Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by TooManyPotatoes » Fri Jan 15, 2021 11:19 pm

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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Flower Power » Sat Jan 16, 2021 5:47 am

Security_Blanket wrote:
Fri Jan 15, 2021 9:22 pm
I don't see how this makes IC sense for everyone to now start saying "Threeday" or whatever. I say keep it simple and keep it IC. 1 RL day = a few days, 2 RL days = a week, 3 RL days = a tenday.
A week and a tenday are the same thing in the setting.
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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Batrachophrenoboocosmomachia » Sat Jan 16, 2021 6:04 am

Flower Power wrote:
Sat Jan 16, 2021 5:47 am
Security_Blanket wrote:
Fri Jan 15, 2021 9:22 pm
I don't see how this makes IC sense for everyone to now start saying "Threeday" or whatever. I say keep it simple and keep it IC. 1 RL day = a few days, 2 RL days = a week, 3 RL days = a tenday.
A week and a tenday are the same thing in the setting.
Yeah... Not in Neverwinter Nights. The Calendar of Harptos has ten days in a 'week,' and three 'weeks' in a month, which sure, that works great. But NwN has 28 days in a month. Hard-coded.

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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Ninjimmy » Sat Jan 16, 2021 8:37 am

Its kinda weird to call it a threeday because this implies that nobody in faerun can pluralise day.

Tenday is an established unit, threeday makes it sound like we just arent slapping an s on the end.
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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by andthenthatwasthat » Sat Jan 16, 2021 2:47 pm

I can sense a rise in the chronomancer RP soon.

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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Party in the forest at midnight » Sat Jan 16, 2021 4:59 pm

The real galaxy brain play will be saying "in a tenday" and meaning in 3 IRL days, and watching confusion follow. It will be even better than translating times to EST during EDT so the event starts an hour earlier than when people think it's going to happen.

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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by triaddraykin » Sat Jan 16, 2021 7:02 pm

Triday.

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Tridaaaaaay.
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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Kenji » Sun Jan 17, 2021 12:39 am

Getting all fancy and nomenclature-y is just gonna confuse the non-native English speakers. I vote threeday.

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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Baron Saturday » Sun Jan 17, 2021 4:11 am

The GrumpyCat wrote:
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Ultimatly if this happens, it'll probably happen organically anyway. Sooner or later someone will use a phrase, and people will either like or won't, pick it up or not. And when people pick it up, it'll be shared around and, before you know it, whatever word it is = it'll find it's way into common usage. But it's often a little hard to predict what it'll be. So I guess we'll just have to wait and see!
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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Cybren » Sun Jan 17, 2021 5:16 am

I don’t know why we need an IC term for a meta narrative conceit (that a rl day is three in game days), if you need to reference a RL time it’s best to just explicitly say that RL time and eliminate any confusion. “In a few days” is as precise as you should need to be in character.

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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by msheeler » Thu Jan 21, 2021 10:27 pm

You know you could also just be more specific and give the exact number of days. I mean if I was playing at night tomorrow morning is the next day, tomorrow afternoon is two days away and tomorrow night is then three days away.

Is it in the next 8ish hours? Tomorrow.
Is it in the next 16ish hours? Day after tomorrow.
Is it closer to 24 hours from now? In a few days.

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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Flower Power » Fri Jan 22, 2021 6:53 am

Cybren wrote:
Sun Jan 17, 2021 5:16 am
I don’t know why we need an IC term for a meta narrative conceit (that a rl day is three in game days), if you need to reference a RL time it’s best to just explicitly say that RL time and eliminate any confusion. “In a few days” is as precise as you should need to be in character.
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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Taerl » Mon Feb 08, 2021 6:05 pm

Lexx wrote:
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Barely anyone used the term Tencycle/Tenday before in game already. So I see more the same happening with this.

lol really? I see it used all over the place all the time, both tencyclee and tenday.

I simply say it how i am going tosay it and send them a tell with the RL meaning. if they have tells turned off, oh well.

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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by CNS » Tue Feb 09, 2021 8:33 am

Doesn't everyone else just say whatever sounds about right IC and then tell the person the exact real life date and time when it matters?

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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Hedgehog » Wed Feb 10, 2021 4:26 pm

Hey all!

So previously we had our pay schedules in our guild set to pay out members on a IRL weekly basis, which to in game translated to about roughly just over three months, which we called a ‘Quarter.’

With the time change, seems like time is going to move a bit slower? So each day is three days instead of a ten day?

So then this means 1 IRL week translates to about 21 days right? Three weeks?

Am I right on this or please correct me if I am wrong.

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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Kessarin » Wed Feb 10, 2021 6:16 pm

Hedgehog, there's a FAQ about the time changes: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=32103
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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Altair01 » Mon Mar 22, 2021 9:31 am

Use halfweek instead of threeday to represent a RL day.
1 tenday = 10 days
1 week = 7 days
1 halfweek = 3.5 days

This works out because one RL day is 3.3 in-game days.
So really, you have 1 halfweek, 1 week (2 RL days), 1 week-and-half, 2 weeks etc.

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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Alyxnia » Sun Mar 28, 2021 3:58 am

A few could mean 3 or 4 OR approximately 20-40% of the total (a few [6] of the 20 council members were in attendance)
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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by Rei_Jin » Sun Mar 28, 2021 6:52 am

Technically old English had...

Tomorrow (one day from now)
Overmorrow (two days from now)
Thirdmorrow (three days from now)

I'd just use Thirdmorrow

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Re: Time Change - What to call Tomorrow?

Post by chris a gogo » Sun Mar 28, 2021 4:04 pm

I saw a notice on the boards in the hub for a gathering in a tricycle I just started giggling.

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