Duck and Cover

Run out of water ~ run out of clean water.

If you have raw oil but need to ennoble it to petrol and then the ennobling plant goes down, you say:

We're running out of petrol.

But according to your logic that is wrong, because there still is a lot of raw oil available that CAN be converted into petrol, so they in fact are NOT running out of petrol?

If one part of the system is down, one part of a serie of complex functions, then the whole system stops - the whole series can not be run without every piece of the puzzle in place.

Don't make things too complicated - your question has already been answered, why chewing through all this again?

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And by the way, I'm really annoying when I know I'm right and someone says I'm not. We weren't talking about opinions, when it comes down to that business I let everyone have their own, but we were handling facts here - it's like saying 2+2=156.

I never said that was wrong in real life, but according to The Game itself, the waterchip controls the water flow.

As someone said before (You possibly?) the game does not always make sense. It is just one part of the game not making sense.

I do believe there is no official stance on it, so therefore you cannot *know* you are right. Not in the games world anyways.

So people can choose to believe that the Fallout world is flawed, and believe common sense.

They can also choose to believe what the game seems to explain, even if it does not make much sense to certain standards.

Hm... I could've sworn this matter was handled in one of the Bibles. Damn.

The player is never told what the water chip really does, all you know is that you need it for the vault's water supplies to be safe.

I always beleived it to be a chip which contains the information for the purification process of water (wether it be recycling the avialable water or removing radiation from it).

In any case it hardly matters.

But it's all about the principle, Red. You should know that ;)

I smahed up my old epson printer a short while ago and the result was:

Lots of bits of cheepo plastic and "A Vault Water-Chip" Or not. But it looks damn like it!

On the subject of how the waterchip works: Take a PC. Remove the Ram. all of it. Does the pc work? NO. Take a vault water PC. Renove the waterchip. does it work? NO.

It seems to me that the Necropolis ghouls didn't need clean water - if you fixed their conventional pump they were happy to let you take the chip. I assume the pump didn't have an inbuilt filtration system, so the only logical assumption would be that the water chip does have something to do with the vault's pumping system.

I am beside you 100 percent because I have thought the same thing also many times :P

Good point, Armisael.