Buildings Balance Issues: Gear Workshop, Irrigation Tower and Bridges

13 votes

- Gear Workshop is way too slow for its high Power usage... Please reduce the time it takes to make a Gear!
- Science points needed to unlock Bridges are too high. Please merge them into a bundle, with the exception of the Metal Block one!
- Irrigation Tower consumes an absurd amount of water and it also needs a full time employee for it to work properly. Please decrease the Water consumption considerably!

Under consideration Suggestion Suggested by: Karmaworks the Log Eater (20 Sep, '21) • Upvoted: 07 Oct, '22 • Comments: 6

Comments: 6

21 Sep, '21
philipov
Upvoted only with regard to Irrigation Tower. These are useless to me, and I don't -want- them to be useful. It's much more interesting for me to build long canals out of walls of Levee blocks. It has a bigger range than irrigation blocks, and only consumes water at the same rate as droughts burn it.

I have played the game for 20 hours longer than I would have otherwise because levee block canals are so fun to design and build. Being forced to use irrigation towers instead would be boring.
21 Sep, '21
Jcheung
of these, the only one i agree with fully is that irrigation towers consume far too much water... pls buff.
26 Sep, '21
Peter D
The water dump probably needs nerfing more than the irrigation tower needs buffing imo, I think an extra worker for irrigation tower would solve the problem.

Yes I find gears a bit slow. Imo gears should take twice as long as it takes to make a plank, not sure how fast it goes now.

I do like the science unlock bundle idea. Focus unlocks more on big picture rather than each individual structure. Reducing the click click tedium of science unlocks is nice.
01 Oct, '21
chess123mate
I like that gears are precious - it's too easy to mass produce everything otherwise. (But I also like higher difficulties; I can imagine this being too much for an easier difficulty!)
08 Oct, '21
4xle
I think the irrigation tower needs to be reworked - why use it when a water dump can fill a 1x1 hole that evaporates far more slowly? If the tower is going to consume large amounts of water, perhaps it could also share the beehive buff to a degree. Need a reason to invest significant water into it besides creating some arable land, or it needs to take less water.
05 Nov, '21
teck
i have a problem with gears as well but while all other buildings seem to produce the number per day as listed inside the gears do not. with 100% power and 90 ish% productivity all other building give you 90% of their number(planks list 13 so 11.7 in example) gears should give .9 times 8 or 7.2 but result is more like 2.5. weither you nerf or buff this at least give us the correct numbers.