In-Character Time Change Imminent

[Zonr_0]

Dose this mean its gona take ageis to get a boat ie the mikona to elysia one

No, all real life durations and timers such as the boat timers should remain the same.

[Lady_Ashling]

Dose this mean its gona take ageis to get a boat ie the mikona to elysia one

No, all real life durations and timers such as the boat timers should remain the same.

But if the boat leaves at noon and its a hour before.Wont it now take 20 min insted of 4?

[Zar'roc]

and also, how many years IG is approximately 1 year RL? I would try and figure it out, but I dont have the patience....lol

[Zar'roc]

cause i would like to keep up with the age of Sho. I've already long forgotten the age of mero and shana, but they are still relatively young

[Hamlet]

But if the boat leaves at noon and its a hour before.Wont it now take 20 min insted of 4?

The RL duration of "departure window" and time in-between does not change. Since IC explanation may not suffice, the ship captains' conversations include an OOC clarification as well. FoIG soon.

and also, how many years IG is approximately 1 year RL? I would try and figure it out, but I dont have the patience....lol

IG time runs 3 times faster than RL time, I believe this answers your question?

[MadK@]

Ok it's done *falls over*

Report any oddities to bug tracker please.

[Hamlet]

<Shameless Plug>

In-Game Radial Menu -> Crafting Menu -> Configuration -> Calculate Avlis Time -> Works as intended.

</Shameless Plug>

[spool32]

Dose this mean its gona take ageis to get a boat ie the mikona to elysia one

No, all real life durations and timers such as the boat timers should remain the same.

But if the boat leaves at noon and its a hour before.Wont it now take 20 min insted of 4?

Old Way
There are 1440 minutes in 24 hours. On Avlis these 1440 minutes of IC time passed in 96 RL minutes. The boat ran 4 times in an IC day, which is 4 times every 96 RL minutes, or once every 24 minutes RL.

New Way
There are 1440 minutes in 24 hours. On Avlis, these 1440 minutes of IC time pass in 480 RL minutes. The boat runs 1 time every IC hour, which is 1 time every 20 minutes RL.

[Belasco]

<Shameless Plug>

In-Game Radial Menu -> Crafting Menu -> Configuration -> Calculate Avlis Time -> Works as intended.

</Shameless Plug>

[Xiaou]

This is wonderful, I had no idea this was even possible. Will the periods of daylight and darkness honor this or is this an emoted construct that we could explain by ..I dunno, frequent lunar eclipses? I guess I'll FOIG. What a great bunch. Wow we could have seasons, god could you imagine if half dryads could change colors with the seasons? Thats probably not really possible but still, this is super cool.

[NayalaGelbert]

Is is just me, or does it seem to take longer to read all these posts now?

[spool32]

Is is just me, or does it seem to take longer to read all these posts now?

Yes, we've SLOWED DOWN ACTUAL TIME to make more room for Avlis in your day. Unfortunately, it also means you read much slower.

Will the periods of daylight and darkness honor this or is this an emoted construct that we could explain by ..I dunno, frequent lunar eclipses? I guess I'll FOIG.

Day/night cycles and seasonal changes will follow the (now 5x slower) IC clock.

[l1t3r]

Awesome guys ....simply awesome.

[Gorgon]

This is wonderful, I had no idea this was even possible...

One thing I've learned seeing what coders and other folks here have done over the years is... anything is possible. Even that ebul word "hard coded" just means they will have to get creative. It is only a matter of A) it being approved by the team, B) finding someone (or several someone's) to do the work, and C) it passing testing.

[Pat Briams]

Dammit, is there no limit to Avlis' awesomeness? I'll never get over this addiction now!

*bows down and worships everyone who made this possible*

[Yenefer]

So wait... my character got younger? or just when she hit age of 40 time slowed, just to annoy her?

[Gorgon]

Does this retroactively affect character age, or only from this point on?

We have decided not to apply this retroactively.

Assuming that was a serious question

[Plethora]

A huge heartfelt thanks to everyone involved

I know we all expect no less

But fuck it...

This is simple awesome

[PsiOmega]

Dose this mean its gona take ageis to get a boat ie the mikona to elysia one

No, all real life durations and timers such as the boat timers should remain the same.

But if the boat leaves at noon and its a hour before.Wont it now take 20 min insted of 4?

Boats now leave if the IG minute is between 0 and 5, inclusive. This makes it a 5 minute window of opportunity with 15 minutes between each.

[PsiOmega]

Some further details about the time switch.
Time before the RL date 2010-07-09 and the IG date 2231-7-16 (time of the import) will have gone by using the old 15:1 ratio. After this point it will be 5 times as slow, or using a 3:1 ratio.
This does indeed mean that your human will still be 160 years old, your kobold 80 years old, etc. but at least they won't age as quickly from this point on.

One reason for this is that if we had just applied the change with no consideration for when we did it, IG time would've been been drastically re-winded so to speak.
Assume Avlis began the IG year 2000 and 500 years had happened before the change. With a no-care application those 500 years would suddenly only become 100.

The effect would've been that events after a certain point now be marked as happening in the future.
Of course this could be fixed by re-calculating when they occurred but we felt this was the least error prone solution.

[Hamlet]

The RL duration of "departure window" and time in-between does not change. Since IC explanation may not suffice, the ship captains' conversations include an OOC clarification as well.

Boats now leave if the IG minute is between 0 and 5, inclusive. This makes it a 5 minute window of opportunity with 15 minutes between each.

Quoted for emphasis. ;-)

[Jemir]

Okay, so I'm actually semi-joking here, but how about this to spark some conversation:

Say your character goes to another COPAP world where time passes at a different ratio (I have no idea what they really are). Now how old is your character when it returns to Avlis

[PsiOmega]

Okay, so I'm actually semi-joking here, but how about this to spark some conversation:

Say your character goes to another COPAP world where time passes at a different ratio (I have no idea what they really are). Now how old is your character when it returns to Avlis

That depends on how good your time keeping actually is.

[llhht]

After using a low duration item and noticing how incredibly long it seemed to last:

Does this also affect spell and effect durations?
IE, does light cast from a lvl 2 mage now last 40 RL minutes?

[Hamlet]

Does this also affect spell and effect durations?

No, it doesn't. All Avlis systems should behave as priorly, as far as RL time duration is concerned. If suspicious, use the bug tracker to report.