819 was last year. Last year is over. When a year is over, and a new one begins, you add one to the year count. You can't have the seventh of june 819 twice.
(06-07-2013, 07:37 AM)Redon Wrote: 819 was last year. Last year is over. When a year is over, and a new one begins, you add one to the year count. You can't have the seventh of june 819 twice.
The devs disagree
I say 820, it's the logical way to do it. What are they gonna do, ban us all for saying it's the wrong year because we wont repeat years like idiots?
(06-07-2013, 07:37 AM)Redon Wrote: 819 was last year. Last year is over. When a year is over, and a new one begins, you add one to the year count. You can't have the seventh of june 819 twice.
The devs disagree
I say 820, it's the logical way to do it. What are they gonna do, ban us all for saying it's the wrong year because we wont repeat years like idiots?
It's groundhog year because the world didn't end by Mayan prophecy.
RP wise, if you use the wrong year, my characters would probably just assume that House x, in their backwardness, has a wacky calendar.
Though it is interesting to consider how Sirians may actually keep time, as far as years go anyway. Planets would all vary - is the AS calendar just used internationally?
not like the year you play in matters that much for your own RP.
just agree with those you role play with on years and events and on how long ago they happened or when they will happen.
i am going my 820 myself, since i am too lazy to downgrade old dates or make up random non-existing months.
if you really dunno what to do just say. "a year ago.", "one year from now", "currently.", "some days ago" or simply don't mention the year at all and just use days and months.
I'm going to have to say 819 A.S.
Sorry for all of you who use assume the same calender is implemented from ours, but as far as I can tell it would seem to use a different system. And I'm not sure if any of you noticed, but our year is based around the sun, AKA it is a measurement for SOL. So how in the world would you expect this to be practical in Sirius? I mean, sure, you could simply try extremely hard to keep track of time, but that's unreliable. There is no way of ACTUALLY telling time aside from common knowledge. There obviously is some sort of calender system, as time's progressed fairly regularly to my knowledge, but again, it's doubtful that it falls under the same type of measurement as ours, as many of you have pointed out that 4.85 lasted two years(? I wasn't around for this myself). So, this points to a separate calender from ours, which is something I've already pointed out a flaw in.
So yeah. That's why I'm going with 819 A.S. Take it or leave it.
(06-07-2013, 09:40 AM)Omega472 Wrote: I'm going to have to say 819 A.S.
Sorry for all of you who use assume the same calender is implemented from ours, but as far as I can tell it would seem to use a different system. And I'm not sure if any of you noticed, but our year is based around the sun, AKA it is a measurement for SOL. So how in the world would you expect this to be practical in Sirius? I mean, sure, you could simply try extremely hard to keep track of time, but that's unreliable. There is no way of ACTUALLY telling time aside from common knowledge. There obviously is some sort of calender system, as time's progressed fairly regularly to my knowledge, but again, it's doubtful that it falls under the same type of measurement as ours, as many of you have pointed out that 4.85 lasted two years(? I wasn't around for this myself). So, this points to a separate calender from ours, which is something I've already pointed out a flaw in.
So yeah. That's why I'm going with 819 A.S. Take it or leave it.
They could easily use a version of what we do now, just making sure that 1 year = however many seconds instead of a literal revolution.
Alternately, it may be the nomads' fault that the year is wacky. Damn nomads.
They could easily use a version of what we do now, just making sure that 1 year = however many seconds instead of a literal revolution.
Alternately, it may be the nomads' fault that the year is wacky. Damn nomads.
Like I was saying, that would be fairly impractical, as they arrived in sleeper ships, so who's to say the time they had when they got there is correct? Or that any of their time pieces worked correctly in the first place?
Also, Nomads are responsible for everything ever. Period.
...I'm sure that works somehow, right?
I imagine that could be why they switched to using a different year counter. An international AS calendar combined with local calendars would work similar to the use of credits even though some rumors refer to specific house currencies.
In any case, it'd be kind of awesome if different houses argued about year it actually was.