Wrote a long post but it got gobbled up.
The gist was twofold so I'll try to summarize what I had written:
1. As Aysun pointed out, any inconsistency between people who choose to compress everything pre-ARR into 1572 and people who choose to "push back" the start of adventuring time to 1570 is going to be pretty negligable. I'm not sure anyone would really nitpick specific dates and such, and rather than referencing a specific timeframe, more abstract methods like "Remember when...?" can easily be used to circumvent this.
2. What may be a bit more of a concern for folks is the passage of time (or lack thereof) post-ARR. I know a majority of RPers right now haven't been RPing since the game's launch back in 2010 and compressing events into one year may not be such a detrimental thing, but the LoreBomb that was recently posted suggested that the passage of time would be more or less halted for the sake of in-game story incidents, so presumably after the launch of ARR we'll be perpetually locked into the year 1577. Consider if you RP for five years, will it be feasable to have all of entirety of your character's RP life taking place inside only that one year?
For myself I'm doing something like this:
2010 == 1570
2011 == 1571
2012 == 1572 (Dalamud impact)
2013 == 1577 (after the 5-year gap)
2014 == 1578
2015 == 1579
etc. etc.
But I don't think this is the right way of doing things, nor do I think compressing the time for anyone that chooses to do that is wrong - I just think this is probably the most graceful way to explain the passage of time and character development appropriately, so that is my choice. *shrugs*
The gist was twofold so I'll try to summarize what I had written:
1. As Aysun pointed out, any inconsistency between people who choose to compress everything pre-ARR into 1572 and people who choose to "push back" the start of adventuring time to 1570 is going to be pretty negligable. I'm not sure anyone would really nitpick specific dates and such, and rather than referencing a specific timeframe, more abstract methods like "Remember when...?" can easily be used to circumvent this.
2. What may be a bit more of a concern for folks is the passage of time (or lack thereof) post-ARR. I know a majority of RPers right now haven't been RPing since the game's launch back in 2010 and compressing events into one year may not be such a detrimental thing, but the LoreBomb that was recently posted suggested that the passage of time would be more or less halted for the sake of in-game story incidents, so presumably after the launch of ARR we'll be perpetually locked into the year 1577. Consider if you RP for five years, will it be feasable to have all of entirety of your character's RP life taking place inside only that one year?
For myself I'm doing something like this:
2010 == 1570
2011 == 1571
2012 == 1572 (Dalamud impact)
2013 == 1577 (after the 5-year gap)
2014 == 1578
2015 == 1579
etc. etc.
But I don't think this is the right way of doing things, nor do I think compressing the time for anyone that chooses to do that is wrong - I just think this is probably the most graceful way to explain the passage of time and character development appropriately, so that is my choice. *shrugs*
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