Regarding #7 in particular, I think an in-game day passes in approximately one real life hour (it isn't exact, and this is intended to be a mechanic to allow for a greater variety of day options, moon phases, etc.)
For whatever it may be worth, most of the RPers I've interacted with tend to ignore the in-game day/night cycle in favor of a chosen time zone. While there may be some inconsistency with this from LS to LS (which can usually easily be overlooked during cross-LS activities or otherwise something may be agreed upon in advance), it is usually much simpler to regard the passage of time this way because it simply makes more sense. If an Eorzean minute passes in about 2-3 seconds, and you're adhering to that exactly, speaking in terms like that where "I'll meet you in two bells' (hours) time," sort of gets muddled. I would infer that to mean that the rendezvous would be in two RL hours' time. Others might do the math and figure that to be in 4 or 5 minutes RL time (or whatever it works out to be).
I'm not saying it's wrong to use that (because I know there are often die-hards who will adhere strictly to that sort of thing). If it works and both parties are consistent and understand what is meant, that's awesome.
But for my own opinion, I'm just thinking that a RP picnic that may go on for 3 hours of real time, and the sun will rise and set three times during that span, and three days will pass. So it makes more sense for me to kind of disregard that passage of time, and perhaps instead may regard it as starting in the afternoon and ending at sundown maybe.
There's been other threads that have discussed this as well, and the topic of weather effects can also be applied, since they can change just as quickly. For something like a picnic, if it's clear when you start, and after 15 minutes it rains, some RPers might indicate OOCly that the rain should just be disregarded since people are out there on the premise of sunny skies and such.
I think the bottom line is that as long as everyone is on the same page, or at least understands where other RPers might be on different pages and is able to at least communicate those differences or understand or come to some sort of an agreement, than everything should be fine no matter what.
I didn't really intend to go on such a tangent, but it was an excellent question and brought up a lot of good points.
For whatever it may be worth, most of the RPers I've interacted with tend to ignore the in-game day/night cycle in favor of a chosen time zone. While there may be some inconsistency with this from LS to LS (which can usually easily be overlooked during cross-LS activities or otherwise something may be agreed upon in advance), it is usually much simpler to regard the passage of time this way because it simply makes more sense. If an Eorzean minute passes in about 2-3 seconds, and you're adhering to that exactly, speaking in terms like that where "I'll meet you in two bells' (hours) time," sort of gets muddled. I would infer that to mean that the rendezvous would be in two RL hours' time. Others might do the math and figure that to be in 4 or 5 minutes RL time (or whatever it works out to be).
I'm not saying it's wrong to use that (because I know there are often die-hards who will adhere strictly to that sort of thing). If it works and both parties are consistent and understand what is meant, that's awesome.
But for my own opinion, I'm just thinking that a RP picnic that may go on for 3 hours of real time, and the sun will rise and set three times during that span, and three days will pass. So it makes more sense for me to kind of disregard that passage of time, and perhaps instead may regard it as starting in the afternoon and ending at sundown maybe.
There's been other threads that have discussed this as well, and the topic of weather effects can also be applied, since they can change just as quickly. For something like a picnic, if it's clear when you start, and after 15 minutes it rains, some RPers might indicate OOCly that the rain should just be disregarded since people are out there on the premise of sunny skies and such.
I think the bottom line is that as long as everyone is on the same page, or at least understands where other RPers might be on different pages and is able to at least communicate those differences or understand or come to some sort of an agreement, than everything should be fine no matter what.
I didn't really intend to go on such a tangent, but it was an excellent question and brought up a lot of good points.
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