Movement speed
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Printed Date: 17 Apr 2022 at 18:42
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Topic: Movement speed
Posted By: xilla
Subject: Movement speed
Date Posted: 18 May 2010 at 23:32
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Can't find the answer to this anywhere. How is the speed stat proportional to the squares travelled? I.e a speed of 8 would mean how many squares per hour? Also is there a list of diplomatic units' speeds anywhere?
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Posted By: HonoredMule
Date Posted: 19 May 2010 at 11:35
Speed of 8 means 8 squares per hour.
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Posted By: xilla
Date Posted: 19 May 2010 at 13:27
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See, I thought it did, but i thought that was too easy heh. Another dumb question, just for sake of clarity, movement speed is calculated across the line of travel (i.e hypotenuse) right?
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Posted By: HonoredMule
Date Posted: 19 May 2010 at 20:03
Also correct. To further generalize, travel time in seconds = length of hypotenuse * speed / 3600.
And speed = speed of slowest unit * (1.0 + modifiers--like a commander's .05 per level of "Military Logistics")
The game itself has a tick rate of one second, so if you can determine whether subsecond timing rounds up, down, or off, you can calculate arrival time to the precise moment. If server responsiveness is well under 1 second to complete an http request, you can even time multiple events to land at precisely the same time...not that there's much point, though. I'm pretty sure separate attacks landing at the precise same moment will still resolve individually, for example.
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