Cantr II Discussion Forum

I'm probably the only one who feels this way since no one else has mentioned it...(except for Sparkle, maybe but I just wanted to go on record stating that I really dislike the 25 hour days. I personally prefer the turn change coming at the same time everyday. It doesn't matter what that time is........as long as it is the same time.

So....that's my 2 cents.

Um. I agree, really...it's a bit disorienting.

I didn't notice....

Yeah i agree too.

The change always happened around 11 pm at my place so i always used all my minutes before that.

kroner wrote:I didn't notice....

Won't the rest of us look silly if it's already on a 24 hour cycle and we didn't notice?

I have no problems with the twenty-five hour cantrian day. I've always had my characters view hour 0 (or 1 until recently) as early early morning, and hour 7 ( 8 ) as nearing midnight-ish.

So even if I were playing at 3am here in Maine, if it were hour 5, my characters wish a cheery afternoon to everyone. On a 25 hour clock, this means that my characters won't always be active at the same cantr times, which allows them a little variety in greetings: Good morning! Bon soir! etc...

Not that it's a major deal to me or anything...

~AoM

My characters do not notice a difference between night and day

I'd say the Avavtar's cantr-time-of-day method makes a lot of sense. I've used it myself a little in the past.

I always thought cantr were something synchronous to real time...

Is it really a 25 hour day?

Is this the reason that when i come home for work and login to cantr and go hunts some animals it often says that i can only hunt once a day, while i hunted at the same time the day before?

I always thought well maybe the turn shifted 10 minutes earlier of i hunted 10 minutes earlier the day before, but if there's a shit in time it would explain a lot.

Anyway if time isn't synchrone to real time, what's the reason for that? I think is quite anoying, from the hunting and working part because i mostly login at the same time each day... Its usefull to know that a day has passed. Well of course cantr is not the real world and time can be different but why?

I also dont notice a difference in day or night. I only use the days and hourse to keep track of time, but for the rest it has no meaning...

I just get confused when I see the

There are 20 days in a year, 8 hours in a day, 36 minutes in a hour.

thing on top of the screen. Is that even accurate?

Especially the 36 minutes in an hour.

I never really thought about that...

Cantr wrote:There are 20 days in a year, 8 hours in a day, 36 minutes in a hour.

So, 36 minutes in a<b>n</b> hour and 8 hours a day... Each day is only 288 minutes? So each year is only 4 RL days? I'm confused now, what am I missing?

Is, for example, 1000-1 a day and 1000-2 considered another day? I thought the -(#) was the hour.

Or, am I thinking about this incorrectly, and this is just talking about time in Cantr?...So a minute in this quotation isn't meant to be equivalent to a "real" minute? Does anyone even know what I am talking about, or am I crazy?

I could be wrong but I think 1 Cantr min is 3 min and about 20 sec in RL

I read some where on here that 1 cantr hours is roughly 3 RL hours.
and 1 Cantr day is roughly one RL day.

It appears to be 25 RL hours long but I have never worked it out. If it is my guesses above would be wrong as they are based on a 24 day.

Is it clear as mud, now?

It did coincide with a 24 hour day but this has recently been changed. It is now approximately 25 hours for a full cantr day and new minutes.

Hence the thread about not liking it.

The game clock being changed to a 25-real-life-hour-day was actually not intentional to start with. It was a programming error, or so I heard. However, it was decided that it was a good idea to leave it that way. And I agree with them.

Cantr minutes never were the same as a real life minute. Never have been.