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Dwarf Fortress => DF General Discussion => Topic started by: I3erent on April 23, 2007, 10:24:00 am

Title: YEAH NO MORE DAMN AQUEDUCTS!!!!
Post by: I3erent on April 23, 2007, 10:24:00 am
SEE DEV NOTES!
Title: Re: YEAH NO MORE DAMN AQUEDUCTS!!!!
Post by: Grue on April 23, 2007, 12:01:00 pm
Well, how are you supposed to transport magma over river then? Dig under river? By the same logic, bridges are useless too.
Title: Re: YEAH NO MORE DAMN AQUEDUCTS!!!!
Post by: TotalPigeon on April 23, 2007, 12:08:00 pm
You can't compare bridges to aqueducts! Bridges kill things!
Title: Re: YEAH NO MORE DAMN AQUEDUCTS!!!!
Post by: Slartibartfast on April 23, 2007, 12:55:00 pm
Bridges aren't useless because they are retractable, so great in case of sieges.
Title: Re: YEAH NO MORE DAMN AQUEDUCTS!!!!
Post by: I3erent on April 23, 2007, 01:22:00 pm
The aqueducts sucked i dont know how many fortresses i flooded.
Title: Re: YEAH NO MORE DAMN AQUEDUCTS!!!!
Post by: Jusal on April 23, 2007, 01:37:00 pm
quote:
Originally posted by Grue:
<STRONG>Well, how are you supposed to transport magma over river then? Dig under river? By the same logic, bridges are useless too.</STRONG>

I believe that "Pipes" of which Toady talked about at some point are going to be the replacement for aqueducts and I can't see why they couldn't be used to transport liquids over  rivers/chasms. Also with the updates there are to come you might not have to transport your magma over a river at all, the cliff faces are going to be very different.

Title: Re: YEAH NO MORE DAMN AQUEDUCTS!!!!
Post by: Jaqie Fox on April 23, 2007, 06:22:00 pm
Hmm. I have never had a single problem with aqueducts save they don't stop the natural flooding of rivers under them to my 'lava channels' leaving the lava tunnel service corridor succeptible to tower cap blocking.
Title: Re: YEAH NO MORE DAMN AQUEDUCTS!!!!
Post by: herrbdog on April 23, 2007, 07:07:00 pm
For that exact reason I have been smoothing the floors of all my access tunnels. Well, I have been smoothing EVERY floor tile except my tree farms and some tiles near my river crossing, as they get muddy early.
Title: Re: YEAH NO MORE DAMN AQUEDUCTS!!!!
Post by: axus on April 24, 2007, 11:45:00 am
I'm more happy about the getting rid of channels thing.  I hope that pipes let us do everything we wanted to do with channels.  Can dwarves walk on pipes?
Title: Re: YEAH NO MORE DAMN AQUEDUCTS!!!!
Post by: Anticheese on April 24, 2007, 04:56:00 pm
And now for a quote from Beneath a Steel Sky:

"What do you think this city is built on, lad?"

"Rock'n'Roll?"

"NO! Pipes, ducts and conduits."

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"Now this machine here measures the internal bore of the pipes. It's accurate to 20 decimal places, whatever that means. Still it's impressive all these numbers eh?"

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