Changing unit move speed

[RetPaladinlol]

Hi everyone, I'm trying to change the move speed of the zombies in the Zombie Apocalypse mod A14. I went inside the ThingDefs folder and changed the Races_Zombie xml line that states <Movespeed>. It was originally 3.5 which was a little too slow for my taste. I changed it to 5.07 (10% increase) but when I started a game the zombies were no faster than they were originally. Is there another tag somewhere I need to mess with to increase their speed?

Link to the ZA mod A14:

https://ludeon.com/forums/?topic=3635.0

[robotguy4]

Can you either update the ModDB version, upload a .zip or tell me how to get to the files from Steam Workshop? Nevermind, I found it. It would still help if you updated a non-steam version, but it's not necessary.

This is probably a silly question, but did you try setting move speed to 100 to confirm changing that number does nothing?

[RetPaladinlol]

Hi, this is the mod in question.

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=97402246643311234681

I tried your suggestion of changing the movespeed to 100 and still nothing. The zombies still move at the same slow speed. Perhaps movespeed is tied to the ZombieApocalypse.dll somehow? I'm not sure how .dll's work.

[Illusion Distort]

Looked throught the .dll, no movementspeed mentioned...

[RetPaladinlol]

Looked throught the .dll, no movementspeed mentioned...

Thanks for doing that. My only wild inexperienced guess right now is that a health effect is affecting their move speed and slowing them down that way. Maybe.

[kaptain_kavern]

did you create a new world for your test ?


From my prior test with animal races, all there is to change is the XML tag value

[1000101]

As kaptain_kavern said, you should always test changes in a new game not an existing one.

Once you confirmed the change happened in the new game then you look at compatibility with existing saves and make a note as to whether it is or not so you can tell your users.

Don't test in a dirty environment, always use a clean one.

[RetPaladinlol]

As kaptain_kavern said, you should always test changes in a new game not an existing one.

Once you confirmed the change happened in the new game then you look at compatibility with existing saves and make a note as to whether it is or not so you can tell your users.

Don't test in a dirty environment, always use a clean one.

Yes, I always started with a new world and new game to test it. I also disabled all other mods besides that one to ensure it wasn't a compatibility issue. Spoke with Skullywag and he thinks there is something hardcoded.

Edit* Also forgot to mention the move speed change is actually reflected in the game when you open their character info tab. It will say like move speed: 100 cells per second but they will still be slower than a snail.

[1000101]

Interesting, if you can narrow down where the problem lies then it could be addressed.

[Kenny Dave]

Is it possible to have floor movement speed greater than 100% based on floor tiles?

I'm looking at this mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1547692203&searchtext=fences+and+floors

with sensor panels which used to do this. I can change the walk speed in the description to greater than 100%, but on testing the movement is the same as 100%.

The method I used is to get the walk speed displayed as greater than 100% is a negative value for the <pathcost>. Which used to work, in either 0.18 or 0.19. Not sure which, I didn't have a colony in 0.19.

Thanks if you can help!