Editing v0.34 Talk:Pressure plate

The level of detail in this article is truly impressive. I thank thee, whoever had to do the experiments to figure it out. [[User:ZortLF2|ZortLF2]] ([[User talk:ZortLF2|talk]]) 18:44, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

== Expected FPS crunch from lightspeed repeaters ==

I've played around with devices that send multiple open/close signals in close succession, e.g. ten doors linked to pressure plates, each activated two steps apart. The opening/closing sequence caused a massive slowdown of the game. A "flickering" door, run by a multi-plate repeater with a period of about 15 steps per full open&close cycle similarly caused massive lasting slowdown as long as it was active.

To verify, i built a simple door into a niche and ran it manually by a dwarf per Pull Lever/R - that reduced FPS from the low 40s to 12. It didn't matter if the door was accessible or not: i walled the door off, and even when completely surrounded by walls, putting the door on this fast repeat killed the frame rate; it _seems_ that pathing calculations aren't the main culprit. I don't know what exactly consumes all those cycles, but buildings that are opened/closed via mechanism definitely eat a lot of processing power, and it gets quite bad when this happens in quick succession. A true light speed repeater would probably not be very fun to run. --[[User:Larix|Larix]] ([[User talk:Larix|talk]]) 05:29, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

== Table of sizes != Table of weights ==

I am confused by the section [[DF2012:Pressure plate#Choosing Weights|Choosing Weights]]. It references the [[DF2012:List of creatures by adult size|list of creatures by adult size]]. That list explicitly documents ''sizes'', but this page implies that it documents ''weights''. That is an error, right?
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 == Table of sizes != Table of weights ==
-:I am confused by the section [[DF2012:Pressure plate#Choosing Weights|Choosing Weights]]. It references the [[DF2012:List of creatures by adult size|list of creatures :by adult size]]. That list explicitly documents ''sizes'', but this page implies that it documents ''weights''. That is an error, right?
+I am confused by the section [[DF2012:Pressure plate#Choosing Weights|Choosing Weights]]. It references the [[DF2012:List of creatures by adult size|list of creatures by adult size]]. That list explicitly documents ''sizes'', but this page implies that it documents ''weights''. That is an error, right?
-If there's an error, it's probably the mention of weights in this article. As far as i can tell, pressure plates measure the ''size'' of creatures. My tests of citizen-triggered plates show that my fortress-mode dwarfs have sizes in the range of 60.000 to over 90.000, while weight (measured by examining minecarts dwarfs were riding in, verified by cart-sensing pressure plates) ranges from 70-110 kg (up to 130 including equipment).--[[User:Larix|Larix]] ([[User talk:Larix|talk]]) 01:19, 1 April 2017 (UTC)