Taking a look at the "Pneumatic Tubes" suggestion I liked the concept of having a system that carries you from place to place, but felt it could be executed in a much more simple fashion. As we already have Poles and Magnetizers for veritcal movement, how about something for the horizontal? Enter the idea for Magnetic Propulsion Plating.
Propulsion plating is powered like poles by a magnetizer hooked up to one side. When stepping onto the plating while wearing metal boots you would accelerate to incredibly fast speeds in the direction you were facing, eating some amount of stored EU like the Pole, until stepping back onto another surface.
An additional idea is that by powering it with sufficient EU current from below using cables you could create an electrically charged floor that damages player and mobs like high voltage.
Magnetic Propulsion Plating would be a full block and borrow heavily from the coding used in Poles, and HC voltage if the second idea were also implemented, giving a relatively simple method of making IndustrialCraft players masters of both the vertical and the horizontal.
Possible recipe ideas could include:
| = Electric Fence
| = Wires (of an appropriate type) = BatBox, Integ-Circuit, or something of the sort.
| = Reinforced Iron or some kind of Metal if the floor can be charged into an electric death floor or Rubber if not (for insulation).
Recipe subject to whatever Alblaka or the rest of the team thinks in fair. Would probably provide several blocks worth though for easy creation of magnetic propulsion lanes and stations or mob death-trap rooms.
