I don't really have my characters cleave that closely to the MSQ. If new things have happened, such as the opening of Ishgard, I obviously try to pay some tribute to that... but I feel the RP "time bubble" is quite a bit different from the MSQ's. In the MSQ it's only been a year or so between 2.0 to 3.0. However 2.0 has been around for... what, two years now? So, that's still two years of possible RP time that has happened.
Rather than twist myself into knots in trying to figure out the temporal discrepancies, I'm sticking to one year real time = one year RP time. So, to me, Tier is still 29, Luri is still 30, and Leilani is still 16 (we even had a big event for that one!). And Chachan will be 17 at the end of October, and will be 18 next year regardless of any other major MSQ time-skewing.
After all, if you stuck purely to IG time... you go through how many days in the span of one real day? Five? Ten? I don't know the specific math behind it (and I don't think I really want to delve into it), but that means that Eorzea has progressed the equivalent of (sticking a random number there) six months our time, if that. Which also conflicts with having birthdays that correlate to dates in real-time.
We already handwave the accelerated Eorzean Time for days, so why not years? Especially if it's something as minor as "is my character a year or two years older"? It's not like you're trying to say that some inconceivable amount of time passed between when you started and now (like a Naruto timeskip or something).
Basically, if you have RPed them going through the two real years as two RP years, stick to it. You RPed that time and it's better to just stick to that rather than bend over backwards for the MSQ time-bubble. I don't think anyone will fault you for it.
Rather than twist myself into knots in trying to figure out the temporal discrepancies, I'm sticking to one year real time = one year RP time. So, to me, Tier is still 29, Luri is still 30, and Leilani is still 16 (we even had a big event for that one!). And Chachan will be 17 at the end of October, and will be 18 next year regardless of any other major MSQ time-skewing.
After all, if you stuck purely to IG time... you go through how many days in the span of one real day? Five? Ten? I don't know the specific math behind it (and I don't think I really want to delve into it), but that means that Eorzea has progressed the equivalent of (sticking a random number there) six months our time, if that. Which also conflicts with having birthdays that correlate to dates in real-time.
We already handwave the accelerated Eorzean Time for days, so why not years? Especially if it's something as minor as "is my character a year or two years older"? It's not like you're trying to say that some inconceivable amount of time passed between when you started and now (like a Naruto timeskip or something).
Basically, if you have RPed them going through the two real years as two RP years, stick to it. You RPed that time and it's better to just stick to that rather than bend over backwards for the MSQ time-bubble. I don't think anyone will fault you for it.
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