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Author Topic: Wagon on Bridge on Bridge Action  (Read 2405 times)

Elvang

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Wagon on Bridge on Bridge Action
« on: April 17, 2009, 11:21:27 am »
So... You cannot retract a bridge that has a wagon/megabeast/demon on it correct? And a retractable bridge can be built with another bridge as its sole means of support correct? If that information is true then what would happen if I built something like this...
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Where 1 are retractable bridges linked to a lever, 2 is a retractable bridge using 1 as a support, and W is the wagon passing over 2.

... and I pull the lever linked to the 1 bridges, would the 2 bridge collapse along with the wagon?
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Re: Wagon on Bridge on Bridge Action
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2009, 11:23:35 am »
Only one way to find out  ;)
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Re: Wagon on Bridge on Bridge Action
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2009, 11:33:51 am »
You cant build supports on bridged sadly...
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Re: Wagon on Bridge on Bridge Action
« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2009, 11:40:16 am »
In my experience, anything attached to the edge of a bridge is unsupported. Try it, and you'll probably find that bridge(2) will fall down and smack into many lovely pieces.

What about hatches, though? Can those be opened with a wagon on top?
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Re: Wagon on Bridge on Bridge Action
« Reply #4 on: April 17, 2009, 11:44:51 am »
Also, supports will not collapse if it would cause a wagon/megabeast/demon to fall. Seriously, its lame (OH GOD WHY ITSN'T THIS WORKING PULL THE LEVER AGAIN! AGAIN! AGAIN! GOD...DAMMIT!)I had some elaborate plans fail miserably because I did'nt know it would not collapse. It worked in the tests, failed when it needed to work.

I bet it would work if you manually deconstructed the support or mined out whatever was holding the structure that wagon/megabeast/demon was on, of course, with the latter two, nobody is going to get anywhere near them to try and do that.
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Re: Wagon on Bridge on Bridge Action
« Reply #5 on: April 17, 2009, 12:07:57 pm »

The bridges just finished building and the depot is accessible so all is good so far. Now I just need to wait till our good friends the Elves show up to see the latest in bridge engineering in action. I even color coded the bridges somewhat, the basalt/dark gray bridges are the ones I will link to a lever and retract so that, hopefully, the granite/gray bridges will fall down into the magma along with the wagons.
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Re: Wagon on Bridge on Bridge Action
« Reply #6 on: April 17, 2009, 12:34:01 pm »
Nice. So bridges attached to bridges work. I noticed that walls, floors, hatches and such will simply fall off (including the dwarf building it ;) ).
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Re: Wagon on Bridge on Bridge Action
« Reply #7 on: April 17, 2009, 12:47:20 pm »
The dwarf will occasionally be blown back onto the bridge.  Noticed this when floor can only fall a single level.  Into my river.
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Re: Wagon on Bridge on Bridge Action
« Reply #8 on: April 17, 2009, 12:51:50 pm »
I've got a ~10 z-level fall to the magma, so hopefully I won't have elves 'floating' to safety.
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Re: Wagon on Bridge on Bridge Action
« Reply #9 on: April 17, 2009, 12:54:26 pm »
Quote from: Elvang on April 17, 2009, 12:51:50 pm
I've got a ~10 z-level fall to the magma, so hopefully I won't have elves 'floating' to safety.
Just pictured an elf, covered in blood, wielding a wooden stick, floating around slaughtering things supported by 10,000 butterflies.
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Re: Wagon on Bridge on Bridge Action
« Reply #10 on: April 17, 2009, 12:58:17 pm »
Quote from: zchris13 on April 17, 2009, 12:54:26 pm
Quote from: Elvang on April 17, 2009, 12:51:50 pm
I've got a ~10 z-level fall to the magma, so hopefully I won't have elves 'floating' to safety.
Just pictured an elf, covered in blood, wielding a wooden stick, floating around slaughtering things supported by 10,000 butterflies.
Or an elf being dropped into a vicious carp tank, only to be supported by the carp in a slippery living raft.
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Re: Wagon on Bridge on Bridge Action
« Reply #11 on: April 17, 2009, 12:59:01 pm »
It's a carpmersible!
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Re: Wagon on Bridge on Bridge Action
« Reply #12 on: April 17, 2009, 05:45:25 pm »
So...
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It does work great for dropping all of the elves though.
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Re: Wagon on Bridge on Bridge Action
« Reply #13 on: April 17, 2009, 06:10:05 pm »
What the? Are they floating? Damn hippies and their butterflies...

Great idea though.
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Re: Wagon on Bridge on Bridge Action
« Reply #14 on: April 17, 2009, 06:13:43 pm »
What happened to the red @ / @ ?

I guess the game does NOT want you to drop any wagons/megabeasts/and such.. holy crap.
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