Undersea Transport Tubes
BootsTNG
Join Date: 2015-08-12 Member: 207067Members
Join Date: 2015-08-12 Member: 207067Members
I'm not sure if any of you feel "safer" when indoors and you know there's a dozen bonesharks outside. Naturally you don't want to go out there to get to your other base, but what if you didn't have to?
Introducing, Undersea Transport Tubes.
With time and a lot of materials, you, yes you! Could build transparent tubes throughout the undersea world to connect your various bases without having to set foot (Or, err.. swim???) in the outside world. Watch as you step foot in a cool-looking pod, lay on your back, fold your arms and are launched out of your base and zipped across the map watching the beautiful low-res world of Subnautica appear before you in a flash as you either ascend or descend the murky depths.
Naturally this revolutionary mode of transportation would require a "stability" meter, much like bases do. So you could either go for the easy option by placing lean pillars underneath the tube, or if the water is too deep then going for the more resource consuming option of building a giant "fan" that would attach itself to the bottom of the tube and "propel" it upwards, keeping it in place.
If this feature were implemented in Subnautica, not only would it feel "cool" to zip about the undersea world in your pre-built tubes, but would also get you from point A to point B in record time. And since you had to actually build these tubes, it isn't like a way of fast-traveling! Not like discovering some "waypoint," or other such nonsense.
Of course this idea would require a lot of work, but I think it would be a really cool late-game mode of transport. Plus, imagine looking up from the darkness at something that looks like a faintly glowing power-line from the sea floor.
Neat!
Introducing, Undersea Transport Tubes.
With time and a lot of materials, you, yes you! Could build transparent tubes throughout the undersea world to connect your various bases without having to set foot (Or, err.. swim???) in the outside world. Watch as you step foot in a cool-looking pod, lay on your back, fold your arms and are launched out of your base and zipped across the map watching the beautiful low-res world of Subnautica appear before you in a flash as you either ascend or descend the murky depths.
Naturally this revolutionary mode of transportation would require a "stability" meter, much like bases do. So you could either go for the easy option by placing lean pillars underneath the tube, or if the water is too deep then going for the more resource consuming option of building a giant "fan" that would attach itself to the bottom of the tube and "propel" it upwards, keeping it in place.
If this feature were implemented in Subnautica, not only would it feel "cool" to zip about the undersea world in your pre-built tubes, but would also get you from point A to point B in record time. And since you had to actually build these tubes, it isn't like a way of fast-traveling! Not like discovering some "waypoint," or other such nonsense.
Of course this idea would require a lot of work, but I think it would be a really cool late-game mode of transport. Plus, imagine looking up from the darkness at something that looks like a faintly glowing power-line from the sea floor.
Neat!
Comments
Seriously though, this is a good idea. Some kind of rapid transit system, highly expensive, and rather pointless inside bases themselves, but worth it. Some type of vacuum tube sounds good to me.