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(U.T.B.D.: 'Underground Transport Belt Direction'. I used this so the topic title wasn't so big.) I have searched and searched, but cannot find a topic about P.D. & U.T.B.D. I would like to suggest diagonal directions for Transport belts, Underground Transport belts & Underground pipelines. When you place an underground belt, you can only place it in a horizontal or vertical position, not diagonal. The distance that you can place them apart from each other is great, but diagonal placements would be great. Example: lets say you have an oil storages located at points 'X':

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... and you want to direct a pipeline connecting them (I don't know why you would want to). Well, you have to go down in a vertical line from the first one, then turn left and "pipe out" from there. I know, I know, you could just move one of them. Crisis, you can't. Because of all the other, belts, and junk you might have separating the two, so it would take a quit a bit of moving around to complete that. Well, if there were diagonal belts/pipelines, you could. I have my theory about that coming up. And here it is: Like already implemented in the game, you can rotate objects such as these (ex: belts) by pressing the 'R' key. Well, my suggestion is that you press 'R' to normally rotate these items, but can rotate them diagonally using 'Ctrl + R'. I have indeed read the sticky topic of how long and short, etc. your suggestion form should be, so I will not write anymore about this topic unless needed. E-mail me at [E-mail removed] if any additional info is needed. Thanks!


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The current system allows for auto-connecting belts/pipes, and since all pipes are horizontal or vetical right now, that means you only have the 4 directional options. To be able to create a diagonal, you would need a pipe that can connect on a non-flush plane. This would need a whole heap of extra work.

I think the better sugestion would be to be able to place your own pipes in an underground plane, basically a 2 layer system. unfortunately that would mean you can't have 2 crossing paths like you do now.

I guess that is so, and yes, the plane would mean you can't create two crossing pipes.