Quote Originally Posted by TinCow View Post
I was thinking of a Seattle style structure. Flared bottom, narrow middle, with a glass-enclosed saucer on top to walk around and see in all directions. The pillar itself would need to have some kind of efficient ascend/descend mechanism just to avoid the climb being annoying. I tried building a really cool elevator at my place a few months ago, but it turned out to not work due to MP server lag. I've seen designs for up-only elevator systems that are supposed to work on servers. They're ugly and uni-directional, but they're pretty compact, not resource intense, and they work so that's probably what would be best to use. To get down, the fastest method would just be a drop-chute with a pool at the bottom.
The drop pool makes sense and allows a boat elevator to look natural. I'm assuming that still works.