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Shard

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reducing aquifers
« on: January 05, 2014, 05:51:01 pm »
Is there a way to reduce the number of aquifers you get without eliminating them entirely?
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kingubu

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Re: reducing aquifers
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2014, 06:16:35 pm »
Dr UristLove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Aquifer.

Sorry, that's no help, it just ran through my head when I saw this.  I won't embark without an aquifer anymore.
Trivial answer would be to remove aquifer tags from some but not all of the RAWs.  A bit painstaking to do also.
A quick search through the worldgen thread seems to indicate increasing drainage and elevation reduces aquifers.  Don't know about that personally.
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Garath

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Re: reducing aquifers
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2014, 08:14:28 pm »
And to be able to undo your edits just make a backup of the raws you edit. The files are small enough that you won't notice even on older (5 to 6 years) machines. It's after all just a text file
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