Drill to Aquilifer

[Snowflake]

Is it possible for the garland crater with river become a big lake? Just curious.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Originally posted by HongHu
Is it possible for the garland crater with river become a big lake? Just curious.

You get curiously enough a circular river.

[GeoModder]

Or... You can drop a 'buster in the middle of the crater when a unit (or base) is in the central tile. (works with fission buster only)

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe


You get curiously enough a circular river.

I just think of it as a low lying marshy boggy area--- It is possible to walk across it but you get your feet wet

[livid imp]

Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe You get curiously enough a circular river.

I once tried to drill the eight squares surrounding my SSC (you can do this if you start all your formers before any rivers are actually created) hoping to create a sunburst pattern away from the city. Instead, all the rivers interconnected and I ended up with a little moat ringing around my city.

[Sirrocco]

I've never tried, it, though I probably should in the really dry areas like the dune desert. I don't really worry about pressure domes, because that's one of the first things I have my bases build, besides research improvments, and military defenses and improvements.

[Snowflake]

Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe


You get curiously enough a circular river.

At least you don't lose any water that way.

[Minute Mirage]

Originally posted by Sirrocco
I've never tried, it, though I probably should in the really dry areas like the dune desert. I don't really worry about pressure domes, because that's one of the first things I have my bases build, besides research improvments, and military defenses and improvements.

I never build pressure domes, unless there's actually an urgent need for them (sea levels rising).

[Dis]

I never build them either.

Usually by the time the sea levels are rising (which doesn't happen often in my games), my economy is so good I can rush by all of them.

[livid imp]

I think the reason he brought up pressure domes is my previous post about rivers lowering the terrain during gobal warming (even terrain your base is on). Which in that case, yes you would want domes.

[MrWhereItsAt]

The real question is whether this is the best use of your formers. Surely there are far better ways of increasing energy (Boreholes, Tidal Harnesses, raise terrain, build Mirrors etc). I would have thought the only reason to do this was if you couldn't spare the time for buiding a condensor or you wanted a less ecologically harmful way of increasing raininess, or if you had a SSC that had everything except a river on every tile. Then building them all together would be quite a nice little boost.

[Net Warrior]

Boreholes block rivers IIRC; raising/lowering land only diverts them.

[Barinthus]

Originally posted by HongHu


At least you don't lose any water that way.

Imagine the stink alto.

[Snowflake]

Hey I didn't say the water doesn't flow in a circular motion. And flowing water never stinks.

[Kody]

I can name a few stinky rivers.

I think you're getting it confused with well oxygenated water. When water runs over rocks and gets alot of oxygen in it I think it either kills bacteria, or the bacteria doesn't break down certain componds to create oxygen. I remember reading somewhere the breakdown of componds by the bacteria causes the smell.