Dont you think the history of Altera would be much more open, immersive, and reader friendly if some way to measure time was to be implemented? For example a proper timeline could be added to the player guides section for both new and experienced players?
Obviously some things in Altera's history wouldnt make sense if a concrete timeline would be created, because as you were saying it can be slightly "wibbly-wobbly", but that would still be better than leaving it all up in the air in my opinion ^_^
I think the history of Altera would be much more open, immersive, and reader friendly if it were published on the forums. Lucky coincidence, I've got a timeline in progress that goes back as far as late 2011. Huzzah! Note that this won't be particularly immediate, but there's a lot on there, and I'm working on the "reader-friendly" and thread-ready bits.
As for
time, I think it would be difficult to pin down precisely on account of the fact that character timelines historically, in Altera, simply do not match that of the world. It would be bananas to explain and suddenly implement, and there are as many pitfalls as benefits. Real empires have lasted for many tens of lifetimes - but many players on Hollowworld don't want to be held to going through characters at a rate of knots as they age and die to keep up with a world which builds itself at a drastically quick rate. Equally, many players want to see their characters grow old and complete their stories.
Don't get me wrong, I know there are some good arguments for it - but for the moment (and on this thread!), we intend to proceed as we have before in the interests of avoiding confusion, conflict, and general complications. On one bright side, I do intend to have a clarification thread released in the Lore area of the forums on the matter of time and ageing, so hopefully that will clear up the recurring questions and make it easier going forward.
Understatement of the century right there
Well, you
say that, but Stormhold was (usually) a
whole lot more RP-sanitary than some of the crazy things that went down at the various spawn locations...