Rivers

[Torkess_theCommie]

I think there should be rivers that lead out of lakes into oceans, so that if you build a boat in a lake, you don't have to remain only in the lake.

[Leo Luncid]

*shrugs* Sure. It makes things more real. I mean, how did that lake get in the middle of land?

[Torkess_theCommie]

true true,

[Just A Bill]

I think I heard at one point that there are rivers, we just can't see them. Not sure if I am remembering that right...

[formerly known as hf]

I've heard that too, but I think I remember that they're just not properly implemented yet.

[Hellzon]

On a tangent, digging channels would be cool. Would allow (lake-going, I suppose) boats to travel between cities on land.

[Torkess_theCommie]

well not channels, how bout canals?

[Sho]

Two canal suggestions:

http://www.cantr.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6236

http://www.cantr.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6186

A thread about the "invisible rivers":

http://www.cantr.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6703

As I said, I think the easiest way to implement canals would be to make them upgrades to roads - but that requires programming changes to roads.

[wichita]

I would really like to see rivers and canals as well, but that will be in ProgD's hands.

[Phalynx]

If we dig canals can we ban in advance cliched mock Irish Navvies to dig them??

[tiddy ogg]

1560.1 You say: Bejaysus, and here's Mick and me wantin' sumethin' to do, seein' as how we cudn't get that forestry job, 'cos they wanted tree fellers and there was jus' the two of us.

[Surly]

If we have 2 exit options, one to walk down a road and one to sail down a road, this could be easily implemented using the vehicle connections table. Of course, its that initial change that would be difficult Once that was done though, it would not be hard to implement canal upgrades that allow bigger ships to pass down them, as with roads.

Another (in my view unreasonable) method is to allow an upgrade beyond expressway > "Expressway and small canal" or somesuch, that would allow boats to "drive" down the road, like cars do.

However, I agree with what Chris said in the other thread... canals should be cripplingly expensive.

[Solfius]

Two canal suggestions:

http://www.cantr.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6236

http://www.cantr.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6186

A thread about the "invisible rivers":

http://www.cantr.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6703

As I said, I think the easiest way to implement canals would be to make them upgrades to roads - but that requires programming changes to roads.

What would we do without you, Sho?

You're always there for us when we need to be reminded of past threads <3

[Kreed]

I've found that I can get to land locked lakes from the sea just by getting close enough to dock to the towns on the lake, so there must be a river there.

[Frits]

Wow that's really cunning! But it's a bug.