I dont know who but someone made this suggestion a while ago. My idea for it: you can build rails belts and normal pipes below those overhead pipes. You can walk under them. You shouldn't be able to build any larger building below it though.
Something like that is actually pretty close to my place, so why not in Factorio
57 is a bit too much. I mean about 3 or so. Doesn't matter.
I still mean overhead pipes are the right direction, because underground is not right visible, or make too many compromise
I think, the look is important. Currently the usage of underground pipes (not your mod in special, but pipes in general) looks like ... mushrooms. I feel like Super Mario...
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The reason why we have pipe to ground, belt to ground and in the future maybe rail to ground is the visibility. The z dimension (height) is quite tricky in Factorio because of the front view (no 45 side rotation). Therefore the above ground pipes / belts would be overlaying with objects further in the back. Not mentioning that for belts to ground there would have to be some tricks for displaying of items to look natural. But yeah, every time I take the train to go to my home town and we pass this factory on the side with pipe over the rail track I am like - damn I want this
Or pictures you get when you search for chemical plant. Normally I don't go so deep into the design of something, but I think this time it is important.
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They need not to be very high. Walking, driving with the car and eventually the train, but no buildings. Belts other pipes only orthogonal.
This "bridge" has also some more usages:
- ok, place pipes on it
- you can walk on it, it can be used as bridge over lakes
- place also belts? Rails? Who knows?
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