Why groundwater is limited?

[HubertNNN]

IRL ground water is infinite, it might take time for wells to recover but due to size of aquifers, collecting rain water etc, generally all ground water supplies are infinite.

Then why is groundwater finite in the game?
Its not realistic. I get that you might want to make challenge and force people to switch to other water sources, but doing it in such unrealistic way seems bad.

[BumpInTheNight]

In a game where a lone commercial ship captain and its crew land on a vast island of somehow still untapped resources to rebuild society after its collapse. Mastering metallurgy, vehicle manufacturing and many other feats of modern engineering virtually within days of their arrival. Establishing oil refinery infrastructure in mere weeks after learning about it from what be a vast catalog of offline youtube howto videos. Encountering pirates that never actually give chase to follow them home to loot their little industrialist paradise. People willing to live in shipping containers throughout all of this while 'the captain' resides in a presidential mansion but not a single guard tower in site or any signs of social controls in place.

This, the assumption they are also already overtaxing their aquifers on this perfect little island of resources, this is the part that's gone to far for you? ;)

[RawCode]

groundwater in game do regenerate, it ever state this in tooltip.

[薄荷哈雅貼]

Water in COI is infinite resources

But if you set start set up for dry weather which
making life really hard

Raining do resupply water pool
But full operating about 5 pump with normal still can slow dry it out

[AFx-TT-Rampage]

Originally posted by HubertNNN:

IRL ground water is infinite, it might take time for wells to recover but due to size of aquifers, collecting rain water etc, generally all ground water supplies are infinite.

Then why is groundwater finite in the game?
Its not realistic. I get that you might want to make challenge and force people to switch to other water sources, but doing it in such unrealistic way seems bad.

Pretty sure IRL ground water can dry up. Its the question of how fast you used the water vs the time it takes for it to be replenish from rain etc. The game ground water do replenish when it rains. Best thing to do is set up some distillers which use coal and sea water. Producing brine, water and fumes.

[薄荷哈雅貼]

But coal is finite too
My energy rely on oil or coal still a bit problem for long time Surviving

I guess biofuel solve everything?

[dunbal]

Groundwater IS infinite. Every time it rains it replenishes. Kind of like real groundwater. The problem is you may be sucking it out much faster than nature is putting it back in, which also models real life...

[BigDongle]

Originally posted by 薄荷哈雅貼:

But coal is finite too
My energy rely on oil or coal still a bit problem for long time Surviving

I guess biofuel solve everything?

Later you will explore and find islands that you can send construction resources to build up coal and sulfur mines, sawmills and oilrigs. so there is a source of those resources after you deplete your island.

Originally posted by HubertNNN:

IRL ground water is infinite, it might take time for wells to recover but due to size of aquifers, collecting rain water etc, generally all ground water supplies are infinite.

Ground water is anything but infinite. Depending where you live that is an understandably ignorant statement to make but it's not accurate in general.

[jhughes]

Ground water is far from infinite. Example:

https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/groundwater-decline-and-depletion

[jfoytek]

Originally posted by BigDongle:

Originally posted by 薄荷哈雅貼:

But coal is finite too
My energy rely on oil or coal still a bit problem for long time Surviving

I guess biofuel solve everything?

Later you will explore and find islands that you can send construction resources to build up coal and sulfur mines, sawmills and oilrigs. so there is a source of those resources after you deplete your island.

Originally posted by HubertNNN:

IRL ground water is infinite, it might take time for wells to recover but due to size of aquifers, collecting rain water etc, generally all ground water supplies are infinite.

Ground water is anything but infinite. Depending where you live that is an understandably ignorant statement to make but it's not accurate in general.

Lets leave the politics of the statement out of this... Most of us understand his point that ground water is in MOST places an infinite resource that does in fact replenish.

However at the same time I know many people who have needed to adjust their wells as the top aquifer ran dry so they needed to go deeper its not that uncommon of a situation.

With that being said the game certainly has a water model that runs out far faster then in real life and I am quite sure its for game mechanic purposes, its one of those resources you need to manage in game, personally I prefer rainwater catchment in this game with several holding tanks to using wells myself... Its not like space is finite lol....

[Overeagerdragon]

Originally posted by jfoytek:

Originally posted by BigDongle:

Later you will explore and find islands that you can send construction resources to build up coal and sulfur mines, sawmills and oilrigs. so there is a source of those resources after you deplete your island.





Ground water is anything but infinite. Depending where you live that is an understandably ignorant statement to make but it's not accurate in general.

Lets leave the politics of the statement out of this... Most of us understand his point that ground water is in MOST places an infinite resource that does in fact replenish.

However at the same time I know many people who have needed to adjust their wells as the top aquifer ran dry so they needed to go deeper its not that uncommon of a situation.

With that being said the game certainly has a water model that runs out far faster then in real life and I am quite sure its for game mechanic purposes, its one of those resources you need to manage in game, personally I prefer rainwater catchment in this game with several holding tanks to using wells myself... Its not like space is finite lol....

I use seawalter humidifiers as I need the salt anyways...

[jhughes]

Originally posted by jfoytek:

Originally posted by BigDongle:

Later you will explore and find islands that you can send construction resources to build up coal and sulfur mines, sawmills and oilrigs. so there is a source of those resources after you deplete your island.





Ground water is anything but infinite. Depending where you live that is an understandably ignorant statement to make but it's not accurate in general.

Lets leave the politics of the statement out of this... Most of us understand his point that ground water is in MOST places an infinite resource that does in fact replenish.

However at the same time I know many people who have needed to adjust their wells as the top aquifer ran dry so they needed to go deeper its not that uncommon of a situation.

With that being said the game certainly has a water model that runs out far faster then in real life and I am quite sure its for game mechanic purposes, its one of those resources you need to manage in game, personally I prefer rainwater catchment in this game with several holding tanks to using wells myself... Its not like space is finite lol....

That has nothing to do with politics .. those areas (I live in one) have lowering water levels. If you pump out more water than comes in, water level goes down. It is physics, not politics. In fact, I don't know a political party that is in favor of depleting all the water in an area.

[Synical]

The game seems to be set after an unspecified environmental disaster (polar ice caps melting, maybe?) and you will notice that the rainfall becomes less and less as you go on. It's very possible to drain the groundwater as the world seems to move to some kind of perma-drought.

[RawCode]

there is nothing "infinite" on earth.

if you open wiki or history books, you will notice, that humanity managed to deplete countless rivers, lakes and ever few seas.

if you attach industrial grade pump to well, you will deplete local water supply in few days anywhere in the world.

[jhughes]

Originally posted by Synical:

The game seems to be set after an unspecified environmental disaster (polar ice caps melting, maybe?) and you will notice that the rainfall becomes less and less as you go on. It's very possible to drain the groundwater as the world seems to move to some kind of perma-drought.

So it's a good thing we can research Desalination in 'research lab II' :)

[Lyam]

Originally posted by HubertNNN:

IRL ground water is infinite,