Now working on the Spawn Tower, a tower that will go to the top and bottom of the playable world! Literally! Buildcraft is making it, and Redpower 2 and IndustrialCraft 2 are contributing to it with resources (thanks Gwindor for setting up the stone brick factory, and Genesis for contributing some resources!). However, we've run into a problem. We don't have enough power for all this. Plus, the Spawn Tower will have its power needs as well. There's that, and the fact that I want to make a city of sorts. Cities need power.
We can either do this through cables connecting us all, or through some Railcraft stuff. Railcraft is best suited for longer routes, however, and I can see it being less reliable, but there's no energy loss. Still, with multiple power plants and all, we could have more power for everyone. Or, we could keep it restricted to the spawn area. Whatever works. I just think it would make it easier to set things up in the future, and make it a bit easier for the newer players. I could see shared power possibly reducing our iron use as well.
Anyway, thoughts about this? Also looking for input on what to put in the Spawn Tower once it is complete. Mall (at least the server mall) and road are certain to be there.
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multiple updates tomorrow or i will publicly admit that zachnorn is better than me -Sess/MRNICEWATCH
Posted 3/5/12, no more updates since...