[billybobsky]

Two things: Well that's all well and good except for the fact that most of those portals would end up uselessly in caves... Its better to find an area that might be of interest and plop a portal, rather than try to enforce a uniform grid. That said this sort of plopping would work fine with a polar or cartesian system of tunnels..

The nether is not the same as the one from the new world. it is different than the nether that was originally associated with cc, so its entirely new. i have already installed portals to my major points of effort/resources because those portals need to be where they are -- grid systems don't work for portals built into islands far from anything of interest (a description that captures both the new mob trap and my atoll).