Movement Speed

Movement speed (MS) is an attribute that controls the action cost of moving.

Movement speed can't be adjusted during character generation, and is not affected by other attributes, such as agility. The player and most other characters begin with a default movement speed of 100.

Overview
How fast a character moves is determined by a combination of quickness (QN) and movement speed (MS).


 * Quickness determines how fast a character is overall. It affects all actions, including moving, attacking, using items, and just about anything else a character can do. For that reason, if you have a choice between increasing your quickness or your movement speed, it is generally preferable to increase your quickness.
 * Movement speed is a more specialized attribute that affects only movement actions. Improving your movement speed can allow your character to move multiple spaces in a single turn (or, more commonly, to move one extra space during the course of a few turns), helping you to outrun enemies, escape dangerous situations, or keep your distance as you fight an enemy with a ranged weapon.

Mechanics
Characters generate a certain number of action points each turn equal to ten times their quickness (QN) value, or QN x 10. Each time a character moves, the character expends some or all of those action points, depending on their movement speed.

Moving consumes a number of action points equal to 100000 ÷ MS.

If your movement speed and your quickness are both equal to 100, this means that you can move exactly once per turn.

Increases in movement speed follows a simple logic based on how much greater it is than the base movespeed of 100. 150 movespeed means that you will move 1.5 times faster than normal. For example, with 100 quickness, you will see the following behavior as your movement speed increases:


 * 100 MS - You move 1 time each turn
 * 120 MS - You move 1.2 times each turn (6 times every 5 turns)
 * 150 MS - You move 1.5 times each turn
 * 180 MS - You move 1.8 times each turn
 * 190 MS - You move 1.9 times each turn
 * 200 MS - You move 2 times each turn

Because of this, negative decreases will have more significant impacts to how often you can move. 50 movespeed means moving 0.5 times a turn, half that of the base movespeed; However, +50 is moving 1.5 times instead of double the movespeed.

Modifying Movement Speed
These things directly modify a character's movement speed, changing the action cost of a single movement, and thus the number of movements the character may take per turn.

Additional Types of Movement
Beyond your movement speed attribute, there are many additional ways to change the speed at which you move, or cause you to move around without directly modifying your movement speed.

Some common examples include:


 * Sprinting
 * Swimming
 * Flying
 * Teleporting
 * Slipping on liquids
 * Standing on conveyers
 * Using skills like Charge, Lunge, or Juke
 * Using items like or

Modding
In XML and the game code, movespeed is stored as a penalty to the base movespeed. This means that it increases when negative numbers are added to the stat. Wishing for  will set the movespeed to the base 100. Setting movespeed to 0 requires wishing it to 100.