(05-28-2015, 02:24 PM)Sounsyy Wrote:(05-28-2015, 02:06 PM)RiniKett Wrote: Thanks for the responses. Not sure how I will date things with a time freeze and all. I figure the 6 moons stood for a rotation of months since you can pick your birthdate. guess I'll have to wait and see.
Well the Astral and Umbral Moons do equate to months and their passage. And you can (if you want) express a passage of years as RL years pass - just, the game itself is not going to pass any time unless lore says it does. Ie. if there's a major plot event in the storyline that earns itself a date. These will likely still take place in the 1st Year of the Seventh Astral Era. But if you wanna RP as if years passed, etc, there's been two Heavensturn (New Years) events in real life, so we're now in the 3rd Year of the Seventh Astral Era - if that's how you wanna RP.
Dates are written like this, if you wanted to take today's date as an example:
28th Sun of the Third Astral Moon of the 1st(or 3rd depending) Year of the Seventh Astral Era.
This is a pretty good overview of Eorzean Time measurements if you're interested! Also individual days of the week have names based off of their element according to the Las Vegas Lore Panel.
Michael-Christopher Koji Fox Wrote:Yes! The days of the week definitely have names. Because the game was based off of themes that we had in Final Fantasy XI—the main lore guy was Kenichi Iwao, who worked on XI, and I had also worked on XI, and then we came on and started collaborating for XIV—and, again, it’s a new world, but we do want to, like with all Final Fantasy games, take stuff from previous Final Fantasies, and that’s one of the things that we wanted to take, because it was such a good system. In Final Fantasy XI, you had your elements, and because we have those same types of elements in XIV, we wanted to do the same thing—so you have your Watersday and your Firesday and you have your Windsday.
Personally, in my RP, I don't bring up time often enough where the passage of years actually comes up. I keep my character's age vaguely between 31 and 32, so I don't have to retcon. If something major happens over the course of a really really long time, I'll probably consider roleplaying RL time passage if it becomes necessary, but I generally just don't make mention of time passage or years for the sake of simplicity.
I understand that time in the game, as far as the official story goes, will not pass for the player. My question was more for the personal keeping of our characters and interactions between them. To the game, we are each the warrior of light, but none of us RP as such as it would...Well, I'm not sure an explanation is really needed to get that point across. My goal is keeping a personal record of this event happened for this character at this time, marriage- I mean Eternal Bond Anniversaries, Name Days, My character got this scar during the grindstone on *Blank*, on *blank* Rini found the world's largest chocolate chip cookie, etc etc. Random things like that. To say our RP has no time would technically be the collapse of the universe as everything would happen at once...Or something like that...Sorry if I'm confusing, my head hurts...I think I need a Doctor.
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