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Chadamonkey

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Suspension Bridges

So here's the rundown: building bridges across water uses a LOT of structures, causes lag, and uses an absurd amount of resources. I'm envisioning 2 types of new structures (support pillars and suspension ropes) to allow players to construct suspension bridges that will use far less resources and cause much less lag because there would be fewer structures required. Obviously if you can make a suspension bridge of infinite size it would be too OP as you could build a bridge out of render over an enemy base and then drop dinos from it (or any other number of shenanigans like building skyways across the map) so there need to be limiting factors. First, the support pillars would be required to be placed on a foundation or ground. They would not be able to snap to ceilings or any other structures other than foundations, not even to each other or other pillars. Second, the ropes would only be able to extend so far from the pillar before they would start refusing to snap, something like 5 ropes (So you would be able to make a bridge 10 across if you built each side separately). Third, the ropes would only extend foundation support by 1 space instead of 2 so you couldn't build bridges wide enough for titans but you would be able to squeeze a T-rex through (foundation pillars would snap to the side of the foundation so they aren't in the way. Lastly, structures that are only supported by suspension ropes would take increased damage as if they were in a cave, or perhaps they would even be able to be damaged by things they normally wouldn't be hurt by (creatures that would damage stone could damage metal suspension bridges). There would be 2 tiers for the bridge structures: wood and metal. Wood would use ropes and metal would use cables.

I think suspension bridges balanced in this manner would make an excellent addition to the game and allow players to construct more elegant designs while limiting lag issues by removing the need for large amounts of snapped structures providing support.

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