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Micro102

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over complicated design
« on: April 13, 2009, 07:50:24 pm »
would it be possible, to flip one lever, that will change a set of bridges, and release water, and then the water would set off a pressure plate once high enough, which would change more bridges, and release more water somewhere else, which would activate more bridges and water, basically going around in circles forming some complex traffic system.
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Agent Fransis

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Re: over complicated design
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2009, 08:28:15 pm »
This sounds like and Echer painting  :)

Shouldn't be too much of a problem to build. Just make sure each pressure plate also drains the water that activated it and refills the chamber that held he water earlier. Or you can use the very same water circulating from chamber to chamber via pumps. But with the latter, if you have the chambers with the pressure plates be larger then a single tile you risk losing a bit of water every time and quickly ending up dry, where as using single tile chambers may cause the bridge shifts to be too rapid.
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Re: over complicated design
« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2009, 08:42:19 pm »
thatas freaking awsome, in theory if someone were to apply the same style to binary you could make a birds eye view electronic sign,


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Re: over complicated design
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2009, 08:44:23 pm »
Over complicated? add "incredibly dangerous" and "high risk of failure" and I'll support this!
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Re: over complicated design
« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2009, 09:35:07 pm »
To a dwarf, nothing is overcomplicated!
Except standing on the right side of building things.
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Micro102

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Re: over complicated design
« Reply #5 on: April 13, 2009, 09:35:31 pm »
do it with obsidian and magma and yeh its all of that and more

whoever does that i will worship
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Re: over complicated design
« Reply #6 on: April 13, 2009, 10:10:23 pm »
It has been done. Somewhere.
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Re: over complicated design
« Reply #7 on: April 13, 2009, 10:19:29 pm »
bull this would be an actual computer program made out of pressure plates....noone would do this without bragging it about it
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« Reply #8 on: April 13, 2009, 10:35:45 pm »
Quote from: Micro102 on April 13, 2009, 10:19:29 pm
bull this would be an actual computer program made out of pressure plates....noone would do this without bragging it about it

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Micro102

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Re: over complicated design
« Reply #9 on: April 13, 2009, 10:40:53 pm »
yeh but noone has actually done it.
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Re: over complicated design
« Reply #10 on: April 13, 2009, 11:16:53 pm »
I think someone did a proof of concept, but it was too slow.
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Re: over complicated design
« Reply #11 on: April 14, 2009, 03:33:52 pm »
Bah, if you really want to do something impressive, make a computer out of floodgates that will allow the dwarves to play Human Fortress where the humans can make a computer to play Dwarf Fortress...
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Re: over complicated design
« Reply #12 on: April 14, 2009, 03:45:49 pm »
Quote from: Micro102 on April 13, 2009, 10:40:53 pm
yeh but noone has actually done it.
yeah, nobody before you thought of combining bridges, pressure plates and water. you should get a patent for that.
there's quite a bit of stuff like that on df map archive. off the top of my head is addition in binary up to 8 bits and a 7-segment display.
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Re: over complicated design
« Reply #13 on: April 14, 2009, 03:49:04 pm »
Quote from: kotekzot on April 14, 2009, 03:45:49 pm
Quote from: Micro102 on April 13, 2009, 10:40:53 pm
yeh but noone has actually done it.
yeah, nobody before you thought of combining bridges, pressure plates and water. you should get a patent for that.
there's quite a bit of stuff like that on df map archive. off the top of my head is addition in binary up to 8 bits and a 7-segment display.

I saw that 7-bit display. It was really nifty, even if it got stuck on the (3, I believe?).
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Re: over complicated design
« Reply #14 on: April 14, 2009, 05:54:02 pm »
Quote from: kotekzot on April 14, 2009, 03:45:49 pm
Quote from: Micro102 on April 13, 2009, 10:40:53 pm
yeh but noone has actually done it.
yeah, nobody before you thought of combining bridges, pressure plates and water. you should get a patent for that.
there's quite a bit of stuff like that on df map archive. off the top of my head is addition in binary up to 8 bits and a 7-segment display.

was that sarcasm? noone has thought of it but there is stuff about it on the wiki?
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