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[BlackSheep_Edge]

Playing on my friend's Steam machine and having some fun with this game. But it brought up something my friend hadn't seen before. The intake water pipe to power your water powered machines, says it outputs at 50% power. Every, and I mean EVERY, pipe addition says that the pressure goes DOWN when you add the piece to your set up (1-2% water pressure reduction on ALL other parts). That means if you have to run 50 pipe pieces to get somewhere, then there is zero pressure at the end of your set up. So. . . In order to stop that from being an issue (and the pressure tank is a problem all on its own) I had the bright idea of using t-pipes and elbow pipes to connect two (2!) water intake pipes. I hook them together and then a red exclamation mark appears over the part closest to the second intake pipe. What gives? There is no tool tip to say what's going on with it. No way to find out WHY the mark appeared, it just showed up.

Oh, and as far as using a water pressure tank to get the 25% boost in pressure, I already am using one somewhere else on the map. It's hard to fill with shards, and since there is no lock down button one wrong click and your shards fly everywhere and you have to reinstall the tank on your line. A way to "cement" pieces in place once placed so an accidental click your your 'E' key doesn't send you flying into 5+ minutes of shard clean up would be awesome.

Nice game, will buy for my own account when I get some money saved up.

[Mikemk]

You can only have one intake on a network.

And you can smelt the shards into a shard ingot.

[oohbetty]

regarding the locking down of placed items, you need to get the construction hammer to do that, its in the starting location shop.

[BlackSheep_Edge]

Originally posted by oohbetty:

regarding the locking down of placed items, you need to get the construction hammer to do that, its in the starting location shop.

Got it thanks.

[BlackSheep_Edge]

Originally posted by Mikemk:

You can only have one intake on a network.

And you can smelt the shards into a shard ingot.

Didn't know that about the shards, that helps thanks.

But why only one inlet if you're going to loose pressure with every part added to the network/system? That makes no sense. Especially when the drills say they work better with higher pressure.

[oohbetty]

Originally posted by stole_it:

Originally posted by Mikemk:

You can only have one intake on a network.

And you can smelt the shards into a shard ingot.

Didn't know that about the shards, that helps thanks.

But why only one inlet if you're going to loose pressure with every part added to the network/system? That makes no sense. Especially when the drills say they work better with higher pressure.

looks like the water never goes below 1 no matter how long the pipe, so once you have at least that 1 water arriving at the site you chose to build you can then worry about pressure, pressure tanks add 25 water each to a max of 100(100%), so 1 water going into 4 pressure tanks has 100(max)water coming out the other end, so best to have the tanks as close to the machines as possible, use a pressure gauge now and then to check pressure and add tanks as required.

best to forget about percentages, just add 25 for tanks and subtract 1 per pipe.

my observations on T-pipes, if water enters a T at 90 it exits at 89 for each, so clever splitting can save a ton of water.

[BlackSheep_Edge]

Originally posted by oohbetty:

Originally posted by stole_it:

Didn't know that about the shards, that helps thanks.

But why only one inlet if you're going to loose pressure with every part added to the network/system? That makes no sense. Especially when the drills say they work better with higher pressure.

looks like the water never goes below 1 no matter how long the pipe, so once you have at least that 1 water arriving at the site you chose to build you can then worry about pressure, pressure tanks add 25 water each to a max of 100(100%), so 1 water going into 4 pressure tanks has 100(max)water coming out the other end, so best to have the tanks as close to the machines as possible, use a pressure gauge now and then to check pressure and add tanks as required.

best to forget about percentages, just add 25 for tanks and subtract 1 per pipe.

my observations on T-pipes, if water enters a T at 90 it exits at 89 for each, so clever splitting can save a ton of water.

Thanks for the advice. That's what I ended up doing. But I still think it's silly you can't combine two intakes to one system.