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RedWick

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River rapids
« on: November 21, 2008, 06:48:25 pm »

When two rivers meet up, there's usually a multi-z level waterfall that drops directly from the level of the higher river to the lower level one.  My suggestion is, rather than having all rivers that meet up do this sort of thing, instead have a gradual drop in z-levels from the higher level to the lower level one (like one or two levels at a time).  You wouldn't want to get rid of all the large waterfalls obviously, but mixing up the tall falls with rapids would create some more interesting locations to explore and build on.
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Caffienatedjedi

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Re: River rapids
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2008, 07:45:55 pm »

My large rivers naturally do this ;D. Whenever there is a drop it forms a waterfall at first but then turns into a watery slope.
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By that logic, wagons are the gods of war.

Draco18s

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Re: River rapids
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2008, 11:23:25 pm »

The real trick is getting the water back up the other side.

(Don't ever embark at a river-river crossing where there are 2 inlets and 2 outlets: there's barely enough land for a wagon).
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