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[Elmer]

After some chat with Remco, I encountered for me conflicting information about the movement and notation of trade/move factors.

The trade fleet page state that every single needs to be counted, with modifiers applied.
The Military fleet page state that a fleet can move 1.0 per , and modifiers are applicable on this. This means that a fleet cannot move from one default to another default , as this requires a movement of 2.0.

This confuses me.

So the way I think a fleet can move is by calculating not a , but from one to another. So the movement from sector (0 0) to (0 -1) cost 1.0 . If one of the sectors has a quality 2 hyperspace lane, than the movement cost 0.5 . But this is not how the wiki says how tradefleets are calculated. So I am confused.

What is the correct way to calculate trade/movement factors?

[Brend]

You are right. I'll think on this, but my first hunch is that they should have 2.0 movement (just like scanning fleets).

[Mercury]

I thought about this, but I guess a movement of 2 makes sense...

[Brend]

I shall implement this update this weekend.

[Elmer]

In that case I have to confess that I have miscalculated the required trade capacity some/all the time. I used the 'from one to another ' calculations. Although I did use the highest costing instead of the lowest trade cost, so I consistently calculated 0.1 to low. I did a quick check of my trade history and concluded that I almost every time had a overcapacity of , so this mistake should be of little impact, but I have not checked everything to make sure yet.

Though some trades, like my trade to the Veolian Commonwealth are correctly calculated, so I have no idea how many trades I have accidentally cheated.

[Mercury]

When I Have Time (tm) I'll make a tool which can calculate the correct length of a route. Should be easy to do and require very little code. I might not get to it for a while though.

[Brend]

Elmer and I have updated the rules for this.

[Mercury]

Yay!