×By which I mean, maybe you're not ready for the conquer token yet.

Is there anything else you could do?

×I'm talking about how the "state" of the switch seems to arbitrarily switch if you enter the room standing on it rather than stepping on it after entering the room. That doesn't seem to have any reasonable explanation.

×The specific case of the player entering on a plate may seem odd, but imagine if a roach starts on a plate.

When this happens, the door is open whether the room is cleared or not, but the plate is initially held down (and not considered to be triggered) when the room is uncleared and the roach is there, but initially not held down when the room is cleared and there's no roach.

This has particular consequence with one-use plates. When an enemy starts on one of those, it's held down but not triggered. I've seen a handful of puzzles where the trick was either clearing the plate so it could be activated, or keeping an enemy on the plate so it never activates.

So I guess the player behavior was set up this way because it seemed more consistent with that.

×You're not the first to be surprised by this trick. It was actually reported as a bug a long time ago. Not sure if the response was 'intended' or 'too late to fix without breaking existing rooms'.

×On the other hand the following interactions do trigger pressure plates on room edges
- Slayer enters the room
- Halph enters the room
- Soldiers/Clones are called by horns
There's also the precedent that the player can hit orbs on turn 0. It's one of those cases where you could make a case for either side and it just has to work one way or the other...