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increase default speed of the whole game by 1.5 #88

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opened 2026-08-21 22:30:48 +00:00 by metaheavens · 1 comment
metaheavens commented 2026-08-21 22:30:48 +00:00
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metaheavens commented 2026-08-22 00:35:10 +00:00
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Done in 3f5e7ac, live at https://metaheavens.de/spaceship/

Fleet cruise speed, every vessel's max_speed and acceleration, and every enemy's speed and acceleration, all × 1.5.

Two things kept deliberate rather than convenient:

  • Enemies scaled too. Speeding up only the player would have been a difficulty cut wearing a tempo change.
  • Acceleration scaled alongside speed. The handling tuned in #77 is a ratio between the two - raising speed alone would have quietly undone it and made the fleet feel heavy again.

Two tests had assertions that were really about one balance pass rather than about behaviour: test_enemy_mothership pinned a literal speed of 35.0 and now compares against the chaser, which is what "never reaches ramming speed" actually means; test_planet_atmosphere_transition flew far enough at the new speed to reach the landed garrison, and now clears it, since that test is about the handoff and not about a fight it never meant to pick.

Done in 3f5e7ac, live at https://metaheavens.de/spaceship/ Fleet cruise speed, every vessel's `max_speed` and `acceleration`, and every enemy's speed and acceleration, all × 1.5. Two things kept deliberate rather than convenient: - **Enemies scaled too.** Speeding up only the player would have been a difficulty cut wearing a tempo change. - **Acceleration scaled alongside speed.** The handling tuned in #77 is a ratio between the two - raising speed alone would have quietly undone it and made the fleet feel heavy again. Two tests had assertions that were really about one balance pass rather than about behaviour: `test_enemy_mothership` pinned a literal speed of 35.0 and now compares against the chaser, which is what "never reaches ramming speed" actually means; `test_planet_atmosphere_transition` flew far enough at the new speed to reach the landed garrison, and now clears it, since that test is about the handoff and not about a fight it never meant to pick.
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