Author Topic: NationStates Map/Roleplay (Read 515091 times)

FiahOwl · « **Reply #1740 on:** January 11, 2015, 03:22:30 PM »

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atomic7732 · « **Reply #1741 on:** January 21, 2015, 10:07:16 PM »

if people want to work on their calendars, and decide on a time for winter solstice of universalis, that would be helpful and then i can start working on a calendar/time conversion which i can put on my site

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rniilYHI6Z01gviRRxNKZV03peF6xrd8tdGvU1UMFfU/edit#gid=1481721213

otherwise they can just adopt someone else's calendar if they are lazy or it doesn't matter too much to them

i still want my own calendar because calendars are fun

and if everyone just wants to use mine then that's fine too

Bla · « **Reply #1742 on:** January 22, 2015, 02:59:09 AM »

Added calendar for Blaist Blaland, if others want they're also welcome to use that. Based on base 8.

Features:
- One leap day every ~10 years
- Every year the division of months and weeks are the same (except for rare leap days), no overlapping weeks into other years messing up vacation plans and all that nonsense
- Rainbow colors

FiahOwl · « **Reply #1743 on:** January 22, 2015, 04:03:04 AM »

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atomic7732 · « **Reply #1744 on:** January 22, 2015, 07:06:19 AM »

Quote from: FiahOwl on January 22, 2015, 04:03:04 AM

and an added leap year every 100 years added to the 9th month.

don't make the same mistake as me or you'll be 10 days off every 1000 years instead of just 1 (if you didn't have the leap day)

Edit: also aren't seasons predominantly southern based so like when is south winter solstice, north summer solstice for clarification

FiahOwl · « **Reply #1745 on:** January 22, 2015, 07:46:09 AM »

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atomic7732 · « **Reply #1746 on:** January 22, 2015, 08:56:31 AM »

i'll try to add your calendars (and the confusing aiyoti one) to my program today

Darvince · « **Reply #1747 on:** January 22, 2015, 10:24:14 AM »

"- Long winter vacation because Blaist Blaland is in the southern hemisphere" wut

FiahOwl · « **Reply #1748 on:** January 22, 2015, 10:39:33 AM »

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Bla · « **Reply #1749 on:** January 22, 2015, 10:47:56 AM »

We call it getting blarblacuted

People stand in long blarblaqueues to try it

Darvince · « **Reply #1750 on:** January 22, 2015, 11:07:11 AM »

protip the southern hemisphere isn't hotter than the northern hemisphere but blaland is in the desert zone so in some areas summers can get very hot indeed (as in regular temperatures over 40C during the heat of the day), according to clima-sim, blanaxon winter is about 10C to 20C

atomic7732 · « **Reply #1751 on:** January 22, 2015, 11:15:57 AM »

well then the winter would still be winter... australian winter isn't hot, it's just during july

and since it's your calendar and you're in the southern hemisphere... you can start your calendar whenever in the year

speaking of which you people have no definition as to how your years are synced up with the orbit! and we have no such information anyway! this is a disaster for all calendars

Darvince · « **Reply #1752 on:** January 22, 2015, 11:27:45 AM »

blaland not being a desert doesn't mean it's not in the desert zone (around 30N and 30S)

also if we are doing northern winter solstice at the beginning of the year then blaland's month 1 and 2 are where it is hot and sticky and yuck, but your calendar can start whenever so if month 1 is in the southern winter then it is during the cool period in blaland when it's nice in blanaxon (although by strictly western standards of 20 to 25 C is nice, blanaxon's nice periods happen during fall and spring)

Bla · « **Reply #1753 on:** January 22, 2015, 12:11:49 PM »

We talked past each other, so just forget about it.

As for defining the start of the year, I'd suggest an international standard for when New Year should be/when all the calendars start so it's not half a year apart for half the world or something. I don't really mind if it's based on the northern winter solstice or southern winter solstice. My calendar would probably be roughly pegged to either of those using the leap days to syncronize.

vh · « **Reply #1754 on:** January 22, 2015, 12:44:45 PM »

i don't see why we need a year based calendar once we've evolved beyond an agricultural lifestyle.

Bla · « **Reply #1755 on:** January 22, 2015, 12:53:17 PM »

Do you have a smarter alternative?

I think it seems convenient to peg vacations and lots of other things to seasons and a year based calendar makes that easy. I'm not saying we can't survive without one but I think they can be useful.

FiahOwl · « **Reply #1756 on:** January 22, 2015, 12:59:31 PM »

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atomic7732 · « **Reply #1757 on:** January 22, 2015, 01:52:42 PM »

Quote from: vh on January 22, 2015, 12:44:45 PM

i don't see why we need a year based calendar once we've evolved beyond an agricultural lifestyle.

calendars are helpful for astronomy and you know we still have to grow food?

also soleani calendar begins at the southern winter solstice

Darvince · « **Reply #1758 on:** January 22, 2015, 02:05:07 PM »

ah yes today i will wake up at 1410560000 and go to sleep at 1410625000

vh · « **Reply #1759 on:** January 22, 2015, 02:10:02 PM »

no one says you will wake up AD 2015 january 22 7:30 and goes to bed at AD 2015 january 22 23:30

likewise, you wouldn't use that many digits if you were using seconds

but in view of the importance of the circadian rhythm, perhaps it is better to use days in addition to seconds

FiahOwl · « **Reply #1760 on:** January 22, 2015, 09:04:04 PM »

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vh · « **Reply #1761 on:** January 25, 2015, 02:38:21 AM »

i mean there's no need to peg holidays or vacations to seasons or years. you can hold a national holiday every 100 months and go at it

Bla · « **Reply #1762 on:** January 25, 2015, 05:29:04 AM »

Quote from: vh on January 25, 2015, 02:38:21 AM

i mean there's no need to peg holidays or vacations to seasons or years. you can hold a national holiday every 100 months and go at it

Synchronizing them to the yearly cycle means you can easily get the longest vacation at the nicest time of the year etc. The season means there are times of the year that are more or less useful for different vacations and events. I'd be very sad if one year my 'summer vacation' happened to fall in November or something.
There's no need to hold them every 100 days either.

FiahOwl · « **Reply #1763 on:** January 27, 2015, 08:15:53 AM »

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Darvince · « **Reply #1764 on:** January 27, 2015, 08:38:24 AM »

2spoop

Naru523 · « **Reply #1765 on:** January 31, 2015, 10:36:56 PM »

beauty and the beast

FiahOwl · « **Reply #1766 on:** February 01, 2015, 06:46:53 AM »

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Bla · « **Reply #1767 on:** February 01, 2015, 07:07:07 AM »

Blaist Blaland has ~800 million people and is very centralized and has policies promoting high-density residence, that's why it has a very large capital compared to its other cities

Naru523 · « **Reply #1768 on:** February 01, 2015, 03:05:00 PM »

blapdart

FiahOwl · « **Reply #1769 on:** February 01, 2015, 03:17:57 PM »

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Poll

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Author Topic: NationStates Map/Roleplay (Read 515091 times)