Qualanqui
Have you tried turning off chromatic abberation, motion blur, film grain and all that other extraneous fluff?
I have a 3060 and Control is one of my favourite games so I’ve put a lot of time into it with DLSS on but haven’t noticed what you’re describing.
I tend to fiddle with my settings until it looks and handles well but the aforementioned settings are always turned off first thing.
Being the party of fiscal responsibility they should levy a capital gains tax and a land value tax, a pair of low hanging fruit that would net a good chunk of revenue as well as cooling the housing market.
But of course they’re never going to do that, they’ll off load the costs of their tax cuts on the poors by hiking GST by at least 2.5%.
If you have the system always running most of the cartage back to the top could be handled by the siphoning effect, like draining a washing machine or siphoning patrol.
You’d need energy to get it started but after that it should keep siphoning as long as there’s liquid to siphon.
Ancient Minoan would be the place, chilling on the sunny island of Crete in the reasonably calm Mediterranean sea with abundances of food and water as well as trade goods from all over the Mediterranean. And they weren’t crazed militarists like most of the other Greek tribes, so don’t have to worry too much about war either.