Got Your Descriptions Done?

[returner]

I don't understand why people are using inches?

All of Cantr uses the (normal, standard, accepted, worldly) metric system....

..except players and their player descriptions

[Piscator]

So in my POV anyone from 5'3" - 6'1" is normal height and doesn't REALLY break any "lines" of freakish. Though a six foot woman would look a bit weird. O.O

Not as weird as a six inch woman. Kinda happy though to break another line of "freakish".

[Rob Maule]

I don't understand why people are using inches?

All of Cantr uses the (normal, standard, accepted, worldly) metric system....

..except players and their player descriptions

Because the creator is from outside the USA and a large number of players are from within the USA. People will go with what they know. Though I think the only unit of measure in Cantr, not counting time (which follows original rules - 5,760 minutes in a year), is grams.

[Dudel]

So in my POV anyone from 5'3" - 6'1" is normal height and doesn't REALLY break any "lines" of freakish. Though a six foot woman would look a bit weird. O.O

Not as weird as a six inch woman. Kinda happy though to break another line of "freakish".

Well that's always a "hot button" in Cantr. Ya know... tails, extra arms... 8 + feet tall, etc.

I don't understand why people are using inches?

All of Cantr uses the (normal, standard, accepted, worldly) metric system....

..except players and their player descriptions

Cantr doesn't "uses the metric system". Cantr ONLY uses kilograms last I checked. There isn't even a mention of height, volume... anything. That's HARDLY the metric system. You could get away with "taller than average" if you wanna be a nitpicker but... err... what's average for a Cantrinian? yugo thinks they are smurf people for crying out loud! XD (Of course, knowing yugo, he could have been joking.)

It could be argued that anyone using any instance of anything other than kilograms (including meters [height/length] or cubic meters [volume]) is breaking the CR.

Side Question: Do you guys outside the US weigh PEOPLE in kilograms or just grams?

There is also no conversion in Cantr, either, as grams do not exist. You people make me laugh with your annoyances. Cake and eat it too? XD

[AlchemicRaker]

It depends on where you live IRL as to how your character is measured.

Like...

American player's cantrians weigh in pounds and are inches and feet high. But other player's cantrians can weigh kg and are meters high. Its sort of one of those inescapable facets of life.

Luckily though, these measuremental differences don't hinder the compatability between cantrians. Like, a lb-type cantrian can get along with a kg-type cantrian just fine.


Like...

You wouldn't hate me because of my blood type, would you?
Thats a rhetorical question

- Natso

[FiziKx]

Am I missing how to read the descriptions of other people, or has like no one made their descriptions yet?

[Dudel]

Am I missing how to read the descriptions of other people, or has like no one made their descriptions yet?

It is on the character description page with their clothes, etc.

[Saalko]

He is in his twenties and is skillfully working on ...

here is the text @Fizi.


@Rob, but the most players are from outside of the USA. I found an interesting map
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit ... 0626102318

Can it be that American girls are really small? I mean every inch and foot girl is in my eyes really small. (I have a small girl, but she is bigger than the most others.) And my tall girl is a giant.

[notsure]

Thanks, Dudel, for the tip. I was trying to hover with my mouse over the charrie's name.

ns

[Dudel]

Thanks, Dudel, for the tip. I was trying to hover with my mouse over the charrie's name.

ns

I did that too! XD I IMed Randi like "It's not working. I don't get it... I'm so slow." Don't worry, I doubt we are the only two people who did it.

And girls are naturally short... in fact I've not heard many girls taller than myself at 5'10" (there are some)... and I'm not even tall, tall. I'm just average height.

[Saalko]

1,7m is average for a woman. not tall.

[Piscator]

The average actually is more about 1.65m/5'5'', at least to this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_height
1.7m can be considered slightly taller than average.

[returner]

I don't understand why people are using inches?

All of Cantr uses the (normal, standard, accepted, worldly) metric system....

..except players and their player descriptions

Because the creator is from outside the USA and a large number of players are from within the USA. People will go with what they know. Though I think the only unit of measure in Cantr, not counting time (which follows original rules - 5,760 minutes in a year), is grams.

Sorry, what? That's wrong. Players in the USA make up a utter minority, unless you mean the English speaking areas. Even still, they'd be at a tentative half, if that.

Cantr doesn't "uses the metric system". Cantr ONLY uses kilograms last I checked.

LOL WHAT? It only uses kilograms? So nothing else, except kilograms? Um Dudel.. that's the metric system. Idiot. It doesn't officially use any other system.

Stop trying to draw blood out of a stone.

[EchoMan]

A kilogram is something unknown in the game. It uses grams. And pixels.

[Surly]

Original Cantr game was in English.

England uses a mixed system (i.e. grams for weight, feet/inches for height).

Therefore Cantr uses a mixed system.

Simple.