Time

[Dilihin]

So the game has a ingame time. However, as you might have noticed, there is not a proper nor easily accessible in game time calendar and clock (and the time is stalled in the same year, too.) how about putting something like, a time converter and calendar in the main page or something?

[LigH]

You must have missed several threads about this topic posted over the last years...

Most important, time in Yliakum does not progress linearly in relation to real world time. You have several in-game days per real-world day when referring to a time, but still one date per date when comparing calendars only. The clock starts when the server is started, which may happen after an update or after a crash, so you can't reliably predict an in-game time. A calendar conversion should be available in the Wiki already.

[Dilihin]

Wiki doesn't have a handy time converter, which was the point.And besides there is only told how the calendar works, but there is not a readable calendar.

[Rigwyn]

I wonder if it would have been easier to just pin the in game clock to a given time zone and use real world time.

[LigH]

Well, usually it makes sense to have the in-game time run faster than the real world time, to avoid that people in one timezone always have to play in the same in-game daytime when they always play during the same real-world daytime. Let's assume they all play in the afternoons or evenings of their timezone (after coming back from work, school, etc.), but in game, some would always play in in-game mornings, some always in in-game nights... depending on the timezone difference to the server time. How inconvenient. Especially when NPCs might have a daily cycle related to the in-game daytime ... oh wait, that already happened, NPCs started to "go home at night", remember? Now they don't enter their homes anymore.