Does your delay when modified by haste, round up / down?

[VincentVolaju]

Originally Posted by Rogean [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Your weapon's delay doesn't "become" anything different. Your weapon delay is a contribution, among other variables, to an end result of attack speed. This attack speed is represented in milliseconds. If there's any rounding, it's at the microseconds level.

Ok great, thanks for the clarification <3.

[Rogean]

Speaking of primary loops.. our processes loop at 15.6 milliseconds. So your attack would be delayed by up to that much. Still irrelevant.

[Haynar]

And the best non-metric measure of speed is:

Furlongs per fortnight.

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[Daldaen]

Medical professionals and Engineers fall under the scientist category.

[fadetree]

I agree with Juvento....and its not just because I grew up used to imperial. The metric scales for the most part seem too fine grained and too small to have a good intuitive grasp on. A joule is very small, but a foot pound is macro enough to have an analog in my primitive brain. Of course, this same quality makes metric better for actually doing math.

[myriverse]

Originally Posted by Juevento [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

As someone in a technical field, I hate the metric system. I have absolutely zero frame of reference for metric units (i.e. length, force, pressure, energy, etc). With imperial units I have an innate understanding of what a lbf, psi, btu are.

Having said that milliseconds aren't necessarily metric as they are used in all unit systems.

Frame of reference is familiarity. Once you get the frame of reference, no prob.

Originally Posted by fadetree [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I agree with Juvento....and its not just because I grew up used to imperial. The metric scales for the most part seem too fine grained and too small to have a good intuitive grasp on. A joule is very small, but a foot pound is macro enough to have an analog in my primitive brain. Of course, this same quality makes metric better for actually doing math.

A Joule isn't that much smaller. It's almost 3/4 of a foot-pound. And if ever there is a huge difference, then just increase the size of the unit.

[fadetree]

Man, I'm wrong all over. I thought a joule was teeny. Maybe I'm thinking of erg or something.

[Daldaen]

Pascal, unit of pressure/stress, is one that is extremely small. That's why most pressure readings are in kPa or MPa

[Juevento]

Yeah there is rough an order of magnitude difference between Pa and psi.

Any time I have to think in metric I find myself doing mental conversions to get to the relevant english unit. 1mm = 0.039", 2.54 cm = 1", N = whothefuckevenknows lbf. I think one of the stupid things about metric is that the mass term is extremely prevalent, whereas with imperial units you deal more with weights. To me that's one of the reasons it is more useful for everyday (earth-based) work.

[myriverse]

Originally Posted by Juevento [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah there is rough an order of magnitude difference between Pa and psi.

Any time I have to think in metric I find myself doing mental conversions to get to the relevant english unit. 1mm = 0.039", 2.54 cm = 1", N = whothefuckevenknows lbf. I think one of the stupid things about metric is that the mass term is extremely prevalent, whereas with imperial units you deal more with weights. To me that's one of the reasons it is more useful for everyday (earth-based) work.

Conversions are always a bitch. That's just a very good reason to convert.

mms to inches - I see that as an inherent flaw in the Imperial system. Inches just aren't quite fine enough. There needs to be something smaller.

Kilograms work just as well as pounds on Earth, and better if not on Earth.

And don't get me started on all of that horrible cup/pint/gallon/teaspoon/Tbsp crap. I grew up with that shit, and it still pisses me off.