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[40d6] Fluid Pressure Is Not Diagonal
« on: January 30, 2009, 12:51:25 pm »
Subtle but biggie; I dug some 1-tile diagonal magma shafts and tried to pump magma through them, but they filled very, very slowly. Most telling of this problem was that though I had 4 pumps trying to pressurize the closed tunnel, I still had 6es floating around.

I then used some channeling to turn the diagonal tunnels into sawtooth tunnels and reactivated the pumps.

7777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777!

It looked like a casino owner's nightmare!

This could be used to players advantage, as it strips all pressure from a fluid, so one could have an inlet into an underground pool coming from a water source above and have it enter the pool from a diagonal entrance, without risking overflow. Still, I suspect this is an oversight.
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Re: [40d6] Fluid Pressure Is Not Diagonal
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2009, 05:23:55 pm »
Perhaps it is because fluid pressure is not transferred diagonally.
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Re: [40d6] Fluid Pressure Is Not Diagonal
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2009, 07:52:39 am »
^^^ Copied from that thread to save time for readers of this one:

Req461, FLOWS AND DIRECTIONAL CALCULATIONS, (Future): Certain flow calculations still only run in 4 directions.
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