What is a turn?
ToME 4 uses both turns and action speed in its terminology, and it's confusing me.
Is one turn a set amount of game time (e.g. 2.6 seconds), an abstract "as long as it takes one to act" kind of deal, or something else entirely? This is extremely important, because it heavily affects how I should interact with timed effects.
For example, if I get a buff that lasts 10 turns, will increasing my action speed burn through the effect faster (because I take my 10 actions sooner), or get me more its use (because I can take more actions over the effect's fixed duration)?
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Essentially, a turn is "however long your action takes". In particular, it is independent of real time - you can let the game sit as long as you want, and it will wait for you. More precisely (after skimming the source code), various actions take different amounts of energy. The actors, including your character, gain some energy (how much depends on factors such as their speed) on each internal tick. When you have accumulated enough energy to do something, the game pauses (i.e. no more ticks) until you have acted.
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You're on the right track: each action takes a fixed amount of time. In the very basic sense they are 0 (instant) or 1 turn.
Then you get into modifiers. Say your movement speed is 120% of normal and a creature is at 100%. You'll move 12 tiles for every 10 that he moves, meaning you can eventually outrun him.
To your latter example, you get more actions per turn. It's very noticeable with a Movement infusion (where you might get 400 or 500% movement speed). Watch the monsters as you run away.
Global speed works the same way but also applies to attacking, casting and all other actions you might take, and stacks up with movement speed.
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