Halfling blade master...

yet you can bet in an umounted/unflighted footrace I’m going to win with twice as many moves as my opponent.

Dey

No, you are not. They are going to be gone from you where into a bolt hole so fast you can run around the world twice without it mattering.

Speed = distance / time. Simple. Who can get there in the least amount of time. Amount of moves is (essentially) endurance. Endurance will not help you when you are moving at half the speed of your opponent. You will be dead within ten rooms of fleeing.

EG:

Elf vs dwarf: You know that elf is going to get down the 100m faster than the dwarf. That dwarf might be able to run for three days straight, but he is still slower than the elf.

L-A

Elf vs dwarf: You know that elf is going to get down the 100m faster than the dwarf. That dwarf might be able to run for three days straight, but he is still slower than the elf.

L-A

There are two ways to define being the fastest. One of them is in terms of your raw 'top speed' - a person who can run at 100mph is faster than a person that can run at 90mph.

The second defintion? Two people run from A to B, that distance being 15,000,000 miles. The first person who can run 100mph can run for only 1 minute before becoming too tired to continue. The second person cannot run faster than 90mph but he can run forever.

Even though the first person can run at a higher top speed and making him faster in that sense, the second person can get from A-B much faster, making him faster in that sense.

What I am getting at, is that there are two ways of defining what 'fastest' is - top speed, and time it takes to get from A to B.

Your formula is the formula for speed. Having the highest speed makes you the fastest only in one definition of the word. Here's another dictionary definition for fastest:

1. done in comparatively little time; taking a comparatively short time: a fast race; fast work.

So it stands to reason that top speed doesn't neccessarily mean everything:

Your example is right, assuming I run at half the speed of my opponent. I'm not trying to sound big headed or anything (I can't think of any other way to word it without it sounding big headed, so please accept my disclaimer ), but I don't run at half the speed of the other players - I can run fairly well, usually only being caught over a long distance by the top tier runners/PKers. So let's say I run at 9/10 or 4/5 of the speed of my opponent but I have an extra 500 moves. Who is going to get from A-B in the best time then, assuming the distance is a fair bit more than my opponent has moves to run without resting?

Let's even take an even scenario - two people run a race that requires 900 moves to get from A to B without resting. Both characters run at EXACTLY the same speed (both leaving and entering the next room at the same time), but one of them has 400 moves and one has 900 moves. The one with 900 is going to have the FASTEST time (because the one with 400 will have to stop to rest) and thus be the FASTEST in the second defnition I explained earlier even though they are both running at the same speed.

Please, somebody tell me they understand what I am getting at!

Dey

Endurance is part of speed in a long race, like a marathon.

'i understand dey. does anyone else think this thread has gone on for toooo long?

Rofl

Sigh.

Running the longest is not the same as running the fastest.

Running the longest is not the same as running the fastest.

thats what i have ben trying to say

moves in NO WAY signifies speed, just endurance.

You guys are all stupid.

You ever heard fast and steady wins the race?

Speed = Distance/Time

Right?

Running from Val Miran to Miruvhor.

If John is super fast but can only has 20 moves, John won't be able to go far at all.

Billy however, is much slower but has 1000 moves. Billy will arrive at his destination much FASTER than John.

Use the formula. Speed = Distance / Time. Who had the greater speed?

Stop being so narrow minded. I bet your all religious republicans!

You guys are all stupid.

You ever heard fast and steady wins the race?

Speed = Distance/Time

Right?

Running from Val Miran to Miruvhor.

If John is super fast but can only has 20 moves, John won't be able to go far at all.

Billy however, is much slower but has 1000 moves. Billy will arrive at his destination much FASTER than John.

Use the formula. Speed = Distance / Time. Who had the greater speed?

Stop being so narrow minded. I bet your all religious republicans!

Moves STILL indicates ENDURANCE. It is a measure of how FAR you can go, not how fast. No matter how you say it.

The person in your example loses the race because they are not endurant enough to complete it, but John is still faster for those 20 spaces.

S=D/T (S being speed, D being distance traveled, Time being the time it took to travel it) so John only traveled 20 spaces, the formula would then be S=20/T for John. You cannot calc John's speed using this formula using a distance he DIDNT travel, that would not be accurate.

You can say that John didnt have enough stamina (moves) to complete the race however.

The only way to show, mechanically, speed in FL is to change the built in delay on moving N,E,W,S,U,D. Like with forestwalk.

S=D/T (S being speed' date=' D being distance traveled, Time being the time it took to travel it) so John only traveled 20 spaces, the formula would then be S=20/T for John. You cannot calc John's speed using this formula using a distance he DIDNT travel, that would not be accurate.[/quote']

Wouldn't his total time just be higher? Like with pit stops in an auto race.

I'm waiting on the obligatory "Arguing on the interweb is like...." picture.

a-g

I'm waiting on the obligatory "Arguing on the interweb is like...." picture.

a-g

pfft, we are discussing.