This is a interesting thread, and I'd like to offer a crazy, illogical idea onto which ingame time can be used for role playing purposes. Let us suppose, that in Eorzea, time is actually changing as fast as it suggests. Their universe could very well be Earth hour to Eorzea's Day.
Then let us suppose that the people of Eorzea still age as us humans do. That means that even if a inhabitant of Eorzea is 24 days old, they are still only 1 earth day old. All this would simply mean would be a feat to multiple whatever time's suggested by 24. (this incorporates the hour to days ratio) For example, if the average life span of a character is 100 earth years, you could then multiply it by 24, coming up with a total of 2400 Eorzean years. (my math is off probably, but you get the idea)
This means that your character still gets their wild birthdays (but make every Earth year playing something of a special event. Maybe Eorzea celebrates every 100 years or something, due to the shortened time in their universe).
Here's the problems with the idea though, NPC characters will still address themselves as being X amount of years. You could possibly just multiply it to give a feel for Eorzea years perhaps, but it'd be a pain I know. (Example: 10 years in human time X 24= 240 Eorzea years. This means that the character is still within the suggested amount of years, nearly a tenth of being 100 or 2,400)
I could be very wrong of course, but its a idea. Not a good one but not necessarily bad either, and one that has everyone winning, so to speak, and because Eorzea is not a real world, it could be very likely.
The idea for this comes from my experience in "The Multiverse" styled roleplaying, in which one character actually goes from to different worlds with completely different rules than the ones we are used to. This is often used in "space" roleplays, when they talk about time they often say "Earth Days" because a planet simply has shorter or longer days than ours. So how do you measure it? Relating to what we know, which again is the rough ratio of about 1 Earth hour to 1 day Eorzea.
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Then let us suppose that the people of Eorzea still age as us humans do. That means that even if a inhabitant of Eorzea is 24 days old, they are still only 1 earth day old. All this would simply mean would be a feat to multiple whatever time's suggested by 24. (this incorporates the hour to days ratio) For example, if the average life span of a character is 100 earth years, you could then multiply it by 24, coming up with a total of 2400 Eorzean years. (my math is off probably, but you get the idea)
This means that your character still gets their wild birthdays (but make every Earth year playing something of a special event. Maybe Eorzea celebrates every 100 years or something, due to the shortened time in their universe).
Here's the problems with the idea though, NPC characters will still address themselves as being X amount of years. You could possibly just multiply it to give a feel for Eorzea years perhaps, but it'd be a pain I know. (Example: 10 years in human time X 24= 240 Eorzea years. This means that the character is still within the suggested amount of years, nearly a tenth of being 100 or 2,400)
I could be very wrong of course, but its a idea. Not a good one but not necessarily bad either, and one that has everyone winning, so to speak, and because Eorzea is not a real world, it could be very likely.
The idea for this comes from my experience in "The Multiverse" styled roleplaying, in which one character actually goes from to different worlds with completely different rules than the ones we are used to. This is often used in "space" roleplays, when they talk about time they often say "Earth Days" because a planet simply has shorter or longer days than ours. So how do you measure it? Relating to what we know, which again is the rough ratio of about 1 Earth hour to 1 day Eorzea.
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