Great map, the water setup adds a lot (won't spoil all its consequences) and makes the gameplay fun and unlike any other map I've played before. It's not among the easiest maps, but don't get discouraged by the description, it very much can be done on hard even with extra obstacles, I like to play with only one science building, only the starting district, no fluid dump and no changing the terrain, and the map was still quite doable.

@bxt: You're welcome, glad you like it!

Amazing map, thank you! I was looking for a challenge and this is probably the best challenging map I've done so far.

@nice_st1100: Thank you, good to hear! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Played it on hard: Stored a bunch of water, started farming.... the usual. Nice map, good challenge, and I like the smaller footprint. Made a bunch of pools, achieved critical mass of easy food, and guaranteed water, shunted the "bad tides" down and out. Good fun terraforming and extending land out over the abyss. I locked off the badwater in the middle of the map early, and then later during a drought I capped it.

@Aezescher: Thank you! Good to see that there are strategies available!

I finished the map. It was fun and unusual. My entire starting area is now a giant water tank.

@Aezecher I was stuck on 35 beavers for like 7 or 8 cycles until I got sluices and ziplines and cleared the top area of badtides. I was limited by food but it's mostly because I didn't expand enough I think.

Challenge accepted! I made it on hard too. I had to load a previous autosave a few times to recover from wrong moves and careless mistakes, and I had to sacrifice half my beavers once or two.
I used the corner of the map where there is the small stream that you can easily shunt at the top during badtides. So it makes a nice place to keep clear water for few days and cultivate. In addition, it's a way to access the 'up there'!
I didn't use the water dump, but I'm glad to see there are different ways to make it through this map!
Nice work on this map ;-)
@Flap : how much is 'not too many', I'm curious about the ideal size of your colony?

@Flap: Thank you, that's great to hear!

Great map.

I'm currently playing it on hard. I rushed the water dump tech and moved to the center island. Crops and trees survive even 15 days badtides, you just need enough water storage and not too many beavers.