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#1 Madmax0430

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Posted 08 August 2006 - 07:49 PM

I just had a simple idea because traveling takes weeks to get around and its not feasable to build building in a day or two can you the make the counter that says what day it is say weeks instead?

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Posted 08 August 2006 - 08:48 PM

makes sense months might be a better idea though
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#3 Madmax0430

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Posted 08 August 2006 - 08:54 PM

sounds good because days was much too short a time frame

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Posted 08 August 2006 - 09:15 PM

yeah i think this is a pretty good suggestion

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Posted 08 August 2006 - 09:16 PM

Thanks glad my idea sounds good

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Posted 08 August 2006 - 10:47 PM

There wouldnt be a difference.. you could just keep it as days, and just slow down all the build rates.. or speed up the rate of the days..
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Posted 08 August 2006 - 10:57 PM

i understand but saying weeks or months would make it sound better because in Warhammer 40000 as you know it takes weeks to get around and even if you reduced the speed of travel on the galactic map it would still take only days to get anywhere and as with building things you cant build a complex building or train troops in a day or two so by changing days to weeks or months would make it a little more realistic and truer to Warhammer 40000

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Posted 09 August 2006 - 09:53 AM

You're totally right, even with warp travel, it takes a helluva long time to move around. It'd take us like three years or something to get to the closest star to us. Granted, they will have better technology in teh future, but it still will take a bloody long time, on the scale of weeks as you said.

Slowing down movement would also make people kinda consider what they're doing more...
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Posted 09 August 2006 - 10:52 AM

We'll prolly keep it as days, just speed the time the days tick away up, like 1 day every second or something
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Posted 09 August 2006 - 01:31 PM

just change it to weeks booms, it'd be easier than having billions of days on the counter after a long game :p
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Posted 09 August 2006 - 02:48 PM

in 40k they dont really count weeks, they dont even have months, its all days, at least when it comes to military operations.

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Posted 09 August 2006 - 10:06 PM

that would be confusing
a new day dawns and its 189432348

also how would u know when its ur brothers birthday ;)
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Posted 09 August 2006 - 10:20 PM

they dont offically have weeks on their callender but the term is still much in use and as it has been said in long campaigns you would have this insanely long number of days if you just ticked off a day every second or two if you really dont want the word weeks maby work with the text so just decide what yeah your campain will start and put the replace the word day on your counter with some thing like this M41 847.00 then the third digit would be the day counter number if its possible to do that

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Posted 09 August 2006 - 11:36 PM

Now THAT makes sense! ;)
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Posted 09 August 2006 - 11:46 PM

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Posted 10 August 2006 - 08:26 AM

that idea does make sense

The imperial date system operates on a metric system where the year is split into thousandths, so we could have time tick by in them units. That's digits 2,3 and 4... digits 5, 6 and 7 are the number of years, which would increase properly, and we finish with .M##

First digit is a check, referring to where things are taking place, which we need to decide on...

Now it's 0611006.M03

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Posted 10 August 2006 - 02:57 PM

still a bit confusing
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Posted 10 August 2006 - 04:32 PM

but it's totally 40k :p

we can split it up like ### ###. M## maybe..:)
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Posted 10 August 2006 - 06:43 PM

Or how about we just have normal dates that every can understand rather than M290817432489324 83240802.43249 238490238490238490328328834983248cheese580-55904358904385903850124=234324.32.4...........4332423423. Roughly.

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Posted 10 August 2006 - 08:01 PM

or mabe not change it at all......... :)




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