Six Year? A progression of events query

[Volkai]

Argh. I suspected we were in the MMO time bubble, but people keep telling me that somewhere or other it's been (officially) said that we're at year six after the Calamity. Without a source link, of course.

There's also the fact that the post you quoted is from 2012, so it's possible that something saying otherwise had been posted in the intervening years.

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Argh. I suspected we were in the MMO time bubble, but people keep telling me that somewhere or other it's been (officially) said that we're at year six after the Calamity. Without a source link, of course.

There's also the fact that the post you quoted is from 2012, so it's possible that something saying otherwise had been posted in the intervening years.

Well 2.0 starts 5 years after the calamity so we are in year 6 AC ( actually you are in the 6th year after the quest to commemorate the calamity at lvl 15 I think ), but yeah I wonder if they'll stick to the time bubble theory, for an anime where all episodes are independants from each others the time bubble works fine, but in this game events occurs in a certain order ( although you can consider that side quests can occur anytime ) so there is a continuity, I think in WoW they made each expansion last 1 year or 6 month lore wise.

I don't really understand Ferne's answer, unless he is speaking about having the game occuring at the same pace as in the real life ( meaning that if a player started today the dialogues should be changed to say that it's year 7 ) ?

[Volkai]

Well 2.0 starts 5 years after the calamity so we are in year 6 AC ...

I don't really understand Ferne's answer, unless he is speaking about having the game occuring at the same pace as in the real life ( meaning that if a player started today the dialogues should be changed to say that it's year 7 ) ?

What Fernehalwes was saying is that while there is 'passage of time' as events progress, it is unmeasured. So when you're doing the 2.5 storyline it's been a while since the Crystal Braves were formed, just as when the Crystal Braves formed it had been a while since your fight with the Black Wolf, just as that occurred a while after the story of 2.0 starts... but it's still been five years since the Calamity. You can't say "Heavensturn marked six years since the Calamity" or some such, and have your statement mesh with the official timeline.

[Anonymoose]

Well 2.0 starts 5 years after the calamity so we are in year 6 AC

Assuming the time bubble is still in play, I think this may be an inaccurate assumption about how to gauge approximately based on how many years ago people say it was. Throughout the entirety of 1.X, it was 1572. From the day the servers went up until the day the servers went down, "10 years ago" meant 1562. It meant such on Day 1 when NPCs were referring to the fall of the Keeper, it meant such entire storylines later when NPCs were referring to the Bozja Citadel incident.

you are in the 6th year after the quest to commemorate the calamity at lvl 15 I think

In the quest where you convince them to plan said event (Envoy), Merlwyb actually says, "Seven hells ... Has it been five years?" and during said ceremony, Raubahn still refers to it as "five years ago." If anything, you started the game just as it was passing from 4 to 5 when the "dome" came down and sealed the bubble.

What Fernehalwes was saying is that while there is 'passage of time' as events progress, it is unmeasured.

Assuming the bubble is still in play (and I assume it is, considering Fernehawles said this well after 2.0 entered development, referenced MMOs in general, and talks about how lines of dialogue would need to be adjusted between patches if there was), Volkai gets it.

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In the quest where you convince them to plan said event (Envoy), Merlwyb actually says, "Seven hells ... Has it been five years?" and during said ceremony, Raubahn still refers to it as "five years ago." If anything, you started the game just as it was passing from 4 to 5 when the "dome" came down and sealed the bubble.

Depends on if calamity is day 1 1st month and year 1 then 5 years later is year 6 but if you consider the first year to be year 0 then it's year 5.

Also I still don't understand what text boxes need to be changed, each quest is in a particular time range, let's say that for exemple that heavensward quest occur at year 7 of the era then all the quests texts say 7th year, then if you do a quest from 2.x it will say year 5 or 6 and it's not because you travelled in time, but because you got through the story in a different order.