> Da-Breegster wrote:
>> On 2005-12-17, Da-Breegster <dabreegs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> [snip original message]
>> I probably wasn't too clear earlier. My basic conflict was how to handle
>> partial turns, like getting 6 items taking 1.2 turns. I've figured it
>> out, I think. For actions costing more than 1 turn and less than 2, they
>> will be performed in that one turn instead of carrying over to the next.
>> This is done to preserve proper order for characters. But the fact that
>> they rushed to perform a certain action will temporarily decrease their
>> dodging stat or the general preparedness and defence. I think this
>> should work out OK. Still, though, any advice? It's a solution, but it
>> doesn't seem "clean."

> I don't see the problem.  In my game I've got a priority queue, which
> returns the creature earliest in time.  Then every move has some
> assigned duration, say 100 for walking, 50 for running, etc.
> A faster creature may have a multiplier for this.  So after every
> move the creature is pushed back into the queue, with updated
> time.  There are no turns.  You can say a turn is 100, but if your
> PC moves in 80 units, you will get 5 moves in 4 turns.

> Example:
> Bat has a speed of 120.
> Player has a speed of 100.
> Turn:     1     2     3     4     5     6     7     8     9     10
> Bat:      120   240   360   480   600   720   840   960   80    200
> Player:   100   200   300   400   500   600   700   800   900   0

> So we see that the bat moves again at turn 9, but the player can only
> act at move 10 (because his speed is lower).  Also, partial moves (for
> example ones that take up 1.2 turns) are accounted for with the
> carryover (1020 -> 20, not 0).  You can give different values for
> different actions too.  This makes it fairly simple to have heavy
> weapons take longer to attack with, and to allow for pack weight.
> (Speed = Speed - (pack / Str)).  If your speed was 100, your pack had
> 50 pounds in it, and your strength was 10, your speed would be reduced
> by 5 (100 - (50 / 10)).  You could say that your attack speed is (Speed
> - weapon weight).  This way you could attack very quickly with light
> weapons (knives) or slowly with heavy weapons (hammer).  Obviously
> heavy weapons would do more damage.  Attacking with hammer (weight 20)
> would take 13 game turns, instead of the normal 10 for moving.  I hope
> this system helps.

> OTOH, it's not exactly fair to the player to penalize him for certain
> actions.  There could be a game option, though: Rush Actions.  If it
> was on, then all actions would take the same amount of time, but the
> player would suffer stat penalties for slow actions (maybe bonuses for
> quick ones?).  If it was off, then the player would take longer to
> finish actions, but would suffer no penalizations.  This might be the
> best way to implement this.