Patch Notes: A faster sky
A day online is now 30 minutes. Nights, full moons and quest hours come round four times as often. Midnight falls on the hour and the half hour, real time, and dusk at :22:30 and :52:30 (the Online page gives your own clock's times).
The sky
- The sun, moons, stars, seasons and calendar all run on the faster sky.
- The switch happens once, a little after this update arrives, at a moment when both schedules show the same hour. The sky never jumps. Until then the Online page says when it turns.
- A vampire waits at most 15 real minutes for nightfall, and the message counts it right.
- The world's business keeps its pace: shops, prices, guild shelves, weather fronts, gates and raids. The weather follows the sky's season and time of day.
- Gate and raid messages now give your local time only.
Werewolves
- Online, the full moon forces the change for its night only, from dusk to dawn: 15 real minutes. At dawn you can change back.
- Full-moon nights come two real hours apart, then none for fourteen.
- Offline, a full moon still holds you all day, as in Daggerfall.
Quests
- Quest timers now run on your own clock. Resting, waiting and travel spend them, as in Daggerfall: "come back in 3 days" is a 72-hour rest, about half a minute.
- Time away is still never charged. A closed or hidden tab costs a quest timer half an hour of game time at most.
- A quest's hours ("daily from 12:00 to 13:00"), the date and the season follow the sky. A daily window comes round every 30 real minutes.
- Journal dates match the calendar you see.
- In a party, each member's copy of a shared quest runs on that member's clock. When a timer runs out on one copy, it runs out for the whole party.
Fixes
- Quest timers ran a fifth to a third slow while you played, offline too. They count every second now.
Online saves made before this update move their quest timers onto your clock the first time they load. Older saves otherwise load as before.
What's Changed
- TIME: a faster sky online - the sky, the full moon's night and quests on your own time by @Lattymoy in #518
Full Changelog: app-v0.1.5433...app-v0.1.5446