Get rid of eorzea time and just use real time

[Alhanelem]

One of the primary reasons for both FFXI and FFXIV having game time is because the servers were all in a central location and people from a wide range of time zones around the world connected to the same servers, so game time helped make things consistent. But FFXIV is moving to regionally-located servers, so I think it would be a good idea to just have day/night match real life, with servers in each region being set to the time zone they're located in (most likely PST in the US, JST in Japan, GMT in europe).

This would also eliminate confusion between the two time systems e.g. "Is that over the next real life day / jp midnight? or is it just one game day?" and prevent the ingame date from going drastically out of line with the time the game as originally set in as the years go by (in FFXI, the game started in the 900s C.E. and the current date in game is 1166 C.E.).

I'm not really sure whether most people like this or not. What do you think?

The main idea here is simplifying the process of figuring out when to do things. It can be a little confusing having 2 time systems to think about, and the immersion breaking of NPCs having to specifically name "(Earth Time)" and "(Eorzea Time)."

The results are in, and this idea is obviously a failure. You can't say I didn't put my heart into it at least.

[Rex]

I'd be all for it, but if there's things that only happen at certain times of the day, some people may never be able to experience those events.

And XI started in the 900s? I could have sworn playing in like 886 C.E. ...

[Pwnagraphic]

It's a cool concept, but if you had to wait for a mob pop in a quest that only spawns during the night, that'd get old quick or vice versa. There's also other things that factor in that are game related to in-game time.

Some NPC's may only appear at night as well or during the day so it could be hard to complete something if you're going off of real time. And remember these servers may be region based, but we're not forced to play only on a server specific to our region so if you set your time to CST in US and you're playing with someone in England, it just wouldn't work out too well.

[Pseudopsia]

I don't think I'll like this. If they sync Eorzea time to real time I'll be playing during the night on weekdays. I'll have to change to keeper of the moon.

[Zehira]

I don't think I'll like this. If they sync Eorzea time to real time I'll be playing during the night on weekdays. I'll have to change to keeper of the moon.

I agree, bad idea... lol

Even if I have to work everyday in the morning and NM has to be spawned at 10 AM. Then you can tell why it's a problem. hahaha

[Punainen]

I don't think I'll like this. If they sync Eorzea time to real time I'll be playing during the night on weekdays. I'll have to change to keeper of the moon.

Exactly. If they did this, I'd almost NEVER see the game in daylight, and that would get old really quickly. It'd be like playing Animal Crossing... I hate Animal Crossing purely for the fact that it was ALWAYS night when I played.

[Zehira]

Exactly. If they did this, I'd almost NEVER see the game in daylight, and that would get old really quickly. It'd be like playing Animal Crossing... I hate Animal Crossing purely for the fact that it was ALWAYS night when I played.

I know right? I'd LOL about this thread. It would only work if you change your computer's time system or being stuck with server's time.

1 hour earth time = 1 day game time is still better though.

Still, good try Alhanelem!

[Lady]

I like the day/night cycle. Helped me to keep track of time better when playing. If they have any NMs that only spawn during certain times of day (ie the giant buffalo thingy), this makes it easier for casuals to get a shot at it too. But thats just my opinion.

[Pwnagraphic]

I like the day/night cycle. Helped me to keep track of time better when playing. If they have any NMs that only spawn during certain times of day (ie the giant buffalo thingy), this makes it easier for casuals to get a shot at it too. But thats just my opinion.

I'm sure the scene of Odin in the woods might hint to him being a night time spawn, but that's just speculation for now.

[Zezlar]

I don't think I would really like this idea either. There would be times when I see day or night far too much in one strecth by playing at a certain time of day.