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Old 08-09-2005, 09:05 PM
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It's actually pretty easy to tell if someone is modifiying their speed with a program, if you yourself are used to seeing people normally move.

Graal does have a set run speed.

What causes people to appear to move faster is either lagbursts, CPU speed (only effects it if their CPU is slow, probably only noticable under 800 mhz),or the style they move in.

If two people with similar computers, one with DSL and one with a good 56k connection (not lagbursting) run in a straight line frrom point A---->B, they should arrive at the same time.

However, I believe on graal, running in a diagonal covers a greater amount of total distance than running in a straight line.

So if player X runs in a straight line for X seconds, they travel less total pixels across the screen than if they ran in a diagonal line for the same amount of time. This would cause a player who moves on diagonals a lot to appear much faster.


But, no player should be able to literally run another down in a spar if his opponent is moving at a normal speed.
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