Character speed decreasing and increasing

As most will probably already know, you can easily change the speed and frequency of characters in the game using simple events, or (I wager) with scripts. However, there are only 6 speeds to choose from. My question is this:

How would I go about using a 4.1 speed for example?
I'd like it for using call scripts, and being able to use it in conditional branches.

(I'm making a minigame where you race against an NPC - speed is of big matter here!)

First we need a way to access and write to the move speed.
This basically means that you should copy and paste the following code somewhere above main in the script editor.

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class Game_Character
  attr_accessor :move_speed
end

After this you can set the movement speed through script calls

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$game_player.move_speed = 4.5 # Set it to 4.5
$game_player.move_speed -= 0.1 # Decrease by 0.1
$game_player.move_speed += 0.1 # Increase by 0.1


For conditional branch you can put something like this in the script part:

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$game_player.move_speed > 4.5

This will check if the movement speed is above 4.5. If not, then the else branch is run instead (if it exists).

The comparisons you can are:

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>  # Greater than
>= # Greater than or equals
== # Equals
<= # Less than or equals
<  # Less than
!= # Not equals


I hope this is enough for you to figure out the rest

*hugs*
 - Zeriab

GREAT! Thanks! Exactly what I needed.