Make land/navy formations move instantly instead of row-by-row

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Description of the proposed changes

This is a very simple lua change: in formations.lua there is a number formationLength added to every FormationPos[i][4] in BlockBuilderLand. This variable is of type int and is essentially a movement delay. We can set it to always be 0 and then units in all formation rows move instantly like in the video.

formation.instamove.mp4

Testing done on the proposed changes

Move some large formations around.
These commands, executable from clipboard, helps see the pathfinding:

ConExecute('dbg navs')
ConExecute('dbg navp')

Checklist

• Changes are annotated, including comments where useful -- See Annotate formations.lua #7259
• Changes are documented in a changelog snippet according to the guidelines.
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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Balance Changes
  • Land and naval unit formations now pause movement after every 10th row instead of after each row.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Formation movement timing now uses a delay after every 10th row instead of every row. BlockBuilderLand stores formationLength / 10, and the changelog documents the updated land and naval formation behavior.

Changes

Formation movement timing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Update formation delay calculation lua/formations.lua, changelog/snippets/balance.7251.md	BlockBuilderLand now stores formationLength / 10 for the formation delay value. The changelog records the updated movement interval.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~5 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a10c3

The change reduces row-by-row movement delays, but naval and submarine formations use an incorrect delay scale because spacing data is included in the calculation. This can leave those formations moving differently from the intended behavior, so the delay calculation should be corrected before merge.

Suggested reviewers: ostrovaya

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the land and naval formation movement change. It slightly overstates the implementation because movement is delayed after every tenth row rather than made fully instant.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes the change summary, testing steps, and checklist. It omits the optional Additional context section and leaves reviewer assignment unchecked, but it is otherwise sufficiently c…
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 1 files. (1 skipped: 1 …
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 1 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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Inline comments:
In `@lua/formations.lua`:
- Line 941: Update the delay calculation at the formation-building logic near
formationLength / 10 to derive its value from the row count, using rowNum - 1 or
a separate row counter instead of formationLength. Preserve formationLength for
the Y-coordinate calculation and retain the documented every-tenth-row behavior
for naval and submarine formations.

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