Why didn't they use the GECK and purified the entire area where the water spring is? Providing clean water forever without the need for a purifier that requires power 24 hours a day and can explode in a deadly radiation blast?
Purifying the water source would make it permanently clean, no need to have a pool of water at the end of the river that constantly needs a purifier to keep it clean, it would also make pure water run all the extent of the river, so fauna and flora would also benefit of clean water for miles along the river.
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I also still don't know how they manage to keep the water pool clean, since it is connected to the ocean, and we know the ocean is also quite radiated. I doubt the purifier can clean the ocean too
No, the GECK does not need hook up to work. The GECK is a self sufficient terraforming device. It doesn't need some computer and a water tank to work.
I said water spring. You purify the spring, all the water will be clean. I mean, the river is flowing, it never rains in Fallout 3, so the water has to come from some kind of natural spring, maybe a subterranean water source or something. Purify that source and you get clean water.
What does the Bible has to do with Fallout 3 GECK. Fallout and Fallout 2 GECKs were mostly an assortment of survival guides, seeds, some chemicals to remove radiation from soil, a portable reactor and some codes for the vault replicators.
And that is the problem, they changed teh GECK to be so powerful that it can magically fix an entire area making it non-radioactive, "breathing, living, fertile virgin landscape to begin life anew.". If the GECK now does that, what is the point of using it for a water purifier? You can purify soil, plants, water, air, etc just by using the GECK. Do it at the water source and the river will flow without radiation, afetr a while, due to the river flowing, it will take most or all radioactive particles in the rivers path to the sea, purifying the entire extent of the river.Fallout 3 said:
If the GECK would purify a small patch of land it would be useless. Remember that the GECK is made to allow an entire settlement to be established in the area purified by the GECK. It is also not land that it purifies, it is everything in the are, including water, plants and air.
Restoring the WORLD! Of course it wouldn't restore the whole world, but it was to be used to do it. It even sounds like it can be used several times, instead of being one use only.
If the GECK would purify a small patch of land it would be useless. Remember that the GECK is made to allow an entire settlement to be established in the area purified by the GECK. It is also not land that it purifies, it is everything in the are, including water, plants and air.
This is what Stanislaus Braun says about the GECK:
Restoring the WORLD! Of course it wouldn't restore the whole world, but it was to be used to do it. It even sounds like it can be used several times, instead of being one use only.
It makes sense it would purify a settlement sized area though. If it can be used multiple times, then it is even more stupid to use it only in a water purifier.
This is what James say about it:
Why would he use this miracle device to get a fuse?
Well, I could argue that if Tenpenny Tower had a working water purifier and can supply people for over 200 hundred years, all that would be needed for the CW is for the people in the CW to storm Tenpenny Tower and make the plot of 3 redundant.
To be fair in 1, you could hire water caravans to go the Vault to alleviate the problem somewhat. The notion I can come up to why this is only a temporary solution is that the caravans would not be sufficient enough to keep the Dwellers alive (iirc, their route is rather long and maybe the Overseer intends to seal off the Vault again to limit exposure to the outside).
I guess they wanted to purify the Basin even though it would be easier to create a brand new source of water via Water Chip.
Which is the wiki being stupid as usual. I quoted James where he says that the "magical" GECK was supplied to "several Vaults". So even the game is saying that more than one vault got that special GECK.
James said:
Maybe Tagz got into an argument with someone stating otherwise and wanted to prove them wrong with a quick wiki edit?
Tagaz got kicked out of the wikia admins... Oh sorry, he quit when asked to defend his case when they were voting to kick him out.Maybe Tagz got into an argument with someone stating otherwise and wanted to prove them wrong with a quick wiki edit?
Oh right. I keep referring to both as wikis but next time I'll just use Gamepedia to differentiate The Vault and the Fallout wiki.
That was when Tagaziel "returned". He put an auto re-director so it would convert all links from the Wikia to the Vault.
This is so wrong on so many levels that i don't even know where to begin. Instead i laugh.
