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[gregorah]

So I've built an adding machine (will be posted later). During the construction of said adding machine, I noticed that when I attached some bridges for a more readable format, the computation slowed down. A lot.

Do pressure plates have a delay that depends on what they are attached to? That's kind of weird but it makes some kind of sense.

[koruth]

Pressure plates don't (to my knowledge) but bridges have a 100-tick delay between when they're triggered, and when they actually respond.

see: http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Bridge
(it's in the bottom section, right near the bottom of the text period, so I don't blame you for missing it)

[gregorah]

Pressure plates don't (to my knowledge) but bridges have a 100-tick delay between when they're triggered, and when they actually respond.

see: http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Bridge
(it's in the bottom section, right near the bottom of the text period, so I don't blame you for missing it)

From what I can tell, attaching a bridge/door/whatever to a pressure plate will slow any other devices attached to the pressure plate; For instance, a pressure plate -> Gear assembly is rather quick, but linking a bridge made the gear assembly toggle when the bridge changed position; not at the normal speed.

I'm just wondering if anyone else can duplicate/confirm that I'm not crazy.

[koruth]

It makes sense that the overall activation time for a multi-linked lever or pressure plate would be the activation time of the slowest device in its linkage.

In other words: Bridges take time to lower, and everything else waits for them to lower to go off as well.

I'll get around to testing that for you as soon as I can though.

[Ranzear]

Not sure if the citation that a bridge will delay any other device attached to the same pressure plate is correct, and I can adamantly deny that for levers. Its a standard construction in my atom smasher to have a door and bridge attached to the same lever to utilize that delay: door closes, pause, bridge smashes.

[forsaken1111]

Not sure if the citation that a bridge will delay any other device attached to the same pressure plate is correct, and I can adamantly deny that for levers. Its a standard construction in my atom smasher to have a door and bridge attached to the same lever to utilize that delay: door closes, pause, bridge smashes.

Maybe the order in which you link them matters. I'm wondering if it goes down a list and waits for each to execute.

[gregorah]

After further testing I've found that pressure plates do not slow down when a bridge is attached. They're just slow to deactivate.