interim patch for irrigation tower
While a more permanent solution is being configured, I'd like to put forth the following suggestion which should theoretically not be too difficult to implement.
Reduce consumption from 2 per hour to 1 per 48 hours.
What changes?
Disparity between irrigation tower and water dump is closed significantly
Uses around 11-12 water in the time that a water dump takes to use 5, instead of the current 1050+ water to 5 units of water
Changes from water dump being just simply instantly better to being more efficient in water usage, but costing manpower in the form of a beaver worker (currently irrigation tower worker, to my knowledge, is superfluous (like engine workers) only existing to ferry feed stock to the builing)
Stretch request:
Increase irrigation tower watering radius to exceed natural water irrigation area, or at least match it
Related thread: https://timberborn.featureupvote.com/suggestions/215438/irrigation-tower-fix
Comments: 6
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06 Oct, '22
Meia1 water per 48 hours is too low.
Let's do 5 per 24 hours.
and increase the radius to 18 to at least beat the water dump.
Find a way to reduce water dump soil moisture capability.
And we got something! -
09 Oct, '22
FuryoftheStars@Meia: the suggested 1 per 48 hrs is still a little more than double the consumption rate of a water dump.
Doing 5 per 24 hrs, even with an increased affect radius, would still be so significantly poorer than the water dump that most people would still use the water dumps.
As the water dump simply dumps water into a hole creating a lake (albeit small), the rate in which that water evaporates or the range that it affects can’t be changed without also affecting *all* water. -
09 Oct, '22
Jcheung Admini'd still be content with 5/d because that's ~110 instead of the current 1k+ in the same 22ish day timespan
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12 Oct, '22
Meia@furyofthestarts
Yea that is why i added
''Find a way to reduce water dump soil moisture capability.''
Don't make irrigation tower as broken as water dump are, that's my point :P -
15 Oct, '23
Thaina1 water per 3 hours should be enough balanced
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04 Dec, '23
Jcheung Adminmarked 'done' due to removal of irrigation tower and rework of natural irrigation system