Talk:Dwilight/Timeline

Dates

What's with this 1008 non-sense? The game works with societies that are 1200-1500, really, so the relation really has little relevance, and was never supported by the game, it was just proposed by some players, and besides, it could also be interesting for different realms to have a different calendar, an eventuality, perhaps (like the chinese don't use our western grogorian calendar). I'd say we leave it to 2008, to avoid any possible confusing, not to mention alot of those things are OOC. -Chénier 15:37, 28 March 2008 (CET)

First, we do not need to use our planet earth / western cristian calendar at all, so there is no reason to use 1200-1500 either. However, quite a few people have started using '1008' here, corresponding to '2008' in the real world. It gives you an easy reference frame to how long certain wars for example did last...and it does just look quite a bit more medieval than '2008'. So I guess its a matter of preference...basically anything is better than 2008...grin TanSerrai 18:00, 28 March 2008 (CET)

Chénier, please, dont offend people by saying "this nonsense". As TanSerrai said, there is no reason to use the gregorian calendar or the 1200-1500 range. Some people, me included, began to use it in 2007, to reflect a more "medieval" feellig of that notation. You want to use other notation type in your proyects, good for you, it would be fun to see another calendar in the game, but this is as valid has what you can think. --Baldur Mekorig

Speaking as the person who has done the majority of the work on this project, I see nothing wrong with using 1008. I used 2008 because I was copying the format of the EC timeline, which was not originally started by me. Also to whoever added color, nice touch.--Athins 02:09, 29 March 2008 (CET).

Chenier, The Middle ages were from 900 AD to 1350 AD. After 1350 it was called the Renaissance. So the 1200-1500 timeline wont work. There is nothing confusing, I'm sure everyone can add or subtract 1000 here. Ceorl 14:00, 29 March 2008 (CET)

Officially, 1008 is somewhat in the middle of the Middle Ages, because officially the Middle Ages started in 476 with the fall of Rome and the Western Roman Empire, and lasted until 1453 with the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire). The feudalism that Tom is trying to reach with the oath systems and such things went from the 9th to the 14th century, like Ceorl says here above. So there's nothing wrong with 1008, back then people were waking up early to stand in a line for their Lord's early greeting and food for that day, as was the case in the period of feudalism. Medium 15:54, 29 March 2008 (CET)

"From the 9th to the 14th centuries—the heyday of feudalism—" - Wikipedia. I think this is BM time period. Ceorl 18:11, 29 March 2008 (CET)

I believe I may have been the first person to use the 100X year system. I tried to work out a calendar based on BM seasons and all, failed completely, and so resorted to the simple 100X notation. It allows us to escape the mundanity of 200X (that is to say, the obtrusive presence of obviously modern dates) dating conventions, without doing any complex math. Its a simple system, though I usually reference each RL year as a "cycle," lasting anywhere from 2-4 actual game years. Its just that backdating the cycles would be an extremely difficult task, and it'd warp time to start using 4 yr/1 yr conventions now. I started using the 100X dating conventions in... 2006 I believe? I can't remember seeing it before I used it, but my memory might be failing me. Vellos 06:55, 30 March 2008 (CEST)

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Letter´s colors

Caerwyn´s yellow is to strong, i can barely read it against the white background. --Baldur Mekorig 16:32, 9 April 2008 (CEST)

Yea sorry, was too lazy to find a better color at the time. --Athins 09:10, 11 April 2008 (CEST)