Woden Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 First off, overall I'm very much enjoying the electrical system. It's a great addition to the game and you've done kickass work with it. With that said, I have beef, mainly about the control circuits. (I have aesthetic quibbles about the wire spaghetti, but that's a small thing.) In my electrical horde base, I've got the zombies coming down a long hallway with dart traps at the end. I wanted to connect a series of pressure plates to the dart traps so that they would continue firing as the front line advanced down the hall. But that's impossible with the circuitry rules as they currently are. Currently, a device can only accept one connection from any kind of switch, which means each dart trap can only be controlled by a single trigger plate. Therefore, the main request: I would like to see the electrical system allow multiple switches to control a single device using logical OR rules: if any of the switches are on, then the device is on. And a couple of other, lesser requests spawned by the same session: I would also appreciate if the wire tool showed wires that were hidden from view while held. Making sense of the wire spaghetti can be plenty hard enough without also losing track of wires as they go through walls and devices. : D And at some point in the future, I really want multiplexers, or insulated wires, or something to let us run multiple sets of control signals down a single line of wire relays. Having a base coated in relays is so ugly that it makes me a sad panda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wordwaster Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 a) because wires can be run through blocks, you can dig a tunnel underneath your electrical things to hide wires. b)use a motion sensor instead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingSlayerGM Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 An OR gate is the first thing I asked when A16 came out. It turned out that they actually thought about it and it is already in the game!! It is called "passthrough triggering" and there is an specific entry in this in the "tips" tab of the game. This is how you should connect your devices: GENERATOR ------> PRESSURE_PLATE_1 ------> PRESSURE_PLATE_2 ------> DART_TRAP In this example just one of the pressure plates is enough to trigger the trap. I know, it is counter intuitive, but once you get the hang of it, it really simplifies things a lot. Seeing wires behind and inside walls while you are holding the wiretool seems a pretty good idea, as long as you cant see someone's else wires. (for PvP reasons) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Necrophobic Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 First off, overall I'm very much enjoying the electrical system. It's a great addition to the game and you've done kickass work with it. With that said, I have beef, mainly about the control circuits. (I have aesthetic quibbles about the wire spaghetti, but that's a small thing.) In my electrical horde base, I've got the zombies coming down a long hallway with dart traps at the end. I wanted to connect a series of pressure plates to the dart traps so that they would continue firing as the front line advanced down the hall. But that's impossible with the circuitry rules as they currently are. Currently, a device can only accept one connection from any kind of switch, which means each dart trap can only be controlled by a single trigger plate. Therefore, the main request: I would like to see the electrical system allow multiple switches to control a single device using logical OR rules: if any of the switches are on, then the device is on. And a couple of other, lesser requests spawned by the same session: I would also appreciate if the wire tool showed wires that were hidden from view while held. Making sense of the wire spaghetti can be plenty hard enough without also losing track of wires as they go through walls and devices. : D And at some point in the future, I really want multiplexers, or insulated wires, or something to let us run multiple sets of control signals down a single line of wire relays. Having a base coated in relays is so ugly that it makes me a sad panda. I have about 20+ hours just in wiring my base and still not done, I have found so far that the lighting needs major fixing, it causes major lag spikes with many lights and Trigger Plates, if you want to see some complex wiring jump on the server I play on I'll show you.. Server: Addicts For Blood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vedui Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 As highlighted already, you can chain multiple sensors, pressure plates and trip wires with passthrough triggering. Plate 1 --> plate 2 --> plate 3 --> trap works fine, either plate being stepped on will activate. It does mean you have to use a relay in between to interrupt, if you want to do something like motion sensor (zombie) --> Pressure plate --> trap and only activate if it was a zombie in view... stick a relay in between such as motion sensor --> relay --> pressure plate --> trap It's a bit clunky, but it generally works fine /Vedui - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferrit Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 I've been experimenting and can't find a way of using Passthrough Triggering to let me do the following: Have a Trip wire/Trigger plate that activates trap, while also having a manual override switch to activate trap. This is in case the trip wire/trigger plate is destroyed (curse exploding cops!). Any ideas for a solution? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vedui Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 I don't think you can no. What I would like to see possibly is to separate "power" from "triggers" ... ie, you can wire everything up for power however you want, but then each item can take x number (3-5 or whatever) of trigger inputs. Not only would it make it much cleaner to run power wires, you could then easily have different types of triggers for each trap. A pressure plate, a manual switch, a sensor, at timers and delays as you choose, and it'd work nicely. After all, this is how IRL works. You don't connect your main power to an IR sensor which goes to you camera or alarm/speaker. You power everything. Then you hook up the inputs to the alarm, and the conditions for trigger. But, that's sadly not how the system is made up right now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElCabong Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Fix it so you only see the damn wires when you hold the tool. They are my pet peeve or the electrical system Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackelmyer Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 * Show wiring through walls and powered items when a tool is held. * Ideally add a color aura to each powered item: Green aura for Well Powered. Red for Unpowered. Bonus Yellow aura when the power line or a power source is running at 90% capacity. * Let me use the wire tool on a Block directly and turn it into a "Wired block", only capable of powering a block touching it. OR. Let me turn a block into a Relay Block with a wire tool and a Relay item in my inventory. Then let me run wires from that block to another block. You know. Running wires through the walls. Like... a civilized person... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siddus Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 really like Jackelmyer's idea's about the electricity, a "wired block" could just be marked with a black stripe on it, and a "relay block" could have the same black marking and a round shiny marker at the middle (or something) .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SylenThunder Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 Oh look... It's another zombie.... BOOM - Headshot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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