Balancing floods, droughts and automated water gates

The map looks easy because it contains abundant water and metal, yet too much inflow can be as dangerous as too little. High water inundates the obvious cropland, while channels of different depth make the timing and volume of drainage harder to predict. Fixed dams can preserve water for droughts, but later inflows may spill over the banks and across crops. A proposed gate modification would connect a gate to a flow meter and adjust its opening with the water level. That would let the player retain water during droughts while controlling the next inflow. On this map, the middle difficulty can be easier than the nominally easy setting, which floods. Scarce water creates the opposite incentive: players retain as much as possible and risk a flash flood when flow returns. Flood protection, drought reserves and control rules must work together even within Timberborn's simplified hydraulics.