Gold Mine Movement Speed

[mattdraw]

Trying to bypass the slowing of movement speed Peasant's face while mining when you increase their base movement speed. I've even tried setting their minimum movement speed to the same as their maximum. Ay ideas how to fix this?

 

[Chaosium]

Actually they don't appear to be slowed down. I've just ran a test with a simple trigger to display the movement speed of two peasants - one loaded with gold and one without - and they have strictly the same, even if you change their base MS.

It might just be an impression, because the walk gold animation is slightly slower than the regular walk.

 

[mattdraw]

Did you have them run through the gold mine, because it's obviously different. Their speed slows down a bit after running through it a couple of times. Set their speed to 400 or so.

 

[Eagle XI]

They do get slowed down, inspecially noticeable when mining in groups of 5 or more.
What i dont get is that is seemingly working a bit random, some suffer this right away whilst one or two keep moving at the normal pace. At some point they all become slowed down to a crawl.

As far i know this was introduced in a patch for some silly reason(to get orcs and humans mining to near same rate with undead and nelf) and is probably hardcoded.

 

[mattdraw]

So basically I gotta make this is a de-patched wc3?

 

[Dr Super Good]

Its probably some sort of automatic tuning of the peasant/peon speed so that the mining rates are the same irrespective of mine placement in melee matches. In theory increasing their speed would decrease the number needed to optimize mine output so maybe consider raising their amount carried but having them move slower (unless there is some way around that).

 

[Eagle XI]

at "Harvest (Gold and Lumber)" ability
set cast range to 50.00

Does this actually do something ?

 

[TKF]

This is hardcoded afaik. But to can fix it by setting movement speed on the unit with triggers, but it need to be periodically checked because it will be changed again (perhaps only when you reorder the worker to same or different mine, I haven't tested it so much)

 

[Remixer]

The peasants get slowed down for game balance. However if you re-order the peasants they will receive their regular movement speed.

I think the only way to get around the slow movement speed is to re-order them towards the Town Hall every time they exit the gold mine.