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SavourDelay

Delay, in minutes, between a house's fate being decided and it being carried out.

Specification
Applies to
global rules
File
rules.ini
Section
[AudioVisual]
Value
floating point
When omitted
.03
rules.ini
[AudioVisual]
SavourDelay=.03

SavourDelay sets how long a house waits between being flagged to win, lose or blow up and that result taking effect. The value is in minutes of game time: it is multiplied by 900 frames and truncated. Left unset, the delay is 27 game frames, just under two seconds at 15 frames a second. SavourDelay=.03 written in the file gives 26 frames, because a value read from the file is stored at slightly lower precision.

When the countdown ends, the result takes effect: the win, the loss, or the destruction of everything the house owns. In a campaign mission a win can wait longer, as The win sequence describes.

The countdown starts when the fate is decided, with these exceptions:

  • The Announce Win and Announce Lose trigger actions do not start it.
  • A house already flagged for a fate ignores a later flag to win or to blow up, and its first countdown continues.
  • A flag to lose cancels a pending win and starts a new countdown. It is ignored when the house is already flagged to lose or to blow up.

In a multiplayer game other than skirmish, the countdown is lengthened so that every machine ends the game on the same frame. It is first raised to at least the number of frames each machine runs ahead of the others. It is then extended to end on a frame number divisible by ten.