Make water wells great again

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Make water wells great again

Postby WaterMage » Wed Aug 20, 2025 7:48 pm

Water well quality system now looks dumb and tedious for common player. I suggest this:
make base q of water in well = 10. Each mine level within village claim should give +10 water q.
so:
- well within village claim with no mine = 10q water
- well within village claim with 1 lvl mine = 20q water
- well within village claim with 2 lvl mine = 30q water
- well within village claim with 3 lvl mine = 40q water
- well within village claim with 4 lvl mine = 50q water
- well within village claim with 5 lvl mine = 60q water
- well within village claim with 6 lvl mine = 70q water
- well within village claim with 7 lvl mine = 80q water
- well within village claim with 8 lvl mine = 90q water
- well within village claim with 9 lvl mine = 100q water
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Re: Make water wells great again

Postby animary » Sat Aug 23, 2025 3:19 am

This will just further imbalance the game by making the strong players stronger while being of no benefit to lesser players.

And would you have to build a well on the lowest level of your mine to get that water or would it translate to any well on your claim?
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Re: Make water wells great again

Postby losexd » Sat Aug 23, 2025 3:42 am

Just make dig deeper cost a bit less or half of the current xp, also could lower the multiplier(instead of always costs 2x every time you dig it could be something less, 1.5x/1.3x idk), it will make highql water more accessible.
At least in a range of q80-100... before it starts to cost a insane amount of exp again.

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Re: Make water wells great again

Postby linkfanpc » Sat Aug 23, 2025 4:38 am

Digging deeper could have a mechanic like mine pyres and falling stars where once someone has reached peak quality it's easier for everyone else to catch up albeit at lower than actual peak (IE if water quality has reached q200 somewhere in the world dig deeper only requires 1k exp per dig up to q100 or so and then starts rising closer to the cost of the peak's)
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Re: Make water wells great again

Postby Dawidio123 » Sat Aug 23, 2025 1:21 pm

losexd wrote:Just make dig deeper cost a bit less or half of the current xp, also could lower the multiplier(instead of always costs 2x every time you dig it could be something less, 1.5x/1.3x idk), it will make highql water more accessible.
At least in a range of q80-100... before it starts to cost a insane amount of exp again.

water quality shouldn't be tied to either autistic questing or having a realm with a script to take out xp at optimal intervals in the first place. just my few cents.
Also remove the rng from digging wells xd
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Re: Make water wells great again

Postby Fostik » Sun Aug 24, 2025 6:06 pm

But what’s the real intent of having higher quality water? I mean fractions having best wells making their stuff ~5 quality better than others is kind of irritating, but regular hermits all have ~50q at cap, what’s wrong with that?
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Re: Make water wells great again

Postby SnuggleSnail » Sun Aug 24, 2025 7:17 pm

Fostik wrote:I mean fractions having best wells making their stuff ~5 quality better than others is kind of irritating


I don't think private wells are really a thing. If they are, I can't imagine them being more than 20 quality higher than public wells without exploits.

Wells kindof seem like the gold standard "community project" in haven. The hermits seem to love it, and there's strong community building from it, but it doesn't rly have a big impact on the meta.

That said, if I just quested for 2 weeks straight to dig a well and got +1 quality I'd be snail mailing terroristic threats to jorb's house
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Re: Make water wells great again

Postby dafels » Sun Aug 24, 2025 9:25 pm

Just get a realm, get almost infinite exp by using "From the Public Coffer" and there you go, have a nice personal well smh. Not a issue
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Re: Make water wells great again

Postby jock » Mon Aug 25, 2025 3:19 am

Honestly, well should just be +5ql every time globally to all wells. And double the global amount, then the spot you make a well matters, and nobody gets an advantage or exploits.
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