Do NOT stop bad water in drought

6 votes

One of the best things about update 5 for me was that bad water was always rolling. It affected two interesting things
1) I needed to think about "back draft", on some maps when the water stopped flowing, bad water flowed into my sanctuary instead. Now this was a bit bad, so a challenge to stop on some maps
2) I could get stable power during droughts, far away on some maps, closer on others. But a cool thing to plan and execute. Nothing worse then fickle wind power or water wheels that stop during drought.

I imagine many of us have different goals in-game.
The way I play the game is to
1) Survive 30d drought/bad tide
2) get above 50 wellbeing
and then I am done with the map. Some additional restrictions might come in a later game.

I usually do this with about 50-70 beavers, no bots. That makes the bad water stuff added in last patch very very late game stuff and not really useful.

So please re-enable bad water during droughts, or at least make it an option.

Under consideration Experimental Suggestion Suggested by: Sigurhel (03 Nov, '23) • Upvoted: 04 Dec, '23 • Comments: 3

Comments: 3

06 Nov, '23
Grey Kylia
stopping the permanent power source is the entire point i believe because it makes power generation stupidly easy from cycle 1 and crowds out the other power generation options. for example why would you ever bother with making wind power that is intermittent and needs batteries when you can just add another waterwheel for power forever? You wouldn't, unless its for aesthetics. Similar situation for IT, why waste the metal and space on engines when you can just have some waterwheels.

with the change it will make people need at least a token amount of other power sources during droughts. Folktails will anyway, since they got hit the hardest by the change because IT can make the badwater remain permanent on with their new building and still keep ignoring engines if they choose. With that building it makes drought power for IT only a temporary concern until they get those dishcharge buidlings. I am more upset that folktails cannot do a similar thing in the mid/late game.
11 Nov, '23
Sigurhel
For me only playing fast hard mode runs, this would enable me to not have to detour into massive battery farm. And the extra fun of planning out water wheel power.
Water wheel atm are almost useless without a huge infrastructure when you have 15-30 days droughts.
08 Dec, '23
Tak
I just don't see the point badwater dries out in drought. It's not the water source, it's a source of contamination.

Why it dries out in droughts? It shouldn't be.