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The butcher

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How dangerous are aquifers?
« on: May 03, 2010, 09:33:56 pm »

Do they flood everything?Or just alot of squares?
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Re: How dangerous are aquifers?
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2010, 09:35:40 pm »

Depends on your engineering. Just be careful with how you tap into the aquifer and its perfectly safe.
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Re: How dangerous are aquifers?
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2010, 09:41:51 pm »

Worst case scenario: Failing to correctly breach the aquifer and set up good fail safes leads to the flooding of every fort level at or below the aquifer.
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Re: How dangerous are aquifers?
« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2010, 09:42:35 pm »

Will a flood gate stop them?
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Re: How dangerous are aquifers?
« Reply #4 on: May 03, 2010, 09:44:48 pm »

Will a flood gate stop them?
Yes, as long as it cannot go above, around or below the floodgate. You are safe.
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Re: How dangerous are aquifers?
« Reply #5 on: May 03, 2010, 10:52:48 pm »

Aquifers are an infinite source of water.  They aren't much more dangerous than a river, which are also infinite sources of water, except that occasionally you get unlucky and breach an aquifer from below.  Water never rises above the level where it came from.  But it does fall, and infinity is a lot of water.
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Re: How dangerous are aquifers?
« Reply #6 on: May 03, 2010, 10:58:30 pm »

If the game simulated water off-site on the world, would be a awesome megaproject to flood the world with an aquifer from a desert.
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Re: How dangerous are aquifers?
« Reply #7 on: May 04, 2010, 09:32:45 am »

Be very careful if you have extreme elevation changes in your site.  I've seen a couple cases where sites with MANY levels of elevation change have aquifers that drain into caverns, killing your FPS (and making the cavern quite unusable to boot).

Non-EXTREME elevation changes should be fine though.
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