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You see Fred. He is... |
24 years old, and wow he seems eternally young. |
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In his 192nd season, quickly approaching the 193rd. |
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HR-Trevor Boss Type Guy
Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 6683 Location: Louisville, KY
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 4:45 pm Post subject: Age Poll. |
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Before you vote, some explanation.
Haelrahv has a year that is the equivalent of 2 years in real life. It has 8 seasons, each roughly the length of a RL season.
Because of this, if we use years for your age, your age will only change every 2 RL years. If we use seasons, your age will be a high number that changes 4 times a RL year.
So, do you like using years or seasons? _________________ "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." -- Plato
-- Trevor Rage / Rich Mondy
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Brokyn LLAMA SECHS
Joined: 19 Oct 2002 Posts: 3648 Location: Northern Georgia
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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I'll go with Seasons, if only because I want to force people to use basic math skills. Yeah.
Also, we won't be able to directly tell how old a character is, will we? I'm just shooting off of the title of the poll, so it's probably a stupid question, but I think it should be asked anyway.
--William, going to enjoy learning a whole new age system (He looks to be in the prime of his life -- gah, shoot me now) _________________
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Dragoonseal
Joined: 11 Sep 2002 Posts: 326 Location: Shaded alcove
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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If we use seasons, your age will be a high number than changes 4 times a RL year. |
Unless you made a typo, thats not all too fast. Its the same as DR's aging speed, you will age 4 years in one RL year.
If you started at 20 years of age, it would take you 5 RL years to hit 40 years (seasons?) of age in the game. I assure you, 5 RL years is a long damn time <g>.
I'll hold off voting for the moment, I think there might be a mistake there. If Fred started at the age of 30 IG, it would take him over 23 RL years to hit 123 seasons IG <g>. _________________ Dragoonseal |
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Dragoonseal
Joined: 11 Sep 2002 Posts: 326 Location: Shaded alcove
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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Oh wait, 192 seasons, haha. Ok so it'd take Fred 40 and a half RL years to get that old. _________________ Dragoonseal |
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HR-Trevor Boss Type Guy
Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 6683 Location: Louisville, KY
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, if we use seasons (i.e. 192 seasons old), Fred would age a season each 3 months IRL. If we use years, your age will only increase once every 2 RL years.
So for Fred to go from 20 to 30 would take 20 RL years. If you went by seasons, in 20 RL years Fred would have aged by 80 seasons.
On exact numbers, no, I don't like them myself, not conducive to RP at all, really. _________________ "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." -- Plato
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Sainji
Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 185 Location: Pops out of a box yelling: HERE I AM!
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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Even though I voted for the years option, I ask this question. Do we really need it? How about just a message that says s/he appears young, mature, wise/venerable for their race or something like that? I prefer this option to years or seasons.
My reason is how does someone know exactly how old you are in years or seasons? For RP purposes I would prefer very young, young, mature, wise/venerable, in relation to yourself when someone looks at you. Of course you would know how old you are.
Just my two cents.
Regards, _________________ Sainji & Mina |
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HR-Trevor Boss Type Guy
Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 6683 Location: Louisville, KY
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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<g> You're overanalyzing. Let's pretend we're doing it as you're outlined, but let's say you'd like an exact number on your info page. What would it be? _________________ "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." -- Plato
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HR-Solphan Lord of All That Is Agenty
Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 100 Location: AFK
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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Dragoonseal wrote: |
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If we use seasons, your age will be a high number than changes 4 times a RL year. |
Unless you made a typo, thats not all too fast. Its the same as DR's aging speed, you will age 4 years in one RL year. |
Just pointing out something..
DR's system is 4 game days = 1 RL day. 100 RL days per game year..
~3.65 game years per RL year.
So Haelrahv's would be a bit faster, if we're going by seasons compared to their years. _________________ pro.gram.mer (n) - a device which converts caffeine into code |
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Sainji
Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 185 Location: Pops out of a box yelling: HERE I AM!
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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Trevor,
Then I would prefer just to see my birthdate. Perhaps in a passport form for rp purposes like MO used to have. I'm assuming we would need a passport for visiting other countries/provinces on Haelrahv?
Just my two cents.
Regards, _________________ Sainji & Mina |
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Sainji
Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 185 Location: Pops out of a box yelling: HERE I AM!
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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Actually, can't we have a combination of the two options? Your name is Fred Brown, you were born on the 4th day of <insert month>, 100th season of the year 3030. Or something close to that?
Regards, _________________ Sainji & Mina |
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HR-Trevor Boss Type Guy
Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 6683 Location: Louisville, KY
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Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 1:14 am Post subject: |
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We can have that, yes. I'm just assuming, though, that people might like to have a quicker way to do their age, and if you decide to divulge your age, you need to know which of the two in the poll is the common terminology to use anyway. _________________ "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." -- Plato
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Dante Boi Toi
Joined: 12 Sep 2002 Posts: 728 Location: Orlando, Florida
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Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 11:28 am Post subject: |
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I voted for years, because it's just easier. It's both the same anyway, if the years on Haelrahv are two earth years long, right? There would still be 8 seasons to a year. It's just a different way of displaying the same thing. _________________ Help! Help! I'm being oppressed! |
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Dragoonseal
Joined: 11 Sep 2002 Posts: 326 Location: Shaded alcove
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Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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Seasons.. please. Or else no one will even be 20. We'll all be ages 8 through 18 about. And it'll take 14 RL years to even hit 25, we'll all be almost the same age.
Seasons on the other hand are not unlike DR aging, and even that I find is too slow, so seasons being a bit faster then that I find perfect. If you start off at 20 it'll take you 5 RL years to hit 40. And trust me, thats a long time, a lot of you won't still be here in 5 years. _________________ Dragoonseal |
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Sainji
Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 185 Location: Pops out of a box yelling: HERE I AM!
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Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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Trevor,
Not necessarily, different races might determine age differently. Natives might prefer seasons but immigrant races might prefer what they have culturally been indoctrinated to use.
Of course if the Humans have been here over 300 generations then yes I can see them using seasons, if they have been truly indoctrinated into the Haelrahv way of life.
I hope I'm not confusing the issue.
Regards, _________________ Sainji & Mina |
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HR-Hunter
Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 564 Location: [Deep Wilderness Shrine, Haelrahv]
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Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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Seasons.. please. Or else no one will even be 20. We'll all be ages 8 through 18 about. And it'll take 14 RL years to even hit 25, we'll all be almost the same age. |
You get to pick your age, so it's not as bad as all that. You can start out old if you want, or young, or middle aged. _________________ ~Hunter~ |
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