Librari the Wizard said:
A very interesting read. Very similar to the new direction I'm taking my Arche, with a more fleshed out backstory and a starting house courtesy of wealthy parents.
I was curious what you meant by this, though:
A note regarding passage of time: in game, it took about 4.7 months (142 days) for Iviane to complete all these quests and actions (taking time to sleep and rest like a real person). I looked up the time differential, and 1 minute of real time equals around 20 of game time (or vice versa), so I did the math. That works out to 2,840 days, or 7.7 years.
Timescale in Skyrim is at a factor of 20 already, meaning every 3 seconds of realtime cause a minute to pass in-game. If a week has passed in the game (not factoring in any time spent waiting/sleeping), it should only have taken you a bit over 8 hours in real life to play through it. What it sounds like you did is multiply by a further 20, increasing the timescale to 400. This would make a 60-second conversation take almost 7 in-game hours. I'm not sure if that was your intention.
this is very true, aNd I may not have expressed what I wanted to do correctly. Or did the math correctly. here’s what I wanted to express: while you‘re having your conversations, battles, walks across Skyrim, etc., it doesn’t take as much time to do it as it would in the natural world. time and distance are compressed. It should take way longer than 8 hours to walk from whiterun to Windhelm. The battle for whiterun should take longer than an hour to finish. what I wanted to do was figure out how long stuff that just speeds by in game would take in the natural world. And yeah, this has implications for conversations and things like that. It’s absolutely not perfect. Here’s where I got the idea. But I admit that my spatial reasoning skills aren’t the greatest, so I may have misunderstood it.
From the article:
“Time also factors in to travel across Skyrim. The game’s internal clock is set so that one minute of actual time translates to 20 minutes of game-time, which means that 24 hours in the game pass for the player over the course of one hour and twelve actual minutes. A walk that might take a player two minutes—my walk from the tree down the hill and into Rorikstead—would take 40 in the natural world. Assuming a rate of 3 mph (5 kph) walking downhill, this becomes a distance of two miles, again something reasonable when considering how things appear from that distance. Calculating game-time and distance very much becomes similar to calculating one’s weight on different planets. As players, our mass remains the same, but we weigh more or less than we do on Earth.”
honestly, the concepts involved here hurt my head a little. I tried to sit down and figure out distances on the map and figure out travel times accordingly, but i admit it’s just beyond me. If you read the article and make better sense of it, please let me know!
[blockquote][b][url=/profile/LibraritheWizard]Librari the Wizard[/url] said:[/b]
A very interesting read. Very similar to the new direction I'm taking my Arche, with a more fleshed out backstory and a starting house courtesy of wealthy parents.
I was curious what you meant by this, though:
A note regarding passage of time: in game, it took about 4.7 months (142 days) for Iviane to complete all these quests and actions (taking time to sleep and rest like a real person). I looked up the time differential, and 1 minute of real time equals around 20 of game time (or vice versa), so I did the math. That works out to 2,840 days, or 7.7 years.
Timescale in Skyrim is at a factor of 20 already, meaning every 3 seconds of realtime cause a minute to pass in-game. If a week has passed in the game (not factoring in any time spent waiting/sleeping), it should only have taken you a bit over 8 hours in real life to play through it. What it sounds like you did is multiply by a further 20, increasing the timescale to 400. This would make a 60-second conversation take almost 7 in-game hours. I'm not sure if that was your intention.
[/blockquote]
this is very true, aNd I may not have expressed what I wanted to do correctly. Or did the math correctly. here’s what I wanted to express: while you‘re having your conversations, battles, walks across Skyrim, etc., it doesn’t take as much time to do it as it would in the natural world. time and distance are compressed. It should take way longer than 8 hours to walk from whiterun to Windhelm. The battle for whiterun should take longer than an hour to finish. what I wanted to do was figure out how long stuff that just speeds by in game would take in the natural world. And yeah, this has implications for conversations and things like that. It’s absolutely not perfect. Here’s where I got the idea. But I admit that my spatial reasoning skills aren’t the greatest, so I may have misunderstood it.
From the article:
“Time also factors in to travel across Skyrim. The game’s internal clock is set so that one minute of actual time translates to 20 minutes of game-time, which means that 24 hours in the game pass for the player over the course of one hour and twelve actual minutes. A walk that might take a player two minutes—my walk from the tree down the hill and into Rorikstead—would take 40 in the natural world. Assuming a rate of 3 mph (5 kph) walking downhill, this becomes a distance of two miles, again something reasonable when considering how things appear from that distance. Calculating game-time and distance very much becomes similar to calculating one’s weight on different planets. As players, our mass remains the same, but we weigh more or less than we do on Earth.”
honestly, the concepts involved here hurt my head a little. I tried to sit down and figure out distances on the map and figure out travel times accordingly, but i admit it’s just beyond me. If you read the article and make better sense of it, please let me know!
