Solaris
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I'm not sure if this is a bug but in a room I made when I locked a door the fuse kept going (it went over the door). I know its different now because we can walk on doors but do you want this to happen?

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mrimer
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Solaris wrote:
I'm not sure if this is a bug but in a room I made when I locked a door the fuse kept going (it went over the door). I know its different now because we can walk on doors but do you want this to happen?

Probably, yes, but that's a tough one: if a fuse is completely on a large door, say, I can't foresee whether it would be better to have raising the door destroy the entire fuse or just leave it. We could invent all kinds of rules like "Break the fuse only if it goes over a tile of single-wide door that closes" but that would start becoming obscure and might open a can of worms. Thoughts?

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Fafnir
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My first inclination would be to minimise engine-related surprises to people coming over from DROD wherever possible. In DROD, closing a door over a fuse cuts the fuse at that point regardless of the size of the door, so that behaviour should be preserved unless there's a good reason not to.

Of course, that all goes out the window if there's more puzzle potential in changing the behaviour. Which there could well be, since Beethro is immune to explosions while standing on a closed door and most of the puzzles relying on doors cutting fuses would be crippled by the fixed-duration fights and the small room sizes. Thoughts?

I think if we do keep it though, it's sufficiently counter-intuitive to people coming over from DROD that spelling it out somewhere in the official hold might be a good idea.

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