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Author Topic: Lever <-> Support failure?  (Read 571 times)

Brian

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Lever <-> Support failure?
« on: February 15, 2009, 01:05:00 pm »
I had a lever attached to two supports.  Each support held up a pretty large chunk of rock.  I pulled the lever (twice) and one chunk fell down.  The other support stayed up.  I went over to the lever to confirmed it was connected to the support and it was.  I pulled the lever again (twice) and nothing happened.  This time when I checked it, it was no longer connected to the support.  I now have my dwarves reconnecting it.

Is there a problem with pulling a lever twice at a time, esp. when it is hooked to more than one thing?  Or is this some other known bug?

There happened to be a kobold under the rock that didn't fall at the time so I was bummed out about that. I don't suppose that had anything to do with it.

Update: It worked on the next attempt (after reconnecting the two).  I did not double-press the lever this time, though I doubt it mattered for this.  Maybe I'll leave the switches in the active position, and double press from there so it'll end on active.
« Last Edit: February 15, 2009, 01:18:39 pm by Brian »
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Re: Lever <-> Support failure?
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2009, 05:08:30 pm »
Any reason for pulling the lever twice?
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Re: Lever <-> Support failure?
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2009, 05:10:38 pm »
Is it possible to have one lever hooked up to two different objects?
Is it possible to have two different levers hooked up to one object?
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Re: Lever <-> Support failure?
« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2009, 05:56:15 pm »
dont think 2 leavers will link to one object. If you try it the first gets unlinked.
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Re: Lever <-> Support failure?
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2009, 06:01:47 pm »
Quote from: Cultiststeve on February 15, 2009, 05:56:15 pm
dont think 2 leavers will link to one object. If you try it the first gets unlinked.
That's not true.
I have a fort with a number of guard towers along a wall with access by drawbridge. Each drawbridge is linked both from a lever in the tower, and from a master lever in the main part of the fort that can be used to open or close every tower at once.
Works fine.
Note that this example also includes one lever that is linked to several objects.
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Re: Lever <-> Support failure?
« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2009, 07:52:54 pm »
Also, to answer the first question it's possible to link limitless objects to one lever. It's just not always a great idea.
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