Update 5 10/12/23 hotfix issues
In the new hotfix for Update 5, there was tweaks to the water physics that stop the contamination through dams, levees, and floodgates. I understand you also made this change to irrigation. I think making it to irrigation is unreasonable because now no made how large a water source you can't make it usuable land. Unless the water can make contact next to Ground it won't make it usable for agriculture. It feels unreasonable and unrealistic. Now the only way to make usuable water sources is to use dynamite or terraforming when are in my opinion to far gated behind research and the need for metal to be the answer. I would rather deal with Badwater contamination going through levees then to loss the ability to irrigation through levees. I unfortunately will have to put the game down unless this is fixed.
Comments: 3
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13 Oct, '23
Gin Fuyou AdminThere are really a number of ways to solve it, but devs are monitoring feedback so it might be changed
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14 Oct, '23
Ryan HattI feel that the switch to having levee's block everything was perhaps a bit fast. There was some promising exploration of blasting air trenches down to hold off ground contamination. I'm not sure it'll see much investigation any more as Levee's are easier to access.
I wouldn't revert it at this point. May as well let us experiment with the game as it is now, or with some minor tweaks. -
16 Oct, '23
VizzI love the idea of this feature; not the initial execution. What I think is that only the levee blocks themselves shouldn't allow irrigation or contamination to pass through them; make it go around them both horizontally (which the build currently handles) and vertically. In the current stable game build we see that water irrigation can spread vertically from a cube of water albeit not as far out horizontally the further up you go. So to fully block the contamination from spreading from the bad water, one would either have to blow down 2-3 layers and levee back up around the banks of the badwater flow, or quite literally, create a levee river where the water has no contact with the earth tiles at all and is complete surrounded by levees. So placing levees above the banks of the rivers would have no perceived effect on irrigation/contaminate; but placing the levees within the river at the banks (thus narrowing your river) would significantly reduce irrigation and contamination alike.