NationStates Jolt Archive

Hmmm... there seems to b some discrepancys in the timeframes here. I've seen 1 hour bewing used as a day and a month.....

I think we should have astandard time frame.

8.5 minutes=1 day
1 hour=7 days
4 hours=1 month
2 days 4 hours=1 year

that's using the smae time scale on everytrhing, rounding. (8.472174=8.5, 51.790023=52, (decimels made up)

Is this a good system?

We meet again, country sharing giant rock with me.

Personally, I ignore timeframes because they're inconcievable. For example, in a month, several Prime Ministers could die, be reelected, etc. in my country.

But I like the idea of maybe a simple system of basic measurement of time would be good, with a little tweaking.

No...

yes!


Wouldn't work though.....not enough people will see, or even look at this topic.

Wouldnt work, some of us do this thing called 'sleep', a few have 'school', and some just have 'life'. Thus 'timeframe' is not workable, since nations would be inactive for half the time and unresponsive to other peoples actions. Real nations have huge diplomatic staff to prevent this sort of thing, but I personaly dont want to be woken up at three AM to find out that somebody has declared war on DGNT when I could wake up at seven and find the same thing out, and be awake enough not to type:
DGNT fires its entire nuclear arsenal at your nation because you woke our leader up at a bad time. That'll learn ya.

I can, instead, invade them and enslave/massacre his entire nation, as well as locking his leader in a room with a bunch of horney gorillas.

Put short, timeframes dont work on NS. Generaly if a timeframe is requrired, people go on the one day = one year system, but some prefer two days, or a week, or whatever.
Even under this system, my national leader is about four hundred years old, and still going strong.

hmm... didn't think of that.

Though there shold be a semi-stnadard thing.... more like a guidelinethan a set of rules

hmm... didn't think of that.

Though there shold be a semi-stnadard thing.... more like a guidelinethan a set of rules

Didn't think of what? The 'sleep' part? Migosh, you are from outer space!
No, i'm just tired at the moment so I can be pretty bitchy right now.
I would say no. If you want to know why, look at Dontgonearthere's post... Only I wouldn't torture the leader. I would first crack open his skull, then give the Achleonian feather-bellied white tigers to eat his brain and then use the skull as my personal wine glass

me (and from what im reading in the other RPs) and earth V seems to use an Rl day as an NS year

For storefronts, I use 1 RL day=1 NS year.

For everything else I use flexi-timetm One minaute cn take days, and 1 year can take seconds.

Using your system my Emporer would be 1000's of years old, he's only 14.

For storefronts, I use 1 RL day=1 NS year.

For everything else I use flexi-timetm One minaute cn take days, and 1 year can take seconds.

Using your system my Emporer would be 1000's of years old, he's only 14.

yeah i use an semmilar system when im Rping an war or conflict but if im just chating around ill use 1 RL day as an NS year (flex-timeing, i like that phrase :p )

Any form of standard time would not work. For example:
In a storefront, you might want 1 RL day = 1 NS year.
In a war RP, you would probably need something like 1 RL day = 1 NS hour and at the same time 1 RL hour = 1 NS day.

This is because of certain things happening at the same time during a war. If you're RPing a battle, you may want your post to follow on directly from the previous RPer's post. Or, if you're RPing movement of reinforcements, in one post they would leave and in the next they arrive (minor godmoding I know, but the principle stands)

Its much easier to use this sort of thing, mainly the 1 day = 1 NS year for storefronts. But it wouldn't be in any way rational to use it for everything.

I personally agree with fluid time. In peace times, 1 RL day=1 NS year, however, in times of war, time slows down drastically. There really isn't a specific time for that one, it really depends on how fast everything develops. Diplomatic meetings/conferences/summits are the same way. Time slows down.