Travel Parents

Horse Parent: Chia
The Horse Parent on Chia is dbref #29133, and is designed to work hand in hand with +travel 2.0, as implemented.

It contains all of the base functions of a horse, and is largely self-explanitory; these notes represent what the default attributes and the overrides mean, and how they are used on the children.

Horse Attributes
A horse is defined by the following attributes:

&DB`Temprament:

From -2 to +2, ranging from 'Hates people' to 'loves small children and fuzzy animals.' A default horse should use +2.

This affects riding difficulty: at +2, Trot will never fail at a Poor horseback riding skill, and Gallop will never fail at a Fair riding skill. Adjusting this number /down/ moves the bar up that far - setting a +1 will move those targets to Mediocre and Good, respectively. At a 0, Trotting takes a Fair, Galloping a Great, at -2, Trotting Good, Galloping Legendary.

Setting a horse below temprament -2 means that not even the best riders possible have any real chances of staying in the saddle all the time, and isn't reccomended. Going above +2 might be appropriate for donkeys or other excceedingly gentle beasts of burden.

&DB`Stamina:

How fast the horse burns its hunger - how 'efficient' it is. This ranges from 0 to 2, with a 0 being a lazy, fat hayburner that's starving after ten minutes out of the stable, while a 2 represents a sleek /machine/.

Stamina is of high importance for long travel times (see the formula section below.)

&DB`Speed:

How fast the horse /is/. Like stamina, it is either 0 (slow), 1 (Average), or 2 (Fast).

See the math section for how this affects travel times.

Speed and Attribute Formulae
An average horse moves at the following defaults, measured in Travel Ratio (Seconds per Minute of Default Travel Time):

Walk: 60 Trot: 30 Gallop: 15

Note that this /is/ slightly slower than the 1.5 parent, but foot run speed has also been changed slightly to reflect a wider gradient.

A /fast/ horse moves precisely twice as fast /except in walking speed/:

Walk: 60 Trot: 15 Gallop: 7

A slow horse moves 1.5 times as fast:

Walk: 60 Trot: 45 Gallop: 22.

Stamina costs are similar:

Walk: 0 Trot: Gallop: 20