An Eorzean Timeline - Reborn

[Sapphic]

I wonder what the actual elapsed Eorzean time is between updates? If we went on 90 RL days, 1.5 hrs=1 eorzaen day. 15 days=1 RL day. 1350 days, seems a bit too much. So pretty safe to asume thats not the case.

3 months passes between? Sounds more palatable than over 4 Eorzean years. Closest frame of reference to how much time passes in Eorzea is the development of Revs toll. So, it couldbe pretty safe to say 1 year has passed in Eorzea (imo). From launch to the present day, also taking into account festivels.

[NoloeTazier]

I wonder what the actual elapsed Eorzean time is between updates? If we went on 90 RL days, 1.5 hrs=1 eorzaen day. 15 days=1 RL day. 1350 days, seems a bit too much. So pretty safe to asume thats not the case.

3 months passes between? Sounds more palatable than over 4 Eorzean years. Closest frame of reference to how much time passes in Eorzea is the development of Revs toll. So, it couldbe pretty safe to say 1 year has passed in Eorzea (imo). From launch to the present day, also taking into account festivels.

It's really hard, there's no real set time.

In the new Beastmen Questline it's mentioned that six moons have passed since various beastmen had been murdered, but it's hard to put that to a date since we don't currently know the time.

I really wished we had days of the week in-game.

[Anonymoose]

I wonder what the actual elapsed Eorzean time is between updates?

One the game begins, time enters The Simpsons Bubble and stops moving in any logical way; this is because time can't progress to any degree that would make the game inconsistent for a player that's going to start in 2017. For established players, the imperial soldiers are all still just hanging around at the castrums even though their Legatus is dead, leaving it to us to say, "Well, I guess they just have nowhere else to go. The XIVth came here alone, after all, and Garlemald is now (we're told) in civil war!" That could be true, but it's also true that newer players just need them there for consistency.

Because of this, you can (probably) make the assumption that we will never leave the current year behind us officially. The 5th Year of the Seventh Umbral Era is (likely) just also known as The 1st Year of the Seventh Astral Era, and that's our bubble. You can play with the rules by going through time like FFXI did, but otherwise you're (generally) stuck with this limitation in the world lore. There's a little bit of relativity - a few turns of the sun here - a few turns of the moon there - but even if this game is out for another decade, we probably won't be seeing Maggie to high school (without time travel).

I really wished we had days of the week in-game.

Based on the Five Ages, the eight days of the week are aspected towards the six elements and two polarities, and the list begins (like the months) at ice, so I've just been saying Iceday, Watersday, Windsday, Thundersday Firesday, Earthsday, Astralsday, Umbralsday - lol.

[NoloeTazier]

Based on the Five Ages, the eight days of the week are aspected towards the six elements and two polarities, and the list begins (like the months) at ice, so I've just been saying Iceday, Watersday, Windsday, Thundersday Firesday, Earthsday, Astralsday, Umbralsday - lol.

Yeah this is why I wished we had official days, Five Ages laid everything out just up to SE to implement it all.

[Fenral]

One the game begins, time enters The Simpsons Bubble and stops moving in any logical way; this is because time can't progress to any degree that would make the game inconsistent for a player that's going to start in 2017.

I'm not entirely sure about that, actually. Story-wise, we're prepping to enter a city-state surrounded by optional quests that explain why they won't open their gates, which, one assumes, players will be able to complete even after Ishgard opens its gates.

Following Simpsons' logic, remnants of the Ishgardian and Dravanian factions will never truly stop fighting, persecution of heretics will continue unabated, and the Ascians can never be defeated because that would interfere with the SMN Job quests and that first set of EX Primal quests. And so on. It's shaping up to be a pretty uneventful expansion, isn't it?