[quote=PJ]Personally I think putting a year in those journal entries was always a mistake. At least a year that’s shown so prominently. Showing 2021 is out of character, showing 1899 would get confusing, and showing 1900 is also inappropriate for a game that’s meant to be in the Victorian Era. (Yes, you could write a story and say that in your world Queen Victoria lived for 10,000 years, so your futuristic spaceships are technically Victorian Era, but that’s cheating and you know it.)
From the very beginning the game should have said "London was stolen by bats about 30 years ago, in the early 1860s," and then stuck to that line no matter how many decades passed in real time.[/quote]
Well, I for one find the dates quite useful for orientation. In fact, I’ve created a datelist of echoes of the (very, very many) Exceptional stories and other lore-heavy bits of echoed content I’ve saved. For easy perusal of the echoed stuff, I found orientation via the dates simpler and easier than creating a hyperlink to a single particular echo at the beginning of the storyline.
Now this list (which for me is also an expression of my collectorial nature) is quite a bit less comprehensive, and using the real-world dates breaks the immersion whenever I wish to go through my Echo Journal. Previously, these felt like a rendering of my character’s adventures - fictionalized, literary and symbolical, what with allowing you to cover month-long projects within a single day, but nevertheless in-universe. Now it feels like… entries covering an online game I’ve been playing, pretending I’m someone cool and interesting for years on end.
The difference makes me feel rather sad.
edited by Sir Reginald Monteroy on 1/21/2022