SimCity 2000 water towers
Young Sul
Has anyone had any luck with the water functions in SimCity 2000?
I can't get the water tower to store water -- is there some trick in
placement? Also, sometimes placing pipe results in strange connections...
anybody else notice this?
-y
David P. Brockington
>Hi!
Yes. You have to be very careful when placing pipes on sloped
land. I have it down now, but initially it was rather frustrating.
I also have about 15 water towers that work. The key is that you
need considerable excess production before the towers will fill up --
and, obviously, they have to be piped in to the rest of your water net.
Water towers are quite nice in preventing seasonal problems with your water
supply, but do not always prevent the drastic effects of a major drought.
Water towers hold 40,000 gallons, which is less than one water pump located
on fresh water ought to produce in a month. Considering all the production
my system presently has, my towers hold about a week's worth of water.
David P. Brockington
bron...@u.washington.edu
paul newman
better than the automatic ones?
they seem thicker, even when you put one where a pipe already is due to
a building there...
and what types of zones don't need water?
David P. Brockington
>Anyone have any ideas on whether the pipes manually placed are any
>better than the automatic ones?
Different, and certainly necessary. The little pipes that
automatically spring up is "local" plumbing that the sims install themselves.
The best way to conceptualize it is by considering this plumbing private,
structure specific plumbing, and the manual pipes are the water mains, which
are built by the municipal water authority. Without you laying the big pipe,
the little pipes will never fill up with water, and the zones will never
have running water.
>they seem thicker, even when you put one where a pipe already is due to
>a building there...
That's because you can run a main through existing buildings, which
is necessary for larger zones.
>and what types of zones don't need water?
Well, I once had an array of wind power that I didn't water up,
but they were way up on top of a hill and I didn't want to deal with
placing pipe on rugged slopes. When housing encroached near the plants,
however, I was forced to lay the pipe.
This is an utterly fantastic game, btw.
David P. Brockington
bron...@u.washington.edu
paul newman
on top of existing pipes benefits you at all. I know that you need to
place them wherever pipes haven't already popped up, such as across
roads, etc...
David P. Brockington
Yes. If you have a net of local plumbing large enough, simply
connecting a main to it won't fill up the entire net. You do need to
send mains through the local plumbing net.
I have noticed that disasters, such as an earthquake, don't affect
the water mains at all. Bummer. They really ought to.
David P. Brockington
bron...@u.washington.edu
Mark H. Zollinhofer
problem like someone else who posted here, that it won't store
up any water. What am I doing wrong?
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Chuck Shotton
mh...@curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU (Mark H. Zollinhofer) wrote:
> You never said anything about the water towers. I have a
> problem like someone else who posted here, that it won't store
> up any water. What am I doing wrong?
Not enough water pressure. Add enough extra pumping stations to provide
excess capacity and the excess will be stored in the towers.
Breier Scheetz
mh...@curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU (Mark H. Zollinhofer) wrote:
>
> problem like someone else who posted here, that it won't store
> up any water. What am I doing wrong?
>
Make a water tower, and hook up a pipeline to it. Once you connect the
water, any excess water you have should go into the tower, up to 40,000
gallons each. Click on the tower for the info on it after it's hooked up.
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