It’s been a week since I stared construction on the road to Whitechapel. From it’s start to now, I don’t know how many people have helped me with this project. And I’m no where near done yet.
I’ve been on pretty much all day, working on this as long as I can. Sometimes getting bored, sometimes feeling energetic to want to keep going, and even… sometimes regretting that I signed up for this(all because I have nothing else to do with my life).
And also, constantly having to tell people “Yes, I won the bid” and “it’s going to Whitechapel”, and having to say for people who ask ‘You going to do more exits?”, I say “That’s up to frozen”.
But there was a section where I was ready to just give up. It was near the halfway point of the build. Going by the plan, frozen wanted a ridiculously-wide left curve. I thought, there’s no fucking way I could do this!
Enter ‘RedBear47’, a really nice guy, and has been my savior for most of this project. He’s been hanging out on the server, a bit North of my island, minding his own business and hardly saying anything. But lately, I believe I loosened him up to be more talkative on the server (and even have his oldest son come on the server).
He’s been helping me with difficult angles, yet I’m being given the credit. Of course, that’s not fair on Red as he’s done all the heavy planning. This is the issue with me and having help from others. They think I did it, when I have to give credit to the people that actually did it. It also feels a bit depressing. I should be able to build anything I put my mind to, yet I keep relying on others… :/
This came really true today, when the road entered a Taiga Hills biome. It was night, and I’m flying through this area of how to plan the road to snake through. I had the Taiga Line with a visible station close by. I decide to sleep on it, thinking all I need to do is just clear out trees, while also keeping the road hidden from the station.
The next day, I still didn’t know how to work with it. Had to get help, and we went with just taking the road West.
But that move costed an even harsher area I had to work with (which I’m still working on).
RL’s railroad to the left of me, and hills all fucking over the place. There were only a few places I could squeeze the road through. Yet both, I can only get one road through. Thankfully, RedBear popped up later to help me plan out this route.
This had the road going in a diagonal hard right to avoid RL’s railroad, and a hill directly infront of the road. Then diagonal and splitting apart to pass two large hills, to finally continue heading West toward hopefully less inhospitable terrain.
Haven’t hit the 3/4 point yet, and I’m regretting wanting to do this. The next time this happens, I’ll wait until there’s a much, much easier route.