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Onlyhestands

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Weird Map
« on: April 17, 2009, 05:56:15 pm »
While looking for a good canyon I noticed that the map had 3 of the symbols for the begining of a brook, so I just had to embark.

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Re: Weird Map
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2009, 06:11:12 pm »
What's weird about it?
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Re: Weird Map
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2009, 06:24:43 pm »
I've never seen water features that close without being connected. That is weird.
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Re: Weird Map
« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2009, 06:27:19 pm »
I've never seen a triple delta, in which two of them connect!
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Re: Weird Map
« Reply #4 on: April 17, 2009, 06:29:06 pm »
Wow, if only it had magma, and an underground river.
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Re: Weird Map
« Reply #5 on: April 17, 2009, 07:24:37 pm »
You know, it's in deltas that civilizations form.  Like the Tigris and Euphretes.
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Re: Weird Map
« Reply #6 on: April 17, 2009, 08:11:42 pm »
Quote from: Kohou on April 17, 2009, 07:24:37 pm
You know, it's in deltas that civilizations form.  Like the Tigris and Euphretes.
That was a crescent.  You're thinking of the Nile.
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Re: Weird Map
« Reply #7 on: April 17, 2009, 08:13:59 pm »
Quote from: LegoLord on April 17, 2009, 08:11:42 pm
Quote from: Kohou on April 17, 2009, 07:24:37 pm
You know, it's in deltas that civilizations form.  Like the Tigris and Euphretes.
That was a crescent.  You're thinking of the Nile.
Actually, he is technically true. There are no geologic features named crescents, just that region named that because of the shape of the fertile area.
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Re: Weird Map
« Reply #8 on: April 17, 2009, 08:19:35 pm »
Except those aren't deltas. Technically they'd be springs. Deltas are where a river spreads out on a big flat plain and forms swampy stuff. Lots of floods, silt getting washed down from upstream, great for farming.
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Re: Weird Map
« Reply #9 on: April 17, 2009, 10:08:42 pm »
Deltas usually end in oceans and seas if my limited non dwarven knowledge serves me right
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Re: Weird Map
« Reply #10 on: April 17, 2009, 10:27:26 pm »
A delta is the result of sediment falling out of a river as that river joins a larger body of water.  They tend to be very fertile areas.

It's also the 4th letter in the Greek alphabet, and the mathematical/scientific symbol representing the distance of a change in value.
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Re: Weird Map
« Reply #11 on: April 17, 2009, 10:39:55 pm »
The beginnings of streams in this are closer to alluvial fans than deltas.
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Re: Weird Map
« Reply #12 on: April 17, 2009, 11:02:42 pm »
If you undermine the very ends of the urm... bizzaro-delta, you can forever stop that brook from producing water/ flowing. the floor tile the water is generated from will be marked "river source" and if you build a ramp under it the brook will dry up.

Not really useful for anything, but it can be done.
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Re: Weird Map
« Reply #13 on: April 17, 2009, 11:16:26 pm »
Meh.

I embarked on a map where two major rivers crossed (that is, there were 4 rivers meeting in a + shape).  I embarked on a 2x2 map.

There was barely enough space for the wagon as the entire map was hollow: a giant chasm some 15 levels deep, at the bottom of which there was water (one river, right near the wagon did have a portion at wagon-level: the water cascaded off into the depths).
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Re: Weird Map
« Reply #14 on: April 18, 2009, 12:16:49 am »
Quote from: Draco18s on April 17, 2009, 11:16:26 pm
Meh.

I embarked on a map where two major rivers crossed (that is, there were 4 rivers meeting in a + shape).  I embarked on a 2x2 map.

There was barely enough space for the wagon as the entire map was hollow: a giant chasm some 15 levels deep, at the bottom of which there was water (one river, right near the wagon did have a portion at wagon-level: the water cascaded off into the depths).

I did an embark like that, only it was 3x3 with some weird junction of two major rivers, a brook, and a small river.

Unfortunately, deleted it due to FPS
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