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by Pyrodogg 4393 days ago
The elevator problem is partially solved by never leaving your section of the mega tower!

Work on level 120 Sleep on 73 Recreation on 145 Skyway connections to neighboring mega towers every 50-75 levels.

Actually travelling to the surface world would be akin to driving for hours across the state. It's a trip and would be planned for accordingly, and happen rarely.

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>Actually travelling to the surface world would be akin to driving for hours across the state. It's a trip and would be planned for accordingly, and happen rarely.

I must be missing something. 10,000ft is 1.8ish miles. That's like an 8 minute bike ride not a cross-state drive. Even if it took 30 minutes by elevator, that's a reasonable commute in cities like Chicago.

Yea, I went funny with the scale. Jumped straight from skycraper to something the size of a GSV from the Culture series.