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How to count time, years , date ...

Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 5:15 am
by tribunal
So , the one of the things that i would really like to know about this server is how you count the time, date and years . As i figured out :

spells that have duration like - 1 hour, 10 minutes, 60 seconds, 6 seconds etc. - they are counting normally as real life seconds

After PvP you avoid that player for 24, ( real ) hours if you lost ...

But how do you count one day in the game and one year in the game ? Time in the game as well , changes of day and night?

Re: How to count time, years , date ...

Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 5:27 am
by Deathgrowl
Mechanical purposes seconds and minutes are the same as RL on spell durations. Hours on spell durations are 5 minutes IG.

For RP purposes:
Hour RL = Hour IG
Day RL = Day IG
Week RL = Tenday IG
Month RL = Month IG
Year RL = Year IG

Unless otherwise stated by DMs.

Re: How to count time, years , date ...

Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 6:01 am
by tribunal
Thx ! =))

So it is mostly RL= IG ratio

Good to know that for rp ...

Re: How to count time, years , date ...

Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 9:02 am
by Heartfilia
Just keep in mind that if you say "good evening" at 21:00 but the sun is rising in game you will have to listen to the obligatory "Evening? Have you lost your mind? It's the six in the morning!" RP. :roll:

Considering OOC time is the same as IC time, we really should be ignoring the day/night cycle and picking a certain time zone (the most convenient probably being GMT) to base what we are RPing the time of day to be.

But that's just me being nitpicky. :lol:

Re: How to count time, years , date ...

Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 12:36 pm
by Hoihe
dlnorthc wrote:Just keep in mind that if you say "good evening" at 21:00 but the sun is rising in game you will have to listen to the obligatory "Evening? Have you lost your mind? It's the six in the morning!" RP. :roll:

Considering OOC time is the same as IC time, we really should be ignoring the day/night cycle and picking a certain time zone (the most convenient probably being GMT) to base what we are RPing the time of day to be.

But that's just me being nitpicky. :lol:

I prefer retconning to never being able to RP at night/Daylight :P

Re: How to count time, years , date ...

Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 7:57 pm
by tribunal
dlnorthc wrote:Just keep in mind that if you say "good evening" at 21:00 but the sun is rising in game you will have to listen to the obligatory "Evening? Have you lost your mind? It's the six in the morning!" RP. :roll:


Yeap ! Happened to me few times too , so now I always think twice before i say '' good evening'' or '' good day'' to someone :lol:

But wait, i have one more question .
You said that we are counting the years in the ratio RL= IC . But, for example , i started to play last year in this time with my toon who was 23 years old . And for all this time years has been changed for more than 3 years ( IC ) or something like that ... ( not sure for how much to be honest, but it is more than 1 year i am totally sure about that ) So, how much is older my character now ?

Re: How to count time, years , date ...

Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 9:40 pm
by Heartfilia
Your toon would be 24 now.

Last year was 1349, this year is 1350. Once again you have to ignore whatever the in game clock tells you. :)

Re: How to count time, years , date ...

Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 10:46 pm
by DM Setanta

Re: How to count time, years , date ...

Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 8:47 am
by tribunal
Ow ! I got it all now . Thx ! :)