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I was thinking I could just use

That would work for something.  I'm not sure what it would work for though.

To your original question: water has no momentum, so whether you open one or both gates, you'll get water out all three outputs.  Water does indeed go through diagonals.

Quote from: benoit.hudson on November 13, 2008, 06:55:18 pm

Nit: Doors need a wall next to them, so you're stuck with floodgates.

You can build a wall, then build a door, then deconstruct the wall.

Oooh, sneaky!

Nit: Doors need a wall next to them, so you're stuck with floodgates.

Aw man I thought you meant pave the entire bottom of the ocean. Now that would be an engineeringfeat I would be envious of.

Toady fixed it so that dry ocean tiles don't spawn waves, so this will even work.

Dwarf Holland!

I've also lost a couple of dwarves to pikes and long-nosed gar.  Anyone have any suggestions about how I might defend my dorfs against these fiendish fish?

Easiest, if tedious: 'd'esignate, 'o', 'r' and mark all the terrain near the rivers (within, say, two or three tiles).  Then your dwarves won't walk next to the river unless they really need to, which reduces the probability they'll corner a fish and make it angry and get sucked in, ne'er to be seen again.  What you're doing is telling the dwarves to prefer walking 12.5 normal tiles rather than one of those bright red tiles (you're not telling them never ever to walk on those red tiles, note, just telling them to avoid them if possible).

Also, make sure you have enough booze, and you have a well or three, so they're not tempted to go drink from the river.

Also, 'i' to designate a zone (mnemonic: "zone" is one of the few words that has no 'i' in it), and, once you designated the zone, 'f' to designate it as fishing.  Mark out some pond (more precisely, land immediately next to the pond) for fishing, and your fisherdwarves will go there instead of fishing small fish out of the river.

Catching the big fish is more work; see I3erent's thread on that ("EuReThRa" is the search term to find it).

Time Elapsed:   25
# Complete:   217
Time Remaining:   124.19
End Date:   03/15/09

This prediction is like those wonderful progress bar indicators when you're installing software: totally meaningless

I bet the progress isn't even monotone (I've seen that on some software: the bar gets close to done... and then goes down to only half-done, then it grows, then it shrinks, repeat).  Toady's got the bug-number to squash at too.

That said, # complete is a great way to maintain motivation.

My current fortress got to population 24, of which only 6 adults.