Deleting the Sea?

[mosfet]

Can anyone explain to me why I can delete sea/ocean/water tiles for a relatively large amount of money, only for them to be covered up in a few seconds?

It's incredibly annoying, especially at the start of a game when you've got very limitted money.

[Ameecher]

Well blowing up water is going to be rather expensive! why do you want to blow it up anyway? If you want to stop it disappearing however just buy the land quickly, or place canals on the edge pieces at that will stop the water spreading onto the already blown up land.

[mosfet]

I can't see why anyone would do it on purpose, it's annoying because it happens accidentally or you go to delete a dock and accidently hit the water next to it, or you go to click the 'x' in the corner of the landscape window only to hit the sea next to it.

I just don't understand why the ability to delete a tile of sea is even part of the game, there's no conceivable situation that you'd have to do this.

[Darkvater]

Of course there is.

If you have walled in a piece of sea with dikes all around and 'destroy' all the water inside the area will not flood back. Now you can go all dutch and build on the sea-level hoping nobody destroys your dikes

[DeletedUser21]

Well about purchasing tiles that are destroyed water tiles, aren't they supposed to flood aswell, but then only the water tile is yours?

[mosfet]

Of course there is.

If you have walled in a piece of sea with dikes all around and 'destroy' all the water inside the area will not flood back. Now you can go all dutch and build on the sea-level hoping nobody destroys your dikes

Aha, a use. This had been puzzling me.

Cheers.