Feedback Mammoth Tank Killtime Survey

[OWA]

Hi guys. I have a question for you.

I'm trying to understand the way that the original Red Alert works and I want to know something.

"On the medium speed setting of the game, how long does it take for a Mammoth Tank to kill another a Mammoth Tank in seconds?"

I'm currently working on visualising the balance data from RA1 and am using the Mammoth Tank as my control group. I would like to know how long (in seconds) Mammoth Tank A takes to kill Mammoth Tank B if Mammoth Tank A force fires on Mammoth Tank B from this position:

I'm want to know this because I want to know whether my own control is accurate, or whether the Medium speed setting varies from player to player.

To do this, just load a skirmish game of Red Alert as Soviets with lots of starting units and get your Mammoth Tank to fire on another using the force-fire command (Ctrl+LMB). You can get Red Alert from https://cncnet.org/red-alert

Cheers!

[Maraneshi]

Tested on 3 different maps, it always takes pretty much exactly 28 seconds.

[Blujet]

Your control should be accurate, as the speed should not vary from player to player due to medium speed capping the frame rate at 20 fps. (assuming it's running at the framerate cap.)

[GaryOak]

Tested it once for ya, came up with 26:33. Though I manually timed it by using my cellphone.

EDIT: I did not have any space  between the mammoths during that first test. I retested with 1 space between them like in your screenshot, and I came up with 26:50. Again, manual timing.

The difference with Dghelneshi could offcourse be caused by the timing of the exact moment we start and stop timing (I've tried to start as I click to start the force fire, and stop when the final shot lands and Mammoth B's explosion begins)

Edited January 13, 2019 by GaryOak