Volley Speed

[Lucjan]

Is it possible to alter the amount of time between each volley with missile units, in order to change the firing rate?

[KnightErrant]

Try this and see if it works: Edit the export_descr_unit.txt file
and search for the archer unit you are interested in. Find this
line

stat_pri         6, 1, arrow, 120, 25, missile, missile_mechanical, piercing, none, 25, 1

The comments at the top of this file say that the next to last entry,
the one I colored blue, is the time between attacks in tenths of a
second. So if this works for missile units 25 means they shoot every
2.5 seconds. Try changing this to 100 and see if they slow down
a lot. Haven't tried this myself so its only a suggestion.

[Foz]

No, it's not. I tried this for a different thread, and neither the delay in the archer's attack line, nor the fire_delay stat later on in the unit definition, had any effect whatsoever. I think the default value of 25 is locked in the code and ignored in the file entirely, as every unit I've seen has 25 in that spot.

[gropro]

stat_pri 6, 1, arrow, 120, 25, missile, missile_mechanical, piercing, none, -500, 0.2

Note last two values. Dunno why, but its working.

[Lucjan]

So it is possible to change the volley speeds then?

Could somebody else verify this? I'm not at a comp right now with M2 on it. I'll check it as soon as I can though.

Some fiddling with the animations and volley speeds could potentially allow us to include units with automatic weaponry without them looking terrible.

[gropro]

I found those things in darthmod. For e.g. before my musketeers had shot 3 rounds before swiss pikemans got them. After that change pikemens are dead in about 100 metres of their marching. Its just much faster :)