then Istaria continent is the size of the city of Columbus, Ohio.
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That's interesting, strange, and awesome
So, wait, does that mean we know the airspeed velocity of an unladen dragon?
Yeah, from different angles of ascension. Recently I was made aware of a way to 'ride the air' by flying up then holding down immediately after and it apparently speeds up your fly speed, so if I get around to it I may calculate that as well to figure out if it's truly faster.
The default runspeed of 50 = 5 meters/sec = 18 km/hour = 11.18 mph
The 220 speed (which is gift speed + sprints + potions + gangaf boots)= 79.2 km/hour= 49.2 mph
Basically 1 runspeed or 1 velocity = .1m/sec = 0.36 km/h = 0.223694 mph
So just multiply whichever times your in game speed to convert it.
I'm not sure if you're just taking Istaria's speed numbers as fact here or you actually clocked it and the speed measurement is different from velocity. I'll clock it when I get home, though, to see what I come up with. :) (Luckily I do have a biped in my mess of dragons on my account)
I just want to take a moment here to thank everyone in this thread for making me feel really dumb. Fun fact turned into Trig 301
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The world map on the installation CD from 10/2013
Oh my, NT is on the map! Dang, the world looks so different there. So much green, so little blight.
Also, referring back to earlier, I clocked my biped with 50 speed running away from a stationary NPC. Took 3.14 seconds to run 17 meters, which ends up being ~5.41 m/s. That's 19.476 KPH and 12.102 MPH, meaning 1 speed is equal to 0.24 MPH or 0.39 KPH through my experimentation. :)
never tried that! but I have found a way to make my dragon simply glide/soar the air currents instead of flapping like a duck XD
While flying, use the center scroll wheele of the mouse to use it to lower the camera down just a little, until you stop flapping. then click it again to disable the mouse camera/locomotion control (back to normal). and enjoy! :D
though it would be cool if dragons had a sprint for air maybe a "Flight boost" ability?
I`m not sure how to measure speed vs. timing across Istaria though. But I have flown across Istaria (From WD to tip of ED) once, it didn`t take very long with velocity scales, and gift of velocity. plus spun sugar. I`ll have to time it again once to see how long it actualy takes. I do know that one Istarian day is one Earth hour. If that helps at all.
That's how I usually fly, though I tend to just drop like a rock from the sky if I lower my camera all the way, but it's the fastest! (is what I calculated the fastest speed from) That would be neat , although I think the devs have said no to it before. Not sure though.
And one Jupiter day is 8 Earth hours, but yet we don't say each second on Jupiter is 1/8 of an Earth second! A second's defined as "the duration of 9192631770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom" which makes almost no sense to me, but basically is a fraction of how low some material takes to decay. So, seconds are the same everywhere.
In Istaria, I'm not sure if meters are perfectly the same as their real life counterparts, but the game does have distances measured in meters when a unit's given. So what I do is I use the physics formula "Speed = Distance/Time". I clock however long it takes to go from A to B in seconds, then divide the distance between A and B by that time. There you have the speed in meters per second, which can then be converted to miles per hour and such. ^^ Considering Istaria is something like 28km by 28km roughly (though it's probably longer than it is wide), it shouldn't take too long flying at 31kph.
By the way, I literally just realised that Steelclaw said
I have no idea why I never noticed Steelclaw gave us the units Istaria uses, but I feel kind of stupid for not realising it. Then again, I didn't re-read the thread when it was revived after 2 years of being silent.
Oops.
Though this may not fully apply to dragons because when you angle your camera differently, you fly at different speeds (slower on ascending, faster on descending), but it's a base. And I feel stupid for missing it. xD
Meaning! The default flyspeed is 16.77 MPH/27 KPH and the maximum ancient flyspeed (minus the movement crystal) is 27.73 MPH/44.64 KPH. Or at least should be, I assume when flying level.
Oh wow, that reference went right over my head. xD Then again, I've never seen that movie. I should see it though! I feel like a bit of a moron now for replying seriously..