NationStates Jolt Archive

Can someone tell me how does the timeline work. I mean how long is a day a morth or a year in this game. Minutes, hours, days, weeks....???

Time is fluid here. Basically, RP time however you like. Many people use 1 real life day = 1 NS year, but it can get much, much slower than that during RPs and wars.

Thank you.

Welll the time line kinda goes by each person. It also depends on the type of role play you do. Say you are making a Aircraft carrier, it would take a good part of a NS year, which simplifies down to a little over realworld week.
But if you are doing a person based rp then each post would mostlikly be senconds after your last post (in that timeline.)

So it ould probably be best to think of a year as one actual week? correct

As I said, it's entirely up to you. Don't let anybody tell you what you can and can't do, or how to roleplay. Just read the stickies at the top of the forums and don't do anything you can't justify in your mind, and you'll be OK.

That is correct. though I'm going on my rough knowlage on how long it takes to make a carrier.

Thanks well this help me a lot. Well I am off to make my Ak's and light attack jets, cheap and affordable.

Time here is very, very fluid. Complex RPs with several participants can take weeks to develop. Trade and manufacturing can take days or even hours. So you may end up like I did. I have an RP for my current president*s inauguration iwhich has been. going on for quite some time. After that started I began my space program. I gave several days time, counting them as years, for research and development. The rocket launch was shown on live TV at the inaugural party. The last hour of the countdown actually stretched out over several days so that different characters could interact.