doubledgedboard Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 I'm EXTREMELY confused by the decision to make doors toggle between OPEN and LOCKED in their automation states. I tried to make an airlock a la the demo in the livestream, and with current behavior it's impossible, because the door just opens and lets more gas in. It makes NO SENSE to have the door go to an OPEN state from LOCKED. Why jump two states?! It should go between LOCKED and AUTO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michi01 Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 36 minutes ago, doubledgedboard said: I'm EXTREMELY confused by the decision to make doors toggle between OPEN and LOCKED in their automation states. I tried to make an airlock a la the demo in the livestream, and with current behavior it's impossible, because the door just opens and lets more gas in. It makes NO SENSE to have the door go to an OPEN state from LOCKED. Why jump two states?! It should go between LOCKED and AUTO You can use duplicant checkpoints inside of the airlock and connect the atmo sensor to those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubledgedboard Posted November 4, 2017 Author Share Posted November 4, 2017 I'm aware of that, but that's not an ideal solution by a mile, the bigger the airlock space the longer it takes to reach vacuum. Edit: Not only that, but this means I'd have to build 2 duplicant checkpoints to surround each door to prevent other dupes who are trying to path through from opening the door and ruining the airlock (while not being able to use automation on the door itself!) I think there's a gap here in the automation upgrade, I need the ability to control which states the door goes into on positive or negative. They could make Open/Closed and Locked/Unlocked two separate inputs so it still works with the pos/neg two state system, or somehow support a third state (like pos/neg/unpowered). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaeDroug Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 The reason to make them go to open is for use in things like sluice gates and the like. That being said it would be nice to be able to choose between a signal setting them to open or auto. Perhaps make it so that the behavior of the door changes depending on if you have the door powered or not. For example Door without power goes between locked and unlocked and a powered door goes between open and closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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