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[Sevrun]

I'm trying to use pressure plates as a kind of automated flow control for letting water into a cistern, but I can't seem to get them to initially activate to open the floodgates.  and water pressure on the plate doesn't seem to close the gates if I use a lever to open the gates.  So in short... help?? 

[Ivefan]

Pressure plates is a headache.
Plate in cister = 0-6, water, resets. But in my experience, which is feeble, it seemed that plated with 0 do not trigger unless status is changes, so tell your dwarves to pool some water into the cistern manualy and the lever seems to override plates.

[TettyNullus]

Yep, it's slightly buggy at 0 level. Gotta have water on it first before it'll trigger at all

[Puck]

Its "buggy" anyway. Sooner or later the setup will break (unless the mechanics have changed) basically the PP can change states a lot faster than the floodgate, sooner or later things are out of synch and then you've got wet beards all over the place.

i heard (but haven't tested it yet) doors react with less delay, making the whole idea a lot more feasible. I bet my nobles that it still will get desynched sooner or later and stop working as it should.

Shame, really, lots of cool stuff to be built with water triggered PP's and floodgates.