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Me and my dad just been wondering - it says the distance travelled through the dungeon is measured in kilometres, but how far is a metre in the dungeon? It's obviously not the width of a single square, or the step-count would match up to the distance-travelled count.
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Post by beowuuf »

I believed one tile = 2m (just over the size of a person lying down) but then that should give a correspnpondance to the step count...
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Yeah is what we thought...doesn't seem to work out if one tile is three metres, either...
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Post by beowuuf »

Oh, unles it's the old D&D convention, one square = 10 feet, which would then convert not quite to 3m, so the kilometer and step count would be out

I wish I could shake the feeling GG has actually said explicitly what the step count /distance ration in another thread - maybe do a search for it?
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I think it's PI meters per step.

Dunno why; I must have been feeling a bit warped the day that bit of code was written :shock:
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Post by beowuuf »

Lol, I was thinking that that would be close to 10 feet = 3meters and thought I was mad!
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I think it's PI meters per step.
Had you been going round a dungeon in circles?
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So, 3.142 metres per step? Lol weird...but okay then, thanks :).
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Post by beowuuf »

There's 0.304m to a foot, so it's almost a good conversion at 0.314m to 10 feet : )
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Post by Lunever »

Anyone seen the film "Pi" ?
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Lunever wrote:Anyone seen the film "Pi" ?
No, but I heard the title is misleading and that the movie is actually about the number "Phi", not "Pi".
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It is about Pi, and it is one of the best films I've ever seen.
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i still have to watch it
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Whats you favourite pi?
I like apple best. With cream.
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