Speed (travel)

Some units travel faster than others overland. A mixed group of units or ships travels at the speed of the slowest member. Gyrocopters are the fastest unit.

Ships have different speeds, too. Warships are slower than Cargo Ships.

See also: Unit, Ship and Common Ship Questions

Formulas

The folllowing formulas give the amount of time that is necessary for ships and / or units to reach it's destination.

Basic

Time to travel (in minutes) = ${{\frac {1,200}{\mbox{ ship speed }}}\cdot {\sqrt {(x_{2}-x_{1})^{2}+(y_{2}-y_{1})^{2}}}}$

Notes:

1. This formula is what is best use when you 1^st start the game and do not have any researches discovered that can increase your travel speed.
2. The result value is in minutes and the seconds part is always rounded up to the nearest whole number integer.

Cargo Ships

The speed of a Cargo Ship is 60, so this simplifies to:

${20\cdot {\sqrt {(x_{1}-x_{2})^{2}+(y_{1}-y_{2})^{2}}}}$

Example

1. If your Cargo Ship is going from 30:30 (x₁:y₁) to 31:30 (x₂:y₂) (Straight line)

${ 20 \times \sqrt{ ( 30 - 30 ) ^ 2 + ( 31 - 30 ) ^ 2 } }$   =   ${ 20 \times 1.0 }$   =    20 minutes .

1. If your Cargo Ship is going from 30:30 (x₁:y₁) to 31:31 (x₂:y₂) (Diagonal)

${ 20 \times \sqrt{ ( 31 - 30 ) ^ 2 + ( 31 - 30 ) ^ 2 } }$   =   ${ 20 \times \sqrt{ 2 } }$   =   ${ 20 \times 1.41 }$   =   28.28 min ≈ 28 minutes 17 seconds.

Note:

A distance of zero, the towns are on the same island, is treated as a distance of ${ 0.5 \times 20 }$   =    10 minutes .

Advanced

${\frac {Dist\times 72,000}{(Speed+\left[Speed\times SCALevel~(only~ships)\right]\times Gov\%)\times (1+(Pos\%+Draft\%)+TritonLevel)}}$

Dist

The number if Island spaces (Euclidean diatance) you will be traveling.

Speed

See the individual units / ships to get their speed, indicated by this icon (

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SCALevel

The level of the building Sea Chart Archive. Can be [0 through #.#] for [Levels 0 through 40].

Gov%

The government form Oligarchy can increase your speed by 10% or 1.10, otherwise, the speed will be the normal speed or 1.0.

Pos%

The percentage from the activation of the Miracle of Poseidon. Can be [0.0, 0.10, 0.30, 0.50, 0.70, 1.0] for level [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5].

Draft%

Can be [66.4%, 49.8%, 33.2%, 16.6%, 0%] based on the amount of cargo per merchant ship [100, 200, 300, 400, 500].

TritonLevel

Can be [0, 1, 2, 3] for [+0%, +100%, +200%, +300%].

Notes:

1. This is the more accurate formula to use after you have learned the researches that will increase your travel speed.
2. The result value is in seconds and is always rounded up to the nearest whole number integer.

Time to reach a city on the same island

in minutes	Unit
7.5	Gyrocopter
10	Doctor
	Archer
	Hoplite
	Slinger
	Spearman
	Sulphur Carabineer
	Swordsman
15	Catapult
	Cook
	Mortar
	Ram
	Steam Giant
30	Balloon-Bombardier
in minutes	Unit