How long is one tick?

[Darker]

I wonder - how long does one tick take of real-time (provided there are no lags and the speed is normal).
How long does one tick take of game time?

If electric network element takes 1W/d from network, how much charge (W/d's) did he consume per tick?
Will 1000W/d charged battery last 1000days with 1W/d device?

Can I get total number of ticks from the game start to calculate time differences?

[Architect]

There is 60 ticks in a second stored as a float number. When using tick rare, the tick will only fire every 250 ticks, stored as an integer. That is, assuming I'm reading the code right. Check 'TickManager' for yourself if you wish to confirm, its a public class.

[Darker]

Actually, the GenTime is the key.
Answers are

1tick = 1/60 second (real time)

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public static float TicksInSeconds(this int numTicks)
{
return (float)numTicks / 60f;
}
1game day = 20000 ticks (real time)

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public static float TicksInDays(this int numTicks)
{
return (float)numTicks / 20000f;
}
That would mean that 1W/d means 0.00005W per tick.

[Architect]

I was still correct then? Just found it a different way, though I'll take a look at what GenTime has to offer too.

[Tynan]

Yes, you're both correct. A tick is 1/60th of a realtime second, to match 1 per frame at 60fps. There are 20000 in a day (which means RW days are only 5 and a half realtime minutes long).

[Architect]

So, does fast ecology speed up the number of ticks per second then? Hence why there is slight frame rate lag when fast ecology and 3* speed is on.

[Darker]

I'm not sure about fast ecology - but it doesn't speed up ticks.

But I'm too curious how does it work - it seems to stop TickRare.

[Tynan]

Fast ecology was a weird single-use hack I put in to test how the plant ecology would develop over time. I actually can't remember just what it does, but I think it hacks a number of things to make plants grow/reproduce/die very fast.

[Darker]

Yeah, because plants have lot's if ifs for the fast ecology condition. I implemented these for Tiberium too, but in fact, rare ticks seem to stop so it's no use.

[faltonico]

Yes, you're both correct. A tick is 1/60th of a realtime second, to match 1 per frame at 60fps. There are 20000 in a day (which means RW days are only 5 and a half realtime minutes long).

Is this up to date?
Edit: I'm asking because somebody updated the wiki to 60000 ticks in a day.

[skullywag]

March 9th 2014 ad youre asking if this is up to date? no its not. Code changes every alpha. The wiki is correct thus far.

[faltonico]

March 9th 2014 ad youre asking if this is up to date? no its not. Code changes every alpha. The wiki is correct thus far.

I imagined xD
Thanks for clearing that up!