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Re: Stacked connection points on moonbase standard?
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lugnet.space
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Fri, 5 Mar 2004 01:53:46 GMT
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In lugnet.space, David Laswell wrote:
> In lugnet.space, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
> > as far as I understand it - leveled connection points follow a similiar rule
> > to the monorail: first floor at 10, 2nd at 20, 3rd at 30, etc (of course,
> > 10bricks + 1 plate).
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> The floors do all sit at 10-brick intervals according to the revision discussion
> from last year. That does mean that two stacked layers would need 4 bricks and
> 1 plate spacing if they maintain the same interior dimensions as the hallway
> connection. At least one listed justification for this height was that it would
> be easier to remember exactly how many bricks of height you'd need for other
> layers (10,20,30 as compared to 8,16,24)
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> I don't remember if the Monorail system was a consideration in this, but whether
> by coincidence or intent, the Monorail ramps result in a 10-brick height change,
> so everything matches up perfectly at every layer. Well, except for the fact
> that Monorail track always sits at the same height as the floors, so you need
> quite a step-up (at least 2-1/3 brick to match the sled height) for a Monorail
> station platform.
I think the monorail platform had a lot to do with the 10, 20, 30 etc standard.
I agree that by doing that standard, there is a big step up for the monorail
sled. Hmm...wonder if there's any way to recess that rail... but you could
always build up some steps with plates starting from the doorway...
Not to bash the standard, but with the 10, 20, etc bottom plate standard, that
leaves a pretty considerable space between the connection rings, doesn't it?
Given that a minifig is about 4ish bricks high, and a connection corridor is 5
bricks high, but the next level at 10 bricks higher--leaves quite a bit of
overhead, doesn't it?
hm...maybe it's needed to run all the plumbing, hoses, communications, fleebnork
nests, Planet 10 creatures, sea monkey hideouts, water channels for dolphins,
and area for special blacktron ops agents to move about undetected...
Scott
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| (...) Not if you want to be able to run ground-level track on Moonbase-compliant baseplates. If you don't mind running elevated Monorail, there's no reason why you can't just drop the tracks to 7/17/27/etc. off the ground. (...) That would be the (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Stacked connection points on moonbase standard?
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| (...) The floors do all sit at 10-brick intervals according to the revision discussion from last year. That does mean that two stacked layers would need 4 bricks and 1 plate spacing if they maintain the same interior dimensions as the hallway (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.space)
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