So it was xp/time basically.

And thanks for the recognition, Syncope.

How many different times did you load maps? Were you measuring just one trip?

I'll also dig through the code a little more to see if I can spot something useful.

edit:

RMS functions dealing with trade routes, nothing to set the xp rate as far as i can tell.
http://hyenastudios.mugamo.com/aoe3rmstutorial.htm#II8

[This message has been edited by Flammifer (edited 06-13-2006 @ 10:48 PM).]

New England
1:09
1:45
2:21
2:51

40xp - 1.1 xp/sec

Rockies
0:48
1:36
2:23
3:12

53xp - 1.1 xp/sec

Great Plains
1:46
3:18
4:50
6:23

130xp - 1.4 xp/sec

At the very least the rate is fixed on each seperatly generated random map. However there seems to be some variation from map to map. Perhaps there is some bit of a relationship to the length of the route and the average rate on that map. I think going to some larger maps could help examin this a bit more closely.

edit, few additional tests
2plr lrg great plains
2:25
4:34

175xp - 1.4 xp/sec

8plr lrg great plains

4:29
8:32

290xp - 1.2 xp/sec

I'm begining to thing there's simply another random factor involved that somehow correlates to the nature of the trade routes. Saguenay has two distinct trade route configurations, and seems like a good place to do somemore work on.

[This message has been edited by Flammifer (edited 06-14-2006 @ 00:04 AM).]

the number of TP also varies on different maps, and stays the same on some.

I discovered a few interesting things. One discovery involves different versions of the same map. It appears as if no matter how a map spawns, a trading post on that map still generates more or less the same xp per minute.

For example, when I was testing the Great Plains map, I got three different spawns. One tp generated 132 xp per circuit, one generated 131 xp per circuit, and another generated 122 xp per circuit. Their xp per second rates came out to 1.26, 1.25, and 1.22 respectively

In addition, I found the xp per second rates of Carolina, Great Lakes, Great Plains, New England, and Yukon.

Carolina: 1.08 xp per minute
Great Lakes: 1.15 xp per minute
Great Plains: 1.24 xp per minute
New England: 1.03 xp per minute
Yukon: 1.14 xp per minute

Also, as Flammifer pointed out, this applies to 1v1 sized maps, as a map is larger if more people are playing on it.

I'll add more maps later.

[This message has been edited by radradrobotanks (edited 06-14-2006 @ 03:37 AM).]

and now it really does look like the intended rate should be the same, but something is causing a small change. Remember how farmers on one side of the tc would gather faster than those on the other in AoK? I might veture a guess that the length of the trade route is having an effect. Possily something to do with the cart reappearing on the other side of the map?

New England has one of the shortest routes, while great plains on of the longest. If Sonora has a similar rate it would support this idea. And the best test I can think of is the different routes on saguenay.