Suggestion: [Pollution]

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[Some ideas for the pollution that is planned for IC²2.0 according to a comment by The Allmighty Dragon Lord Modderator on Industrial BlaBla]

Description:
Ablaka stated that pollution was planned for IC² 2.0 and it didn't seem to be a joke to me. I have some ideas for it:

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• Different kinds of Pollution
  There should be three different kinds of pollution: Air, ground and water. Air pollution would be decreased by green plants, especially trees, and certain crops. Ground and water would be cleaned by certain crops. Of course, there should be a cleaning machine I'll explain later. Pollution would decrease their respective crop quality (for example, if your air is polluted heavily, the air quality would be bad, even if all blocks around the crop would be air and it would be on y=256). Examples for polluters would be using fertilizer or opening scrap boxes for water (because it seeps to the ground water), opening scrap boxes and crafting/placing solar panels for ground, crafting/placing solar panels and generators for air and nuclear explosions (both reactor and bomb, however a reactor explosion would be worse) for everything. Air pollution would make the sky and the light coming from it darker and maybe even causing you to be hurt when it's very bad if you are in the sunshine (you know, ozone depletion). But when the air pollution is that bad, green plants in sunshine would clean the air faster because they get more ultraviolet light.
  

  
  

• Cleaning Machine
  The terraformer should be able to reduced pollution. It would have to be encased in the stuff it should clean (except 1 block because of the cable). So dirt/grass/that snowy stuff grass turns into when a snow layer is on top of it for ground, water for water and air for air. It would also need a special TFBP so it knows what to clean. Or maybe the terraformer could be used for this purpose.
  

  
  

• Local pollution
  Pollution should only affect the chunk it was caused in, except air pollution, which should be global. Nuclear pollution should affect all chunks that were damaged by the explosion. Water pollution should spread to neighboring chunks if there are connected bodies of water.
  

  
  

  
  

• Pollution by Solar Panels
  Without something like this, solar spamming would probably become a even bigger problem if/when pollution is added. So, for realism, balance and reducing the number of solar spammers, crafting and/or placing solar panels should pollute the ground and the air.

Recipes:
( =empty TFBP, =sapling, =carbon fiber mesh, =stone shovel)

Air cleaner TFBP



Water cleaner TFBP (The carbon meshes are used as filters) (I know i's way more expensive than the other recipes! The developers don't care anyways.)

Ground cleaner TFBP (It digs the ground away, washes it and replaces it so fast that you can't see it and so it isn't even computed by the game)

Thanks for reading!

PS: Check out this suggestion too! (I would have put this into my signature, but it has too many characters)

Quote from MatLaPatate

If Al really thought about it, let him imagine what it could be. It's something too important to be suggested by someone from the forum. (I think).

More ideas are always good. I just suggested some things to improve the pollution system. The developers are still able to decide what they add, aren't they?

Quote from tiba666

and water miles give pollution to water and earth? or what because that is what we have problem on this server because solar is the last one any one make on this server play on because it seems to rain so much so solar dont get any eu so all ahve make so many of water and wind miles. but i thin is only should make pollution when make the coal dust and not the block then..

I actually didn't hear of water/wind spammers before so I didn't write anything about it. But watermills polluting water and windmills polluting air over time (because of tiny metal particles going off the mill) seem like a good idea.

Quote from Rick

Windgens polluting the air with tiny metal particles? How realistic is that....

1.

Quote from Alblaka

Unrealistic?
This...
is...
MINECRAFT *kicks Physics off the ledge*

2. Do you have a better idea how to explain pollution caused by windmills?
3. It was not my idea to have the mills cause pollution.

Quote from Keserian

What about reactors? Would it be cool to have to deal with nuke waste?

Of course it would be cool! Imagine a giant underground nukehole, filled with tons of nuclear waste, emmitting a glow and polluting ground, water and air because the containers are defective...
But sadly it's denied.
But what if uranium cells would pollute the environment when depleting?

Quote from bbqroast

I personally feel water mills are a far bigger problem than solar panels. Trust me, everyone just builds giant systems for making power from water using RP2/BC2. Lagggy.

But what should water mills pollute? As I said, I didn't read about water spammers before.

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Anyway solar pollution would be pretty silly, just seems like a half hearted fix to a problem...

It's realistic and it should slow solar spammers down a bit. Or even reduce their number!

Quote from bbqroast

Perhaps air pollution should spread? So if one chunk has lots of air pollution it will slowly spread into other chunks around it.

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except air pollution, which should be global