But with hexagons, circles will overlap in straight line, there will be empty parts at edges of hexagonal grid. Usually land is some kind of rectangle. With circles not overlapping in straight line you can also convert your field from circles to squares and from squares to circles.
Makes sense. You’d need to do half-circles on the edges to tile rectangular land in hexagons, and that would mean more machines and pipes.
Hexagons would only make sense if you needed multiple, equal-sized irrigators, but the more I think about it, there probably isn’t a size limit on these machines. They are built in modular sections, with each section driving itself relative to its neighbors. If they need a larger area covered, they’d build a longer irrigator.
But with hexagons, circles will overlap in straight line, there will be empty parts at edges of hexagonal grid. Usually land is some kind of rectangle. With circles not overlapping in straight line you can also convert your field from circles to squares and from squares to circles.
Makes sense. You’d need to do half-circles on the edges to tile rectangular land in hexagons, and that would mean more machines and pipes.
Hexagons would only make sense if you needed multiple, equal-sized irrigators, but the more I think about it, there probably isn’t a size limit on these machines. They are built in modular sections, with each section driving itself relative to its neighbors. If they need a larger area covered, they’d build a longer irrigator.