Water Shortage solution does not change water price?

[Szach]

So once you solve water shortage in Sandrock a and have a river flowing through desert why this does not affect water prices and rationing?

[Xanthris]

It does, I can buy 250 water for like 500 Gols from Burgess' store.

But I did ask myself why I have to buy water at all. Can't I just put a pipe to the river and take some of the excess water for myself? It's not like Sandrock doesn't profit from my work. Seems a bit better than everything dumped down into the endless abyss.

[Szach]

Originally posted by Xanthris:

It does, I can buy 250 water for like 500 Gols from Burgess' store.

But I did ask myself why I have to buy water at all. Can't I just put a pipe to the river and take some of the excess water for myself? It's not like Sandrock doesn't profit from my work. Seems a bit better than everything dumped down into the endless abyss.

Just double check that, with -11% market price for me 250 water cost 9400. Bug? Or do I need to push the story further?

[Xanthris]

Originally posted by Szach:

Just double check that, with -11% market price for me 250 water cost 9400. Bug? Or do I need to push the story further?

I think it took a few ingame days and a few quests for the change to happen. Can't say for sure when exactly it happened, but I noticed it somewhere around the time when I had to put up the greenery around town.

[Panfilo]

Originally posted by Xanthris:

It does, I can buy 250 water for like 500 Gols from Burgess' store.

But I did ask myself why I have to buy water at all. Can't I just put a pipe to the river and take some of the excess water for myself? It's not like Sandrock doesn't profit from my work. Seems a bit better than everything dumped down into the endless abyss.

I'm guessing this is done from a conservation angle. Sandrock was initially more lush but suffered desertification due to mismanagement. Chances are people are not going to want to make the same mistakes again.

[SimuLord]

If it's a bug, it's one that crept in between the Sep. 26 update and the full launch.

Because I found water to be cheap as chips after that quest was completed. Took a couple of days—I think the game had to refresh Burgess' merchant inventory, but that's just me speculating—but it happened. Bit late for it, since I've got enough Super Dew Collectors that I was already selling water to the town beforehand.

[nitedreamer66]

I’m still paying $600 gols for 50 and I completed the entire story line a few weeks ago.

[Puchbol]

Originally posted by Panfilo:

I'm guessing this is done from a conservation angle. Sandrock was initially more lush but suffered desertification due to mismanagement. Chances are people are not going to want to make the same mistakes again.

Water is so valuable we're allowing thousands of gallons per day to pour off a cliff just so we can have a rainbow.