Movement question in Simulatanous game (PBW)

[PvK]

Depends on rounding. 30 days / 7 sectors per month = Movement on day ~4.2. 30 / 6 = He moves on day 5. So if it rounds down and has you move on day 4, then you'll meet them and should fight on day 5. If it rounds up, you'll both move on day 5 and not fight, but you'll next move on day 8-9, while he won't move again until day 10, so you should catch whoever you targetted by day 8-9, but he could have split into several directions by then.

There can also be some highly obnoxious effects of the bad pathfinding for interceptors, but in an adjacent case as you describe, I believe it would be like one of the two situations I descibed.

PvK

[1FSTCAT]

We're getting closer and closer to the final answer.

The question is, do I get rounded up to 5, or down to 4?

--Ed

[Slynky]

PvK is right (and this assumes I was right), I think. In general terms, early in the game with slower engines, fights are more likely. But when ships start moving at 10, 11, and 12 sectors, it's harder to find yourself in the same sector on the day that is scheduled for combat because ships move more often and spend less time in a given sector.

[AMF]

Here, from the FAQ:

6.8.3 Ship moves on different days during the turn depending upon their speed capacity. (The 'movement day' is the day that the ship ends up in a new sector.):
Spd Movement Days
02: 15, 30
03: 10, 20, 30
04: 7, 15, 22, 30
05: 6, 12, 18, 24, 30
06: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30
07: 4, 8, 12, 17, 21, 25, 30
08: 3, 7, 11, 14, 18, 22, 26, 29,
09: 3, 6, 10, 13, 16, 20, 23, 26, 30
10: 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 23, 26, 29,
11: 2, 5, 8, 10, 13, 16, 19, 21, 24, 27, 30
12: 2, 4, 7, 9, 12, 14, 17, 19, 22, 24, 27, 29
13: 2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13, 16, 18, 20, 23, 25, 27, 29
A graphical representation of this table can be found here in this thread.. (Quikngruvn)

Originally posted by 1FSTCAT:
We're getting closer and closer to the final answer.

The question is, do I get rounded up to 5, or down to 4?

--Ed

[Grandpa Kim]

The data Alarikf pulled from the FAQ is essentially correct, but I have had fleets move on day one and continue moving one or two days early for the entire month. For instance, a speed 10 fleet would make its first move on day one and its Last move on day 28.