(11-19-2015, 01:19 PM)Thunderbolt300 Wrote: Wow, thanks y'all! Some really great answers here!Â
One more question for now, at least- this one is much more minor but as I'm planning out my character, it popped into my head.
How do most people handle the time of day in-game? I noticed there's a game world clock, a server clock, and a real world clock. The night-day cycle is pretty striking and even city music changes depending on what time it is. Do people RP according to the time of day in the game world, or is it more by the server / real world clock? Or does it mostly just get ignored?
Depends on who you're RPing with! and their timezones, sometimes.
An in-game day is pretty short. But that's also because a variety of in-game mechniacs are adjusted by day/weather (like fishing).
For the most part, I kinda plan out my RP a little bit. So I might start a RP scene saying "it's the morning" or "it's the evening" or "Franz was having lunch" to give a vague time of day. But I've RPed with people who have a 12 hour difference than me (literally the other side of the world). ...the in-game day would be too short, and what might be "night" for me, could be someone else's morning.
But sometimes, these things are taken into account. Maybe I want a scene with a sunset, or rain, or some other aspect of the environment changing. When I get into a RP groove, it can go on for hours, IRL. So for me, the time/weather setting gets ignored unless I need it to be a certain way.
