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This may seem obvious, but a pipe to ground costs the same as a normal pipe (In fact, it's crafted from a normal pipe).

This means it's cheaper to use them instead of normal pipes everywhere, since a pair of pipes-to-ground will transfer water about four times as far as two pipes.

Pipes-to-ground should cost more than the equivalent number of normal pipes, like the belts-to-ground cost more than the equivalent number of belts.

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They should be produced and placeable only in pairs. I mean in fact it makes no sense to place one in and one out independent. If there is no out, there should be no in and the way around.
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That's hardly a problem, all that can happen is that you end up with one left over.

The problem is they're cheaper than normal pipes. Although I see in 0.8 they're slightly more expensive than in 0.7.

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^ costs 4 iron plates

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^ costs 6 iron plates over the same distance

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The upper pipes have windows. Windows are important. And they reworked the whole pipe system for 0.9; maybe they changed also that.
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maybe placing them should also cost normal pipes? (underground part)

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That would be inconsistent with the way underground conveyors work.

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immibis wrote:That would be inconsistent with the way underground conveyors work.
Underground conveyor belts should also work the same way.

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