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[pluckcitizen]

Is this possible? I want to use traps but I dont want them to be 100% effective or uneffective

[Raphite1]

I don't think it's possible. A rough simulation would be to give them trapavoid and use a field of upright spike traps attached to an automatic repeater, but of course that would also be rather dangerous for any friendlies that path through the area.

[Shurhaian]

You could probably help with a long-delay timer mechanism, rigged to a pressure plate on either end that triggers for your citizens, some distance away from the spikes, on either side; when triggered, it interrupts power to the spike repeater, and after the timer has run its course, it restores power again.

Being able to rig it to a switch for e.g. caravans and migrant waves would be key, too... probably an entirely different cutoff point; a different mechanism in the link between the repeater and its power source. But with a bit of fudging, such a pressure plate could give solitary people enough time to get past a field of repeating spike traps.

[BurnedToast]

or just set up a small number of traps randomly so that enemies will sometimes path over them, but sometimes go around.

Not a perfect solution, but traps are really only overpowered when you stack 100000 of them in a corridor 'o doom anyway so it's good enough for now.

[Shurhaian]

...except that enemies with the TRAPAVOID token do so 100% of the time, which is why spike-traps-on-repeat came up in the first place.

Speaking of those: if the entry to your fortress has a turn in it, you could line the inner side of that curve with repeating spike traps, if it's a 3-wide corridor, and set that line to restricted traffic; just remember to disengage it when a caravan is going through. This will probably do nasty things to the pet population of the fortress as well; this may or may not be desirable.

[Vorago]

I wish Trapavoid would get changed from the inside out to instead be, for example, TRAPAVOID75, for a 75% chance to not trigger a trap.  Any number, 0-100 for a %.  That way it isn't all or nothing.

Think it would be neat