Re: Olympia: Stone weights

From: whalen@stromboli.usc.edu (Tim Whalen)

Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In <3mu2ea$9ms@sand.cis.ufl.edu> sgt@beach.cis.ufl.edu (S. Towns) writes:

>Could someone tell me the weights of stone in Olympia?  I have heard that it is
>very easy to overload your noble so that he can't move, and I'd like to avoid
>this if possible.

The Imperial City market listed the weight of every object in Olympia on
turn 12, I think.  Hopefully that stunt won't ever be repeated but somebody
could do the new players a great service by compiling that info to an archive
somewhere...  At any rate, stone weighs 100.  Thus each man in your stack can
carry a single stone at walking pace or two stones at half speed.  To be more
precise, if it normally takes X days to walk from A to B, your stack will
take Y days, where

Y = MAX(X,SUB(X*(weight_carried/capacity)))

unless weight_carried/capacity > 2.00, which means you can't move at all on
any non-zero-time route.  This means it takes 9 days to walk an 8 day route
if you are 124.9% encumbered but it takes 10 days if you are 125% encumbered.
It takes 8 days if you are anywhere under 112.5% encumbered.  Flying or riding
are impossible if you are over 100% encumbered.  Hint:  Never fly across a
route that takes one day to walk.  You can carry as much as you want on a
zero-time route.  I.e. a noble can move out of a mine and into a tower in a
province carrying 5000 stone all by himself.  Boats move at full speed if
the weight of *everything* in them is less than their capacity times their
damage.  I.e. an undamaged gally can carry 5000, a 20% damaged galley can
carry 4000, etc.  If you exceed their capacity they are dead in the water
until you repair them or drop something.  The "% loaded" factors in the
current damage.

ORBA (Olympia Rules Bar Association)

References

Olympia: Stone weights
sgt@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Stuart Grant Towns)
Mon, 17 Apr 1995 00:00:00 +0000