Water tunnels ?

Luz · Post by **Luz** » 28 Aug 2005 19:20

How about water tunnels?

Instead of building over stuff with canals, build under them with a tunnel like roads and trains ?

I generally think the whole ships thingy ingame is to small at the moment

bobingabout · Post by **bobingabout** » 28 Aug 2005 22:20

imo, these things should be possable.

devyn · Post by **devyn** » 29 Aug 2005 03:56

This has been suggested before:
http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=7458
slightly mentioned on http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=13222

The general concept of a ship tunnel, I don't particularly like. However, the road/rail block-off for canals is quite annoying. Maybe it should be made so that you can substitue a 3 tile stretch of road/rail with the best bridge available (with option of lowering the terrain to sea level), regardless of who owns the road/rail.

ConductorBob · Post by **ConductorBob** » 29 Aug 2005 06:32

Well what about signals and junctions that are in those areas?

Born Acorn · Post by **Born Acorn** » 29 Aug 2005 11:48

http://home.no.net/lotsberg/data/norway ... unnel.html

quite real.

Scia · Post by **Scia** » 29 Aug 2005 20:24

This is from a place where I used to go on holiday with my parents: Canal de la Marne a la Saone. And it is very old too. It's 4820 meter long and it is in France.

Scia

devyn · Post by **devyn** » 30 Aug 2005 02:44

I'm not trying to argue that they don't exist or are unrealistic. But the ships in those pictures don't look like oil barges or hovercraft that can carry 100 passengers...

MeusH · Post by **MeusH** » 30 Aug 2005 05:03

That's right, I also don't like the idea of having massive tankers going through the canals...

Kong Basse · Post by **Kong Basse** » 30 Aug 2005 06:07

MeusH wrote:.....I also don't like the idea of having massive tankers going through the canals...

But they do!
Look at panama and suez.

Scia · Post by **Scia** » 30 Aug 2005 08:05

The standard ships in OTTD don't look to me like massive tankers

. Besides, that canal was made in 1880. So maybe massive oil tankers should be like 2 squares wide and 4 squares long or so, but thats not the topic here. Well, maybe these tunnels should only be enterable by small ships or so. Anyway, It doesn't look realistic to me that you can have massive oil tankers all over the map even in the middle of the land. The standard ships look to me as if they are supposed to be canal vessels and not really sea vessels.

Scia

MeusH · Post by **MeusH** » 30 Aug 2005 10:19

Kong Basse wrote:
MeusH wrote:.....I also don't like the idea of having massive tankers going through the canals...
But they do!
Look at panama and suez.

I was talking about attached screenshots. OTTD locks and canals are in size of that canals.
I'm not talking about big, deep canals for big ships. OTTD canals just look like recreational canals (for boats, maybye small fishing ships)

bobingabout · Post by **bobingabout** » 30 Aug 2005 10:41

OTTD can build canals, maybe they should also allow canal tunnel and bridge building?

JenovaUK · Post by **JenovaUK** » 30 Aug 2005 11:34

You can join as many canal blocks as you want and the walls are removed where they join, perhaps the same could be done to the locks so that there is giant locks.

Samurai · Post by **Samurai** » 03 Sep 2005 05:51

I'm all for this.

Recently finished a game where 2 guys proceeded to destroy mine and 3 other companies who happened to be using ships and tankers. They were both on the same team and raised land all over the place blocking canals and other routes. To make sure they did the ob right they placed land buying signs all over them making it impossible for us to overcome.

I did happen to take some screenshots using the in-game feature but I can't seem to find them now

They were definately saved though, but don't seem to be in any of my directories

If a "water tunnel" was implemented it would be advantageous to many people, especially if you have idiots raising land and purchasing it.

Samurai

Samurai · Post by **Samurai** » 29 Nov 2005 18:41

Just saw this posted on another forum... a water bridge.

This is what was posted underneath...

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Six years, 500 million euros, 918 meters long.......now this is engineering! 
This is a channel-bridge over the River Elbe and joins the former East and West Germany, as part of the unification project. It is located in the city of Magdeburg, near Berlin. The photo was taken on the day of inauguration.

Now, this is something I'd love to see in OTTD

Smudge · Post by **Smudge** » 29 Nov 2005 19:29

Looks awesome!

Having the same possibilities with water as you have with rails/roads.

DeletedUser21 · Post by **DeletedUser21** » 29 Nov 2005 21:32

Useability: 'An enhancement of the canal.'
Difficulity to code: 'I guess, but I'm not a developer.'

bobingabout · Post by **bobingabout** » 30 Nov 2005 09:31

coding shouldn't be a problem, its getting the graphics to look right

Born Acorn · Post by **Born Acorn** » 30 Nov 2005 15:42

Made this for peter1138 a while ago. He might just be planning something....

Villem · Post by **Villem** » 30 Nov 2005 15:49

I think canale tunnels would have higher chance of being done if someone does graphics for them..

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