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[Align]

Anyone who's fascinatedly read about the savannah and its inhabitants (or watched Discovery channel) is likely familiar with stories of how areas would get drier and drier until there's only dust and debris. As the seasons change, finally the rains come and flood away all the garbage, and dust becomes fertile mud.

I believe currently water spawns in river edges at an even rate and then goes off the map at the same rate. Is it possible to decrease this level so it's not always 7/7 entering and leaving the map?

[Warlord255]

Damming the river at its start point comes to mind; following that up with opening a small hole in the dam would likely allow you to regulate the water flow to a shallow depth. Bonus points if you trap a siege/merchants in it, then flood the river.

[Tormy]

I don't know....it requires hundreds of years for a river to dry out. So even if we will have a feature like this, you probably won't notice anything, if it's gonna be implemented in a realistic way.

[Silverionmox]

The problem is obviously that water moves in slow motion now. It should move ten times as fast. Stopping it from draining FPS ten times as fast would at least require a solution for tracking stable bodies of water that don't fit the /7 mould.

[Granite26]

I don't know....it requires hundreds of years for a river to dry out. So even if we will have a feature like this, you probably won't notice anything, if it's gonna be implemented in a realistic way.

Not true at all... there are places where there's a river in the wet season and no river in the dry season (just a riverbed)

[Neonivek]

I don't know....it requires hundreds of years for a river to dry out. So even if we will have a feature like this, you probably won't notice anything, if it's gonna be implemented in a realistic way.

Not true at all... there are places where there's a river in the wet season and no river in the dry season (just a riverbed)

There are some where there is no river in Dry season and a flood in wet season!

And lets not gets started on Tidal Caves.

[Pilsu]

I would not want to be a ground dwelling creature in a game with monsoons 

[Duke 2.0]

I would not want to be a ground dwelling creature in a game with monsoons 

 That's why you don't live in tidal basins.

[The Doctor]

Well, if you go to a REALLY scorching area, the river boils away. So does the grass... And your dwarfs.

[Tormy]

I don't know....it requires hundreds of years for a river to dry out. So even if we will have a feature like this, you probably won't notice anything, if it's gonna be implemented in a realistic way.

Not true at all... there are places where there's a river in the wet season and no river in the dry season (just a riverbed)

Really?...but can we call that a river at all? Nile, Danube, Zambezi, Mississippi etc...now those are rivers.

[Align]

Let's just say that when it rains in these rivers, it rains. None of this cissy 2 meters of water in 4 weeks.

[G-Flex]

Really?...but can we call that a river at all?

Yes. By definition.

[Neonivek]

I would not want to be a ground dwelling creature in a game with monsoons 

 That's why you don't live in tidal basins.

And that is why you create flood control!

But in general yeah

[Draco18s]

I don't know....it requires hundreds of years for a river to dry out. So even if we will have a feature like this, you probably won't notice anything, if it's gonna be implemented in a realistic way.

Not true at all... there are places where there's a river in the wet season and no river in the dry season (just a riverbed)

Really?...but can we call that a river at all? Nile, Danube, Zambezi, Mississippi etc...now those are rivers.

See: Intermittent River

[Dakira]

Los Angeles River anyone?

The LA basin has had a natural set of rivers run though it (It's concrete now and has been for a while). During the summer there's barely a trickle in most parts; whereas in the winter you can have so much water that it will literally flush out all of the waterways and any junk that people inevitable leave down there. Rescues happen all the time from people who get caught up in those torrential waters.