Curved pipes?

[Arizal]

Hi,

Watching the videos, I just thought about one ridiculous thing that could be added to the game. Given we already have the ability to create curved road, what about curved pipes to follow them?

 

[McWrisk]

+1 I was also wondering this. Thanks for asking.

 

[Leyenda11]

Totally agree. It's weird to watch quill18 designing the pipes over the curved road. I think it is not the purpose of this system because you dont need to follow the roads to supply water, though.

 

[Amiths]

From the videos i didnt see any curve tool for pipes like i saw for roads so my guess is that you can only build straight. It would be awesome if the pipes had to follow streets like in real life. xD

 

[magitsu]

Curved pipes in Hammerfe... Cities Skylines? CURVED. PIPES.

Yes please. They are good for the overall aesthetics.

Next thing we know they have those megaintersection like junctions available to virtual pipers and we have a whole plumbing simulator going on under the C:S wraps

 

[Lord_P]

Curved pipes in Hammerfe... Cities Skylines? CURVED. PIPES.

Hammerfell, what? I didn't know Tamriel had such advanced sanitation systems!

 

[FourWinds]

But these are the big pipes, and big pipes serving whole neighbourhoods are straight. I thought that the blue 'area of influence' was where all the curved pipes that you couldn't see were. If there were curved pipes I might use them, but I see no need for them.

 

[Hannodb]

I must say, I believe this is excluded because - like me - this just never occurred to them, since they are hidden most of the time.

Dammit. Why did you have to go and make me want something that is not in the game? If you didn't bring it up, I would never even have thought about it.

 

[ChaplainDMK]

Dont think water pipes are ever build curved. They have pre made sections that are straight, and then various angled bits. But you don't have like a slightly curving water pipe.

 

[Anttonilla]

I noticed the same thing and I thought that I'm weird But yeah, it's not so important, but probably not so hard to add.

 

[Fujito]

Dont think water pipes are ever build curved. They have pre made sections that are straight, and then various angled bits. But you don't have like a slightly curving water pipe.

I'm makeing pipes in real life in one of the biggest foundries in poland and i can tell you that theres no curved pipes XD And if ull send a curve pipe to buyer he will send you it back

 

[sc4mp]

Straight pipes in short lengths is what you require under curved roads. This is achievable in game, you just need a few more clicks than the You Tubers have done.

 

[CalPolyFan]

You have to focus on priorities.. To me, this is one of the least important/non important things to focus on for the devs.

No offense OP, just don't see "pipe view" very often in the game, not worth the effort.

Also, like has been said before, large sewer pipes are straight- they do that for transport reasons and simplicity mostly.

 

[Arizal]

For the sake of realism and of course because there are limited ressources, I perfectly understand why pipes are straight. Thank for the answers!

 

[Kane Hart]

Might be more performance / calculation reasons for them. If they keep it straight a little less math that is created for it.
That being said can't you water a neighborhood from one side and it all works? I thought water connected in sort of a area effect but the houses you have in a area also give water once connected to the system? I might be wrong but I swore I saw this at first. Was like slight hybrid.

 

[DomoTheRussian]

The pipes are the thing that it's more like we will see them only once when we build then in order to provide people with water. I don't see any reason to make pipes curved or to behave more realisticly (Like build a pipe to each house) simply because we don't see them or look at them very often.
You sometime ask too much for no good reason

 

[Ingtar]

The only water main image that I could find with a curve to it was copyrighted. I believe that you can have a very gradual curve to this sort of pipe, but that a more significant curve becomes expensive. The angled pipes have to be more reinforced to take the pressure correctly. A curved pipe would likely require the whole thing to be reinforced. The normal method seems to be using oblique angles to mimic a curve, kind of like how Quill18 was forced to do it.

 

[medopu]

In sc4 i usually create water pipes across the whole map, so i don't have to bother with the water pipes again. I'll see if this is possible in C:SL too, would save a lot of time/frustration

 

[magitsu]

It is. It's just too expensive to do it at the start or you won't have a cushion of money to make it self-substaining. Quill or Arumba did it in their Pdxcon video.

 

[Lord_P]

It is. It's just too expensive to do it at the start or you won't have a cushion of money to make it self-substaining. Quill or Arumba did it in their Pdxcon video.

It was Arumba and he almost bankrupted (sp?) his city.