Travelling

Revanael · Postby **Revanael** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 10:13 pm

Rule number three: If people visit lots of houses in a short space of time, they are either a. newspaper boys or b. thieves.

And in Cantr, always B!

Bowser · Postby **Bowser** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 4:01 am

Rule # 673 - No one really owns a keyless, unlocked bike or boat.

ephiroll · Postby **ephiroll** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 8:07 am

Bowser wrote:Rule # 673 - No one really owns a keyless, unlocked bike or boat.

I know of one poor soul :twisted:

The Hunter · Postby **The Hunter** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 11:37 am

Rule number 4: Always get yourself equipped and armed as soon aas possible...

The RL equivalent is: wear steel toed boots or shies when going out to a bar... :twisted:

Revanael · Postby **Revanael** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 11:16 pm

And make sure your wallet is full enough to buy drinks for any pretty girls you happen to meet; they get expensive...

Siphersh · Postby **Siphersh** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 2:13 pm

What is the name of the unit of which a char can walk 10 in a day? Miles? Cantr miles? Or what? Or is that a question of local customs? I saw at a certain place a two-letter abrevation, I don't know what it stands for.

Or is this unit not at all relevant at in-game level?

The Hunter · Postby **The Hunter** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 2:20 pm

T is local. Whatever you want to name it. Some call iot clicks i believe, some other ppl have different names... I mysself just call it " a day's travel". :lol:

Meh · Postby **Meh** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 3:15 pm

There was a mapper in one region named Clarke. cl. is the Clarke. While the cl. gets cut and pasted the orginal meaning is lost to most characters except for the old and historian types.

Meh · Postby **Meh** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 3:17 pm

Revanael wrote:And make sure your wallet is full enough to buy drinks for any pretty girls you happen to meet; they get expensive...

And please follow this advice. The time and effort that goes into mugging people is wasted on mostly empty wallets.

Siphersh · Postby **Siphersh** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 3:29 pm

(Ah! The Clarke! Now I remember! And 1 Clarke is one tenth of a day's walk? Or... how was it... The amount of something or the time needed for improving the road, or something like that. Amazing, I wouldn't ever believed possible, that in a virtual reality such a deep cultural tradition-system develops. Wow.)

So, I think the most humane way to measure distance, is in "days of travel" by foot, of course. I think that should be standard. Even if half of the pop. uses vehicles. This "Clarke"-thing, and other special measurements may be very precise, but I think they are a bit over-civilized. The first point in talking about distance is nothing else, than talking about how logzi takes to get there.

Revanael · Postby **Revanael** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 3:59 pm

Now, meh, dont incriminate yourself... And my wallet is never really full enough to be worth mugging me; just enough to get drinks for me and a girl or two.

boomhaeur · Postby **boomhaeur** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 4:10 pm

"Ah! The Clarke! Now I remember! And 1 Clarke is one tenth of a day's walk? Or... how was it... The amount of something or the time needed for improving the road"

I believe it was tied to the amount of sand required to improve the road. Somehow he recoqnized a corrolation between the time it took to walk a route and how much sand would be required to upgrade it -- travel a few roads and you'd have enouh data to roughly calibrate how far you travelled in a given amount of time.

It's a great idea as going purely based on times isn't reliable if a turn doesn't run right etc.

Anthony Roberts · Postby **Anthony Roberts** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 5:31 pm

I remember the Clark. Ahh, those days of olde.

I never understood it then, and I still refuse to figure it out.

All I want... "This road is long. Lots of sand!" "This road it short. Not much sand!" - Yay!

Mathematical calculations sometime confuse me.

Sho · Postby **Sho** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 8:13 pm

The Clarke is the number of kilos of sand needed to improve the road. The problem with a unit based on the distance a char can travel in a day is that that distance varies with the amount of stuff the character is carrying. The Clarke is constant, and a player can work out how many Clarkes his character travels in a day.

Siphersh · Postby **Siphersh** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 12:02 am

Sho, thanks for the info. I think that usually days or hours of walk is meant unencumbered, of course. People know very well, that a kilo or so of food does not slow them down significantly. Checking the sand needed is a very precise way, I suppose, it may be very useful for engineers of Camtr, but think about it: _what_ do Cantrians need the information concerning distances need for? They want to plan their routes of journay in an optimal way. But that planning usually involves many social and personal issues as well. This precision is useless precision. You won't change your usual route of resource-gathering just becouse you find out that an alternative path to the same resources is one hour closer than you thought it were. More important is that you already _know_ the people of your usual resource-location. That's speaking about economy, of course, but in the case of politics, social or personal affairs, there are similarly important factors at work, other than the exact distances as well.

And talking about days or hours of is a bit more palpable, and down-to-earth. I like it.

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