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Keishin

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[40a] Unrecovered mechanisms
« on: August 18, 2008, 08:46:01 pm »

So in all my matchless wisdom, I didn't realize that you could control multiple devices from a single lever.  I have three bridges that are a part of the entrance gauntlet to my fort, two of which are shortcuts when let down.  I had formerly operated both of those with their own levers.  I deconstructed one lever, which worked fine... however the mechanism in the bridge was left there (and no TSK assigned to it, either... though I didn't check jobs).  I linked the bridge up with the OTHER lever that's already connected to another bridge, me derfs got a couple of mechanisms and installed them as normal.  So now this bridge has two mechanisms.

It's not exactly game-breaking, and I figure there's a good chance that it's a known "feature," but I didn't see it with searching and figured better safe than sorry.
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Re: [40a] Unrecovered mechanisms
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2008, 09:01:16 pm »

If you connect a lever to something and deconstruct the lever, the connecting mechanism will stay in the something. This is a known annoyance and I have no idea whether Toady plans to fix this or not.
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Re: [40a] Unrecovered mechanisms
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2008, 09:07:53 pm »

The only way to get rid of it is to deconstruct the bridge.  Then rebuild it.
at worse, you lost one mechanism.  Unless its a bauxite mechanism, you shouldn't worry about it.
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Re: [40a] Unrecovered mechanisms
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2008, 09:13:03 pm »

Yeah, no, I figured that was probably the case on both counts.  Just wanted to report it to be surely sure.  Not gonna lose any sleep over a base quality Alunite mechanism, or even bother deconstructing the bridge to find out.
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