Hand Cranked Pumps

[lurkinglurker]

Hi Klei Team!,

Here's my first suggestion ever, hope I'm doing this correctly:

I would like to suggest adding hand-cranked pumps into the early game, for both water and air. These pumps would be:

- easy to make with basic minerals. Sandstone pumps?

- large. Maybe 8 tiles large: 3x2 for the crank, and a little 1x1 for the intake below/above it (for water/air respectively).

- labor intensive, as with every other early tech.

- outputs only half that of an electric pump, aka not as effective, as with every other early tech.

These handcranked pumps would occupy the same spots where the current pumps are in the research tree, with the current electric pumps being bumped into latter-game tech (maybe tier 2, 3 tech?).

 

So yeah. Thanks for making this great game utter time killer and oh god look at the time where did it go?!??

Cheers.