Trunk road from Castle Town to the SW

[JakeDanger]

Hi guys,
I'm in the progess of building a trunk road into which I am attempting to build pleasing aethestics. I'd rather at this point that people didn't attempt to contribute to the actual building, as I have a particular plan in mind. That said, if you are worried about where the road is going wrt your building plans, please let me know so that there is no confict!

Cobbles gratefully accepted, btw!

Admins, I hope this isn't problematic. If it is, let me know, and I will cease and desist.

Cheers,
Jake

[Maxloader]

As long as you make the road from gravel its ok, its in the rules.
That way gravel isnt completely useless.

[JakeDanger]

Ahh, that's unfortunate. I should have thought of that before I started. I've been making it from half-height cobbles, because you can build more gradual changes into the road relief as it rises and falls, which means that you don't have to jump to traverse the road and well, it just looks more "realistic", if you know what I mean. I'm perfectly happy to stop building it this way if you aren't happy with it, but please go and have a look first!

Cheers,
Jake

[Maxloader]

Your idea seems nice, but i don't know what other admins think of it?

[Gazoid]

I think its been executed well, and looks pleasant

Perhaps where it needs become a bridge or requires a tunnel it should transition back to gravel.

[Maxloader]

Gravel falls so it would be hard to make a bridge out of it, unless you line the outsides with another material

[Gazoid]

Sorry, I should have been clearer, I meant say the half step road gets to a bridge, the bridge is wood or some other material, and then where the road resumes on the other side, it would be gravel

[JakeDanger]

Well, I was thinking that trunk roads could be cobbled, as in the old roman style, and branch and minor roads could be gravel. That way you know if you are on a main road vs. a track.

What do you think?

Cheers,
Jake

[Gazoid]

I think as much as we can, we should use Gravel for roads, as its a clear distinctive material that's not really used in most buildings

[JakeDanger]

I'm happy to limit my building of the road like this if you want me to, by the way. It's just suggestions.

[JakeDanger]

Donations of gravel gratefully accepted from one and all, by the way!

[Gazoid]

Myself and EddyT and Chii plan on starting a new town soon, we're saving our supplies for the road (it will be MILES long) to castle city

[Skovgaard]

I think I have a bunch of gravel.. Else, just look at the map.. There's places near water were there's only gravel..
Like hear my house xD
I can donate some next time I get on, in a couple of hours

[Maxloader]

Well, I was thinking that trunk roads could be cobbled, as in the old roman style, and branch and minor roads could be gravel. That way you know if you are on a main road vs. a track.

What do you think?

Cheers,
Jake

This is perfect. I will change the road rules to this.

http://www.maxloader.nl/forum/viewtopic ... =4&start=0

[Gazoid]

To Clarify, When you say cobbled, do you mean Cobblestone, or Half Stones?

I'd rather use half stones, cobble is quite noisey, and used for most buildings

[Maxloader]

To Clarify, When you say cobbled, do you mean Cobblestone, or Half Stones?

I'd rather use half stones, cobble is quite noisey, and used for most buildings

No use cobble, half stones would make it sucky to put stuff on, unless its a 2 half block stacked.
I think cobble might be better, btw jake, what is the trunk road made of now?

[JakeDanger]

Half stones, guys!
It's worth the pain, the visual effect is really good and you get progressive gradients.

Cheers,
Jake

[Maxloader]

Ok well half stones it will be then, for trunk roads.
And gravel for the small sidepaths.

[JakeDanger]

Phase 1 is complete!

[Gazoid]

[Maxloader]

*image*

Cool , will this be one of your awesome bridges again?

[JakeDanger]

Nice! I'm going to not do any more roadbuilding until Sunday, I think. But it will be nice to see it extended

[JakeDanger]

Other road build directions?

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[Maxloader]

Do we want to let the road lead somewhere?

[Gazoid]

*image*

Cool , will this be one of your awesome bridges again?

You know it

[DreadsEye]

I'd really like to help out on pretty much every road that i can. Espacially JakeDangers road is pretty nice.
I hope you won't mind if I expand the road, leading through the landscape a bit. I will mind the red lines you draw on the world Map.

Btw: here another thing. since most of Jakes Road is 3 Blocks wide, and the "Main" Road out of Gravel to CastleCity is only 2 Blocks wide, I'd suggest to widen the Main roads up to 4 Blocks.
Btw HalfStones REALLY look great as a road.

[Gazoid]

Any main road should be 3 blocks wide made from half stones, so we should update the road to CC

Minor roads, should be 1, 2 or sometimes 3 wide, and made of Gravel

[JakeDanger]

Thanks for the good feedback!

Dreadseye, please don't hold back on the roadbuilding, I certainly want to do stuff other than building roads, and you wouldn't believe how time-consuming it is, especially with half cobbles..

I intend to go off a little way further on the red line down to the bottom right of the image I posted, but that's going to be a minor gravel road, i guess.

[Gazoid]

Dreads, heres the plan I said about ingame:



If you could make it to the roundabout, then from there down, that would be awesome

[DreadsEye]

I'll do that, no problem. It'll just eat time.
And about the Bridge. I had plans about a similar Bridge, was already collecting ressources for it. Maybe we could work on that huge Thing together, to make it both, awsome looking, and a shortcut.
I'll start with the road this evening.