"Tick" timings

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Re: "Tick" timings

Postby Addicted » Sat Feb 05, 2011 12:42 pm

I didn't realise, but have a character getting slaughtered by animals, so even knowing which half hour out of the three means I can avoid being attacked but still not starve.
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Re: "Tick" timings

Postby Snickie » Sat Feb 05, 2011 2:02 pm

In-game time, animal attacks (at the moment) take place around
2h–1:06—09.
Basically between six and nine minutes on every odd hour, though I've seen a few happen at three and four minutes.
At least, as far as I've noticed, after having a character attacked by every single thing in a location and surviving without even a scratch.
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Re: "Tick" timings

Postby joo » Sat Feb 05, 2011 4:15 pm

Addicted wrote:I didn't realise, but have a character getting slaughtered by animals, so even knowing which half hour out of the three means I can avoid being attacked but still not starve.

I'll add them back in then.

Snickiedoo wrote:In-game time, animal attacks (at the moment) take place around
2h–1:06—09.
Basically between six and nine minutes on every odd hour, though I've seen a few happen at three and four minutes.
At least, as far as I've noticed, after having a character attacked by every single thing in a location and surviving without even a scratch.

Yes, that matches the information EchoMan gave me. The ticks have a major period of two Cantr hours: every two Cantr hours 9 minor ticks occur, distributed uniformly over a period of 32 Earth minutes, or 6.4 Cantr minutes
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Re: "Tick" timings

Postby joo » Thu Mar 31, 2011 2:36 am

joo wrote:
Doug R. wrote:If you're still looking for suggestions, it would be cool if I had the option to [...] to customize the Tick Timing box for [...] content [...]

[...] by content, do you mean adding/removing rows?

Doug R. wrote:Ya. I don't really care about when the animals attack (for example).

Done.
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Re: "Tick" timings

Postby joo » Sat Apr 02, 2011 1:30 am

I am glad to report that the threat of zombies has been subdued, so we can all enjoy the rest of our April in peace.
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Re: "Tick" timings

Postby Snickie » Sat Apr 02, 2011 1:41 am

Oh, good! I was really worried about those zombies, you know, coming and eating our brains and consequently turning ourselves to zombies.
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Re: "Tick" timings

Postby Doug R. » Sat Apr 02, 2011 2:07 am

Starvation seems to still be off by a half hour.
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Re: "Tick" timings

Postby joo » Sat Apr 02, 2011 2:24 am

Well, the source I used to get the starvation timing was a bit uncertain. I wonder if it was ever right. Does the application give a time which is 30 minutes late, or 30 minutes early? I suppose if the rest of the ticks are accurate then I will just adjust the starvation tick individually.

In fact, if someone posts the in-game time at which a starvation occurred, that will allow me to determine it more accurately.
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Re: "Tick" timings

Postby Snickie » Sat Apr 02, 2011 1:23 pm

The starvation tick happens at 0:24.
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Re: "Tick" timings

Postby joo » Sat Apr 02, 2011 2:28 pm

That would then imply that my timing for that tick is 60 minutes late... which is odd, because I recently shifted them backwards by 60 minutes, implying that they were 120 minutes late before then. Well... I'm going to test to see if the other timings are correct.
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Re: "Tick" timings

Postby Snickie » Sat Apr 02, 2011 2:38 pm

Now that I have the right thread....

Tick timings
Snickie wrote:Here's what I have so far from old ticks:
Animal attacks: 2x–1:[05,09]
Eating: 0:28
Starvation: 1:00
Projects: x:24
Land travel: x:17
Sea travel: x:13
Heart attacks (from inactivity, not unsubbing): 6:31


Here's what I have so far on new ticks:
Animal attacks: 2x:[29,34]
Eating: 0:16
Starvation: 0:24
Projects: x:12
Land travel: x:05
Sea travel: x:01
Heart attacks (from inactivity, not unsubbing): 6:19



Match 'em all up with this.
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Re: "Tick" timings

Postby joo » Sat Apr 02, 2011 4:31 pm

Oh, I see now what the problem was. Fixed.
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Re: "Tick" timings

Postby EchoMan » Sat Apr 02, 2011 6:54 pm

Yes, now they look correct again. Btw in ubuntu I can open tick timings by right clicking in the task bar, but not in windows.
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Re: "Tick" timings

Postby joo » Sat Apr 02, 2011 6:58 pm

EchoMan wrote:Yes, now they look correct again. Btw in ubuntu I can open tick timings by right clicking in the task bar, but not in windows.

Because the menu item is missing? Well, by default I have it not displayed - it can be enabled by going into settings - but I see that it's a more popular feature than I anticipated, so I might change it to automatically be present by default (or just remove the option).
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Re: "Tick" timings

Postby EchoMan » Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:14 am

Ah, ok. I must have completely forgot that I ever did that on Ubuntu. Thanks. :)

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