Duck and Cover

Just wondering if anyone had figured out how to change the speed of movement on the world map yet?

No, I don't think so. But I haven't read everything here in the past 6 months myself. But I still don't think its been figured out. About the only thing you can do to the world map is change it, and even then you can't code in restricted areas (water/ocean).

i bet theres a dead simple way to do it. Maybe its layers or alpha channels etc like the sprites. oh well,

That's what I believe the editor readme says. But applying an alpha channel to the world map, from what I've heard, does nothing.

No, last we determined the areas of the map where you could not travel was hard-coded into the engine. It wasn't a function of the alpha layers. I tried many ways to attack that and none of them worked.