These are well established political definitions, not something we just up and decided a few days ago. Political position along a left and right axis, defined in the context of the economic present, with a pro- or anti-capitalist stance on either side. “The Left” has more or less been defined by an anti-capitalism - pro-socialism stance for a long time, despite whatever labels some news outlets choose to use to demonize liberals and Democrats. They restrict definitions to the Overton window, just a sliver of the full political spectrum, which is firmly planted rightward, and promote the idea that the left side of the window is “The Left”. It isn’t. Many iberals and the democratic party are firmly pro-capitalist. It isn’t that they are good or bad leftists, they just aren’t leftists at all. We aren’t too busy figuring this out, we’ve been clear with these definitions for forever.

I appreciate it!

I’m still very much in the placing pieces as I go phase, and haven’t had to deal with many inclines. However, I am aware that vehicles can handle the 2m slopes and not the 4m slopes. As long as I approach any height difference with that in mind, my slope blueprints will clear. I’m also giving myself plenty of ground clearance and will place my supports under the road to appropriately blend. Then it doesn’t much matter if I’m a little higher up off the ground, but would generally like to keep it at around power tower height unless needed for the incline’s sake.

I also have bottom and top slope transition blueprints as well as slopes. I can use beams from there to gauge my distances to start or properly position the slopes direction.

I originally tried using power towers for supports and building around them, but it just did not look great. A lot of fooling around with beams and frames, I got something that actually worked for me. I might still somehow integrate power towers at different intervals on blueprinted platforms that match the design but it just will be redundant and another way to get around with zip lines. I just imagined an all in one transport network infrastructure plan, but just sticking with platforms for roads and trains was enough of a foundation to work off of, and really the best core to function while while extras can be worked out later.

I love that you have “belt channels” between factory buildings. Looks super good! I wish I spent more time on interiors. My HMF factory looked great until I tried to conform a design inside the factory shell, and I just… Gave up. It’s producing and I don’t want to stop it! But once I had it rolling and started decorating, then I decided to care about what it looked like. Sure, the belts and pipework look good, but the integration of walk ability and nice lighting? I really should have considered that before I slapped some walls up, hmmm…

The bends were easy. I did both left and right directions a single deck, one tighter turn, one wider turn. Then stacked those prints for the second deck. The hard part was getting everything EXCEPT the foundations to line up and be coherent. I’ll add homebrew light posts from blueprints to slopes and turns after placement.

It will be more of a struggle when I start figuring junctions and merges/splits into the design, having to make one item, like a t-junction, between two different prints. Even the 6x6 blueprinter may not be enough. All of my current prints were done in the 5x5.

4 foundations wide. There is an 8m ceiling height from the lower deck. After a bit of testing, I maybe should have gone 9 meters, but it’s fine!

I found more pictures accessible from discord, but I’m having problems getting them to post. I’ll work it out when I get home this afternoon.

Maybe this will work?

There we go!

Another interesting look.

And another! With rail!