Subway tunnels

Villem · **Joined:** Thu Aug 28, 2003 9:38 am **Posts:** 3311

This would be like laying normal train tracks, expect the tunnel would go / then at end of tunnel it would go \ ,that way we can get tunnels inside cities(ya gotta lay whole tunnel at once thou), without exavating land.

like this

Code:

\________/

Purno · **Posted:** Thu Apr 22, 2004 12:58 pm

If it's possible it would be great, but I doubt if it's possible.

GoneWacko · **Posted:** Thu Apr 22, 2004 1:00 pm

OpenTTD will probably be able to do it...

Just like dragging a bridge but instead it builds a tunnel.

I like the idea.

Purno · **Posted:** Thu Apr 22, 2004 1:02 pm

Can it build a tunnel below water?

Like:

Code:

--\  /\ w w w /\  /--
   \-------------/

where w=water and /\ is a dyke

Mek · **Posted:** Thu Apr 22, 2004 1:02 pm

i doubt it will be possible to build anything below sealevel...

GoneWacko · **Posted:** Thu Apr 22, 2004 1:04 pm

Mek wrote:

i doubt it will be possible to build anything below sealevel...

Ever heard of Submerged Tunnels?

fabca2 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 22, 2004 1:07 pm

Purno wrote:

Can it build a tunnel below water?

I think Subway tunnels is interresting for towns...
About water, usually there are no town directly built on water, so you can use bridge for that.

Purno · **Posted:** Thu Apr 22, 2004 1:10 pm

It could be useful to let a bridge cross a tunnel, because bridges can't cross bridges.

Bjarni · **Joined:** Mon Mar 08, 2004 1:10 pm **Posts:** 2088

This is hard to do because there aren't room to store it in the current memory allocation for each tile. If that have to change, the savegame format have to change as well

It's not impossible, but I'm sure it will NOT be in the next release

VPN-User · **Posted:** Thu Apr 22, 2004 7:28 pm

f*** the savegame format, f*** the compatibility! OpenTTD is an independent and new game, I don' t want to miss a thing just because being compatible :!:

MagicBuzz · **Posted:** Thu Apr 22, 2004 7:40 pm

fabca2 wrote:

Purno wrote:

Can it build a tunnel below water?

I think Subway tunnels is interresting for towns...
About water, usually there are no town directly built on water, so you can use bridge for that.

Humm... You're french, so you should ever gone to Paris... In paris, there are 43 bridges on the Seine, AND there is at least 10 tunnels under !

Just counting metro :
- Line 1 (one tunnel - near "La Défense")
- Line 6 (one tunnel)
- Line 8 (one tunnel and maybe a second - not sure)
- Line 13 (one tunnel)
- Line 4 (2 tunnel each side of Island "La cité / Notre Dame)
- Line 7 (one tunnel)
- Line 14 (one tunnel)
-----------
7 tunnels

For RER :
- Line C (one tunnel)
- Line B (one tunnel)
- Line D (one tunnel)
- Line A (one tunnel - near "La Défense")
----------------
4 tunnels

And I don't speak about road tunnels

You xan check it out here :

London should be the same, because of the Tamise. I think all cities with subways and crossed by a river should hane many tunnels as well

Bjarni · **Joined:** Mon Mar 08, 2004 1:10 pm **Posts:** 2088

VPN-User wrote:

f*** the savegame format, f*** the compatibility! OpenTTD is an independent and new game, I don' t want to miss a thing just because being compatible :!:

That was not what I said. I said it needs some work (read time from developers)
Other stuff like multiplayer have higher priority

VPN-User · **Posted:** Thu Apr 22, 2004 7:46 pm

Sure, internet/multiplayer is on the very top of my wishlist :wink:

Bjarni · **Joined:** Mon Mar 08, 2004 1:10 pm **Posts:** 2088

MagicBuzz wrote:

fabca2 wrote:

Purno wrote:

Can it build a tunnel below water?

I think Subway tunnels is interresting for towns...
About water, usually there are no town directly built on water, so you can use bridge for that.

Humm... You're french, so you should ever gone to Paris... In paris, there are 43 bridges on the Seine, AND there is at least 10 tunnels under !

Just counting metro :
- Line 1 (one tunnel - near "La Défense")
- Line 6 (one tunnel)
- Line 8 (one tunnel and maybe a second - not sure)
- Line 13 (one tunnel)
- Line 4 (2 tunnel each side of Island "La cité / Notre Dame)
- Line 7 (one tunnel)
- Line 14 (one tunnel)
-----------
7 tunnels

For RER :
- Line C (one tunnel)
- Line B (one tunnel)
- Line D (one tunnel)
- Line A (one tunnel - near "La Défense")
----------------
4 tunnels

And I don't speak about road tunnels

You xan check it out here :

(edited out image, since it was big)

London should be the same, because of the Tamise. I think all cities with subways and crossed by a river should hane many tunnels as well

I know there are some in Copenhagen and I'm pretty sure that there have to be some in New York as well, othervise the subway station(s) on manhatten have a pretty short line

But there are tunnels under water for long distance trains too. Just think of the tunnel between England and France or the tunnel between Denmark and Sweden

BTW: it's spelled "Thames", not "Tamise"

fabca2 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 22, 2004 7:55 pm

MagicBuzz wrote:

Humm... You're french, so you should ever gone to Paris... In paris
......................

yes yes, I know, you have everything in paris... even undersea... hum...

but you spoke about river in fact (at lyon, we have two rivers for the same price!

).

I was speaking about sea...
As far as I saw, I didn't see so much river thru towns in [O]TT[D].
I think town are yet quite small, I hope there won't be any river in the future ..

So without river in town, there are less sens for that

PS: thanks for the map, quite nice

PPS : in fact I was wrong, the chanel (between UK and FR) is a good example of undersea tunel... but it's rare...

MagicBuzz · **Posted:** Thu Apr 22, 2004 7:58 pm

Sorry, in France we like translating name of cities and rivers

London = Londres
Thames = Tamise

Snorbuckle · **Posted:** Thu Apr 22, 2004 9:14 pm

Yeah, and we Brits call Paris... um... Paris... >_>

mike[F] · **Joined:** Fri Mar 26, 2004 6:56 pm **Posts:** 232

But pronounced differently...

Born Acorn · **Posted:** Sat Apr 24, 2004 9:51 pm

Paree is it prounounced for you?

I like the subay suggestion, but maybe a RCT/simcity series style underground view for viewing them, stations can just be plazas with stairs and then underneath how many platforms etc.

mike[F] · **Joined:** Fri Mar 26, 2004 6:56 pm **Posts:** 232

English pronounciation: Pahr-iss
French pronunciation: Pahr-ee

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