• Live Your Lives@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 years ago

    A few things to remember to add:

    1. False positives
    2. Abandoned utilities
    3. Utility maps and GPS coords that were never made, were never updated, or are flat out wrong
    4. Contractors who will make every excuse and lie about what happened
    5. Random people asking if your digging for gold and worried if you’re going to tear up their lawn
    • IonAddis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, reading about these things are what made me realize how layered the game could be.

      You could have a lying contractor who kicked dirt over your marks, and whether you would get the blame or not would depend on screenshots you took of your work beforehand XD

      From a technical perspective, I bet programming abandoned utilities and how those impact detection would be a challenge for the programmers interested in the “simulation” part. I bet there’s some math going on there!