill his house, burn down his wife, sell his kids to Canadians. That's all OK. You don't kill a man's dog. That's just not right.

[Vactor]

which also raises the question of why there is a narrow sculpted tower in among a collection of hovels anyway?). I say this because I will eventually be doing some work on the top of that bluff (extending city walls along the cliff edge, for starters).

I've been doing most of the work on the north side of the slums, going with a concept of the slums being built over and around the ruins of older buildings, things like staircases and roads that are built over the top of, without regard for the original intent of the structures (columns partially blocking staircases for instance.  I think this gives a much better ambiance than tons of wooden planks.  The arch and tower being part of a concept of an older destroyed city gate/wall, which also includes the crumbling path behind the tower, and the staircases around it.

(iscyrus in game)

[lordnincompoop]

which also raises the question of why there is a narrow sculpted tower in among a collection of hovels anyway?). I say this because I will eventually be doing some work on the top of that bluff (extending city walls along the cliff edge, for starters).

I've been doing most of the work on the north side of the slums, going with a concept of the slums being built over and around the ruins of older buildings, things like staircases and roads that are built over the top of, without regard for the original intent of the structures (columns partially blocking staircases for instance.  I think this gives a much better ambiance than tons of wooden planks.  The arch and tower being part of a concept of an older destroyed city gate/wall, which also includes the crumbling path behind the tower, and the staircases around it.

(iscyrus in game)

Your slums building is awesome, keep going.

I'd like to see you make some modifications for the South side of the slums, and start expanding it SEE.

[mcclay]

We could wait on all this subway shit until 1.6 when Notch will hopefully add pistons so we can use PEW~PEWmatuaic tubes!

[lordnincompoop]

I very much doubt he will. Besides, pistons aren't exactly necessary for a subway system.

So no, mcclay. There is no sensible reason to wait for pistons at any stage of the project. They're highly peripheral, and will remain so.

[Lightning4]

I don't think pistons are coming in 1.6 anyway. Notch said something about it not meshing with the Minecraft world quite how he wants or something.

Though 1.6 is a fair bit off, so anything could happen I guess.

[dragonshardz]

We could wait on all this subway shit until 1.6 when Notch will hopefully add pistons so we can use PEW~PEWmatuaic tubes!

And even then, the pistons don't like launching things sideways very much, so our pneumatic tubes would be horrifically inefficient.

[Osmosis Jones]

We could wait on all this subway shit until 1.6 when Notch will hopefully add pistons so we can use PEW~PEWmatuaic tubes!

About the best use for pistons under ther current system would be as elevators to get you out of the subway stations faster, which is easy enough to retrofit in. The pneumatic tubes horizontally would either require ice (kind of difficult to legitimately get on this server ) or about 15 blocks vertical clearance (a piston knocks you up, then across). I still want to try that, but it's not really a mainstream system

Also, I'll have a map up shortly showing where I've dug/will dig the subway tunnels, and we can sort out placing stations afterwards. As it is looking like the load distance was grossly under-exaggerated, we can have a sizable distance between stations, and still keep the possibility of later upgrading to a tradeback system (I'm starting to come back around on it, simply because my current experiments show I'll need maybe half the resources I originally thought; still ridiculously pricey, but no longer flatout impossible).

[mcclay]

are the slums almost finished?

[shadowsofwhite]

are the slums almost finished?

My assumption is that the slums will never really be finished.  They are slums, and they will likely continue to expand, always.

[mcclay]

The keep

[lordnincompoop]

Roads still aren't done.

[dragonshardz]

I'm totally going to make a Yakety Sax Hallway.

█ = wall
▓ = door
▒ = pressure plate
░ = floor

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Just a long string of doors across from each other that can be used to stage a chase scene suitable to play Yakety Sax with.

[Logical2u]

Is there any chance of getting an updated map and a cave-mode map as well? I've been staring at the scenery so long it's hard to remember where roads are supposed to be vs. where they are, and it'd be nice to know where the subway junctions are ending up.

That being said, the keep looks like it has a significant chunk of it done although walls of the lower area need to be looked at, and it looks like almost all of the roads are done (there's a glaring exception near the keep, and some of the gates). I haven't been around the slums too much since it's hard for me to get inspired in that area.

[PTTG??]

I'll take a shot at it tomorrow.