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[LMeire]

How many times has this happened to you? You're setting up an artificial underground beach for your dwarves, by draining the sea into a tunnel that flows into an open cavern, when suddenly half your population (Including several legendaries and most of your military) are drowning with no hope of surviving. And then you're invaded by a dragon, because sure, why not?

Or how about the opposite problem? You've created an elaborate execution chamber that drowns prisoners using water pumped in from below, all so you can stare at the abstract symbols on your screen and imagine their eyes locked on the floor drain silently begging you to release them while you cackle with unbridled glee. Only the water never comes, so now you've got to drag the elves out of the slightly damp "drowning chamber" where they've been playing "20 Questions" for several weeks (The answer is always "tree" because elves are terrible at "20 Questions".) and take them to the dropping cliff like some kind of savage.


What I propose is an alternative water display, one that informs the player how many levels a pressurized "7" of water will attempt to rise without a ceiling. So in its normal depressurized state it would read "0" with another magnitude added for every level the water will need to rise to once again be depressurized. That way, the difference between the highly dangerous water main from the surface and the normal drinking pipes that you're looking to expand becomes immediately obvious before you kill everyone.

[Maklak]

Some indication of pressurised water would be useful, yes.

[assasin]

I guess you could have it so that everything above a seven is pressurised. So seven would be filled to the brim and 8 would be flowing over slightly if it could, etc.

[King Mir]

I guess you could have it so that everything above a seven is pressurised. So seven would be filled to the brim and 8 would be flowing over slightly if it could, etc.

There are only 2 digit above 7. You could use 8 and 9 for pressurized water, but I don't think that would add clarity.

[Mohreb el Yasim]

I guess you could have it so that everything above a seven is pressurised. So seven would be filled to the brim and 8 would be flowing over slightly if it could, etc.

There are only 2 digit above 7. You could use 8 and 9 for pressurized water, but I don't think that would add clarity.

there are 2 digits above 7 in a decimal system, if displayed in something bigger, hexa for example you can have A,B,C,D,E,F

[assasin]

There are only 2 digit above 7. You could use 8 and 9 for pressurized water, but I don't think that would add clarity.

Hell, I'm blind sometimes.

there are 2 digits above 7 in a decimal system, if displayed in something bigger, hexa for example you can have A,B,C,D,E,F

I'd have to agree that hexa is probably the best solution.  Currently the water seems to use octal anyway (even if the maximum water level is seven, if you're looking at it as a range from no water to full to the brim, a level of zero would count as a digit, even if its not shown on screen)

[Maklak]

Pressurization and level are not the same thing. There can be a flow of pressurized water, keeping it below 7/7, but it is still pressurized (or can be). I would rather have a toggleable view for water pressure (similar to what depot access does) instead of screwing around with water depth.

[Cobbler89]

Perhaps most importantly, how the game models pressure is likely to be improved at some point in the future. As much as it would be nice to have an in-game indicator of pressure as it is currently modeled, Toady has a habit of avoiding code that he knows may or will be overhauled in general (possibly because he doesn't want to waste time, possibly because whatever he did would likely introduce more interdependencies that would have to be updated when the thing they relate gets updated).

It might be most fruitful for now to look into creating such a display with dfhack instead.