Speed of Travel
You may wonder about the speed at which we travel the Steampunk Road. North, South, East, or West, over land or sea, the speed is 120 kilometers per hour. This is both an easy number to work with (two kilometers per minute, ten every five minutes) and also the top speed of a Zeppelin (our favorite mode of travel). How a llama can travel that speed over water or a steamship over land, we do not know, but they do.
Vessels follow a great circle from port to port, so they may not look like they are headed straight there, but they are making the trip in a minimal amount of time. Positions are not updated continuously on the map, but rather every five minutes. You can see the difference if you set the map to maximum zoom over a vessel.
We originally toyed with the idea that all travel would be restricted to established trade routes on approved vessels at realistic speeds. Weigh in here on whether this change in transportation is an essential feature, something nice to have after everything else is done, inconsequential, or if you prefer the way travel works now.
These surveys will be a regular weekly feature of the blog. If you are curious about last week’s survey on mobile, the consensus is that mobile would be a nice feature to have after everything else is finished.
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