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Jacob
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Pressure plate problem (0)

Doesn't seem to be in the list of fixes for 3.1 (may not even be a bug)

If you start your room with your sword on an orb, it has immediate effect (i.e. all the affected doors are open/closed/toggled immediately).

The same is not true if you enter on a pressure plate. If you are standing on a pressure plate that opens an immediately adjacent door (and there's no other tile to step on) you have no choice but to leave the room (so it's not just a question of it being the normal atypical room entry behaviour- when eyes can't see you, bombs don't go off etc).

This seems to me to be unintended, after all, Beethro is standing on the pressure plate.

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09-04-2007 at 12:17 AM

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Re: Pressure plate problem (+1)

This might be intentional. From what I remember of the code, I'm pretty sure it is intentional that a pressure plate considers itself "currently pressed" but doesn't fire its actions on turn zero if (non-flying) monsters are on it. So I guess it's somewhat consistent to treat the player the same, even though the player really did just step onto it. But if this is a problem for room design, don't put pressure plates at the edge of that room.

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09-04-2007 at 01:52 AM

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Re: Pressure plate problem (0)

But it doesn't become activated at any turn following turn 0 either. One must actively step onto it while in the room, rather than be standing on it (which is not consistent for example with placing a mimic directly on a pressure plate). But yes, as you say, this is not a major issue if you don't put pressure plates at room entrances.

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09-04-2007 at 02:20 PM

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Re: Pressure plate problem (0)

I agree that this is unintuitive and needs fixing. We allow some things not to happen on turn 0 for good reason; e.g. if monsters moved or bombs went off, the player could be trapped in a game-crashing loop of dying. This is not the case here.

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09-04-2007 at 10:56 PM

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