Tick Length

WillieTheron · March 22, 2021, 8:43pm

Hey,

This was not immediately clear from the actual documentations but roughly how long is a tick?

Need to factor that in on my end.

clbuttic · March 22, 2021, 9:17pm

That’s in the game engine config, called TickRate, currently 100 ms.

EntelectChallenge/2021-Galaxio/blob/1c73d3f99aeb921f817d6c4853e0a3675d203778/game-engine/Engine/appsettings.json#L5


{
  "RunnerUrl": "http://localhost",
  "RunnerPort": "5000",
  "BotCount": 4,
  "TickRate": 100,
  "MaxRounds": 1000,
  "MapRadius": 1000,
  "MapRadiusRatio": 250,
  "StartRadius": 300,
  "StartRadiusRatio": 75,
  "StartingPlayerSize": 10,
  "MinimumPlayerSize": 5,
  "ConsumptionRatio": {
    "1": 0.5,
    "3": 0.5

ibvs · March 23, 2021, 7:00am

Thank you for the response Nicolas, that is correct.