Water working

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Water working

Post by Saquerof »

the title may be a bit large but I'm not good whit titles.

ok so right now the water is more of a nuisance they something else and i know that boats and bridges are already discuss.

my idea is simple, after a couple of researches you could be able to find resources in the water ( an example should be oil, it is currently found in water on our planet :D ). so ok you got resources in water so what now?, well why not building mining platforms? like en oil platform or a miner platform that could extract resources from the bottom of the ocean ? you could use drones or other none implemented methods to bring the resources off the platform to a working area... and we could even add water buildings, defences and such .... also water biters?!? the water front is has limitless has the ground front, just needs adaptation.
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Post by Peter34 »

Swimming Biters would be nice, yes, and Flying Biters too.

As for Oil Platforms in the water, that's a neat idea, especially if they're more of a late-game thing, requiring more research to invent than normal Oil Drillers, and if they cost a lot more resources to build, in exchange for having a much higher yield (easily so much that it should have two Crude Oil outlets that you can connect Sea-Pipes to because one single Pipe wouldn't be able to handle the throughout.

Alternatively, limit it to still one Crude/Pipe outlet, but allow the building of Sea Tanks to store the Crude Oil as a buffer, and then a single line of Sea-Pipe can move it to shore.
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And a small boat of course, to get to the location where you want to build.

Swimming biters would be so cute :o
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PTR2013 wrote:And a small boat of course, to get to the location where you want to build.
Unless you have to use robots to build it.
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immibis wrote:
PTR2013 wrote:And a small boat of course, to get to the location where you want to build.
Unless you have to use robots to build it.
Oh snap! Gameplay twist!

Also, I really like the idea of water not being the annoying resource in the game.
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