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RE: Aging Up Your Character - Unnamed Mercenary - 02-02-2015
I think I'm in line with the three Highlanders above me.
I set an eorzean year for Franz's birth, and then struggle to recalculate his age if asked OOCly. IC, we don't even know if most common people know what year they were born. For this sake, I usually just say "he's about 40". Vague enough to not have to deal with actual details, but close enough to work for a character who doesn't actually know his birthday. He makes general assumptions on when it would need to be, based of life events he does remember.
RE: Aging Up Your Character - Stormwind - 02-02-2015
I'm with Warren on this one. I've given Alexander a round-about age, but haven't really paid to much attention to it. If SE ever comes out and says how much time has passed, I'll move that sliding scale up as necessary.
RE: Aging Up Your Character - FreelanceWizard - 02-02-2015
I play a little fast and loose with it, more or less how Warren handles it. I do iterate L'yhta's age on her nameday, but if SE says only one year has passed when 3.0 drops, I'll just make adjustments to her as necessary to maintain continuity (for instance, I can easily adjust when she left her tribe).
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RE: Aging Up Your Character - Tiergan - 02-02-2015
I age my characters by real life year, but rewind the clock if SE is all "HEY SO EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED BEFORE THE EXPAC TOTALLY TOOK ONE YEAR OK."
They did have an in-game memorial moment for the year anniversary of the Calamity during the summer so I wonder if to SE a year has passed.
RE: Aging Up Your Character - C'kayah Polaali - 02-02-2015
I age my characters like fine bourbon, in oak casks!
Seriously, I do it by calendar year. It's not perfect, but it works.
RE: Aging Up Your Character - Caspar - 02-02-2015
I try not to think about it too much >_< Time passes in weird ways in rp and scenes can be interrupted or paused.
If there was any particular rule I would follow, I probably would age the character one year per real world year.
RE: Aging Up Your Character - Gegenji - 02-02-2015
I actually aged Chachan DOWN early on in his story, which led to this whole thing about him lying (terribly) about his age!
As for aging him up, I think most folks have mentioned how I'd do it. Celebrate his Nameday if folks want to make an event out of it (which the little guy would love)... and then tick him up unless given lore says otherwise. I would figure Heavensward will at least either have an appropriate passing of time to match an expansion... but who knows.
Fortunately, Chachan has only been around for a couple months so far, so I haven't quite had to worry about the passing of years yet. Just lamenting the time-based rewards I have either yet to get or are unable to get.
RE: Aging Up Your Character - Verad - 02-02-2015
I roll a d100 every month and if it is below a certain number, he dies of old age. This number increases every year.
The clock is ticking.
RE: Aging Up Your Character - Marisa - 02-02-2015
(02-02-2015, 04:37 PM)Verad Wrote: I roll a d100 every month and if it is below a certain number, he dies of old age. This number increases every year.
The clock is ticking.
That's pretty hardcore. I always roll like a 2, so I'd be a dozen characters in by now...
RE: Aging Up Your Character - Chillsmack - 02-02-2015
It'd be great if SE gave us an up-to-date timeline. As much as the protagonist does in the MSQ so far I would hope this hasn't all happened within the span of a year lol although I'll admit that until we do get an official date Doendraga will be unaging like a vampire/Nicholas Cage
RE: Aging Up Your Character - ArmachiA - 02-03-2015
I kinda do a mix of both. I'll age them if it's relevant to a story, but mostly I'll wait for the MSQ. Or age them and then retcon it later if the MSQ and her age don't line up. Currently, Armi is 24, but when she started the game she was 23. If the game considered all of this stuff to have happened with 6 months, I'll roll her back to 23.
RE: Aging Up Your Character - K'nahli - 02-03-2015
I honestly don't know how to handle this. My main character in particular is at a relatively young age(17) so I feel that each and every year counts significantly and I have RP'd her sooooooo little in the grand scheme of things. I don't know if I want to consider she is 18 yet even if her second birthday will be coming up later this year.
I haven't spoken to my friend on this but I imagine she feels the same.... *goes to ask*
Edit:
*is stupid*
Quote:I don't age my characters in real time. That'd make no sense, considering I can be stuck in the same scene for weeks or even months.
I might only age them if I consider that the story moved forward to that point, but the story has not, so both Clover and K'mih are the same age than the day they were created (18 and 16).
RE: Aging Up Your Character - Dimona - 02-03-2015
I've only been around for a few months, but there have been a few months worth of adventures, explorations, odd jobs, meeting new people, etc. Things seem to flow at a normal day-to-day pace so I think when her nameday comes around I will age her up from 21 to 22! The 1:1 time relationship seems to work pretty well for me anyway.
RE: Aging Up Your Character - Kinono - 02-03-2015
I find the fact that most people tend to disregard the MSQ in regards to story but still rely on it for reference of flow of time interesting and confusing. I'd definitely argue that in-game events are more reliable a reference, since we've been told that at least a year has already passed according to them, and the only thing we've gotten from the MSQ is vagueness, but alas.
RE: Aging Up Your Character - Aya - 02-03-2015
I guess I use real time as a basic guage. Â Sometimes games have time skips and then you just go with the flow