[OFFICIAL] Metro Prices and Info UPDATE 2.0

Metro System 2.0

The metro system is being built in order to ease the transportation of people and goods amongst cities and distant points in the world. Every major city requires a Metro Station. That, however, does not mean you have to contract my services straight away, City owners may sell plots in order to earn money to be able to afford a Metro Station.

As of version 2.0 the metro system becomes much more intuitive and easy to use, disregarding the old "Lanes" system and using a much more efficient "Node" system. These nodes are placed on the 2 points in space that are to be connected, and a 2-lane tunnel in between these nodes.
This produces bidirectional metro travelling, back and forth the nodes.

Another new addition to the metro system is the complete revamp of the tunnels, we move to a much more appealing tunnel design as shown here:

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These new tunnels will run over the land in order to ease the spotting of them on mapping tools such as a cartographer. Shown below is a fine example on how these tunnels look roaming the lands:

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With the addition of a new tunnel design, stations can now be a much more appealing element of your city, example(with the building not complete to show the concept of node):

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Node concept and example

Up until now I've introduced the "Node" concept, these provide bidirectional transport between them, and are much easier to build, below is a scheme of how exactly a Node works:


As you can see in the image, both city A and B have a node, which is connected to the other node with one single tunnel that allows bidirectional traffic between these two cities.

2.0 Price System

As of 2.0 you can now select whether you want your station to be underground or the new over ground design, please note underground is much more expensive, shown below an image of the prices depending on the mode you choose:



As you can see, the actual station node is cheaper now, due to several optimizations I've made, and choosing the over ground option rewards the purchaser with a much more cheaper station.

Also as a side effect for the single tunnel, each city has to pay HALF of the tunnel (unless you're connecting to spawn). So make the arrangements with other city owners to connect city-to-city.

Current Status of Main Metro Station (Spawn) includes 5 Nodes listed here (green means operative, red means under maintenance/construction):

Node 1: ModoVille
Node 2: Orso
Node 3: Ironburg
Node 4: -----
Node 5: Kokiri Vilage

No further nodes can be added so other cities will have to establish connections to cities that are hooked up to spawn.

NOTE: Prevoiusly built and PAID stations will recieve the upgrade for FREE, stations that are in progress or NOT paid yet will have to carry with the new prices.

Info about Materials

I wont be buying any more iron from now on, or any other materials. I will supply myself from CarpeNemo. So sell the stuff to him. Not me.

Stickied, start hiring people so you don't have such a monopoly.

I want to get a metro to my city. I would like 4 lanes, but I don't really know where I am. Is there a positioning command?

globydudeca wrote:I want to get a metro to my city. I would like 4 lanes, but I don't really know where I am. Is there a positioning command?

I will soon get a cartograph of the whole map so I can lay tunnels and locate cities in the most efficient way possible, you just put in the money.
However I dont recommend buying 4 lanes straight away, as there aren't as many cities right now, 1 or 2 would be enough for now, any further expansions will cost only 100c per extra lane if you bought the unlimited guaranty and 110c if you didn't.

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What is the deal with the prices inflating by 100x? Is it because of your method for calculating? I am hoping if it says 16k coins it means 160 like before... I am really just confused so some explanation would be nice.

Globy, technically prices are the same as they were before. There is no real inflation - it's just instead of a Dollar bill we now use pennies. 100 credits is equal to what USED to be 1 credit. Since we can't use fractions of a credit this is basically a way to conquer that.

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Updated to v2.0, please check the new features

this is a easy idea demp

we all know how laggy and painful and gruesomely complicated metro stations are right now, and I'm seriously bored of it too, they are so unrealiable and buggy/easy to break.

I say no more, installing this simple hmod plugin (comes with beta release hMod132) metro stations become way less laggy, way easier to use and WAAAAAY more reliable. It will also mean even cheaper nodes!.

Here's the instructions for correct plugin install:

1. Download link
2. Open rar file and replace the old hMod minecraft_mod.jar with the new 132.
3. Drop the MinecartMania.jar in the plugins folder
4. Drop the settings txt file to bin folder
5. Add the plugin to the list in your server.properties
6. Restart Server
7. ???????
8. PROFIT!

You've honestly insulted me putting in instructions for a plugin. We don't want to incorperate this it removes the point of the caste as said in the past.

wussupwussup wrote:You've honestly insulted me putting in instructions for a plugin. We don't want to incorperate this it removes the point of the caste as said in the past.

Point is, temporal fix to make the metro half functional till minecarts lag less. Remove at a latter stance.

It doesn't remove the point of the branch - it makes them able to do their jobs.

It's not like it's an instant can of metro - you still require resources (a side effect is - GOLD IS VALUABLE! MUHAHAAHAHAHA) to make it work. And it stores all unnecessary minecarts in a chest, reduces the amount of redstone needed, and makes using Metros nearly foolproof.

We could at least give it a shot! It won't hurt anything to test it, at least. Please? When you see how well it all works and the resource costs of it you might change your mind. (Maybe Demp could show you on his private server.)

Mod installed I'll work all night so current tunnels work, dont expect Tarkait or Kokiri to be ready any time soon unless I get a shitton of workers