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v0.31 Talk:Repeater
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This are not repeaters in normal understanding [1]! A repeater is a device that takes a signal and gives it on. This are clock generators. [2]. --Axkibe 16:51, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
In DF the usage of a repeater is limited, but think of it as e.g. you want one pressure plate in an dangerous area to give a signal to many things, and you want to extend that later on without going there. Then you need a repeater, some construction that takes that signal, opens e.g. a floodgate and thus signals another pressure plate that does all things. If you want to add more tasks to that event, you do not have a dwarf to go to the first plate again. --Axkibe 16:51, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
- You might notice that according to that wikipedia article you linked, a repeater is also an electronic device, so it wouldn't be appropriate to use for the devices you describe either, using your criteria at least. In reality, "repeater" is a word with many definitions, and it's being used here in the most common sense of "a person or thing that repeats," found at http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/repeater and elsewhere. This is not only correct usage, it is also common usage, which is very important.98.203.173.56 20:30, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
- A person that *repeats* what it gets as input.Thats a repeater. Its not a cyclic action. Is the common usage limited to DF community? Since I never heared repeater used for a clock generator elsewhere.--Axkibe 14:51, 14 August 2011 (UTC)