Post by ∞TEA∞ on Jan 6, 2018 16:29:50 GMT -5
After a conversation in the chat a short while back regarding the different ways members were aging their characters and which is better, I spoke to Skulleh and she said that I could make a poll asking all of you what you think.
There have been two ways that members have been aging their cat, which I will explain below. Then please vote in the poll to let the staff know which way you prefer.
1 moon = 1 rl week, meaning 16 moons in a year:
This is the aging system that was originally started out with. It's pretty easy to do since each week you can age up your cat by one, or at the end of each month add four moons to your cat's age. Every four moons (a month in real life), a new season begins. But in the "real world" if you evenly divide the year into four seasons, you get three months each season, not four. Therefore, four months in each season times the four seasons will give you 16 moons in a MR year.
Skulleh said that she explains the 16 moons in a year as a different way of dividing time. In one MR year your cat would age the same amount as one regular year, which would mean that a MR moon is shorter than the months we have in real life. So if you say your cat is two years old, they are the equivalent age of two years old in real life. However, you have to remember when talking about your cat/making an application that their age would be 32 moons = 2 years, not 24 moons = 2 years.
1 moon = 10 days, meaning 12 moon in a year:
As mentioned above, evenly divided in the "real world" there are three months in each season. Since each real life month equals an rp season, a month (~30 days) divided into the three moons would mean 10 real life days make up each moon. It's not too hard to keep track of either, since... say that you started rping your cat on Jan 2nd. Then every ten days you age up your cat by one, so on the 12, 22, Feb 2, etc, you can keep aging up your cat. Though you can't do it on the same day each week, you can do it each time the date ends with "2". Or at the end of each month, you can age your cat up by three.
Because it's divided so that three moons are in a season, there are 12 moons in each year.
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Apart from one way having 16 moons in a year and the other way having 12, another big difference about these two ways is the speed of aging. The method listed first is faster--so as an example, you spend 6 weeks as a kit versus eight. Some of you may prefer your cat to age faster, some not.
1 moon = 1 rl week, meaning 16 moons in a year:
This is the aging system that was originally started out with. It's pretty easy to do since each week you can age up your cat by one, or at the end of each month add four moons to your cat's age. Every four moons (a month in real life), a new season begins. But in the "real world" if you evenly divide the year into four seasons, you get three months each season, not four. Therefore, four months in each season times the four seasons will give you 16 moons in a MR year.
Skulleh said that she explains the 16 moons in a year as a different way of dividing time. In one MR year your cat would age the same amount as one regular year, which would mean that a MR moon is shorter than the months we have in real life. So if you say your cat is two years old, they are the equivalent age of two years old in real life. However, you have to remember when talking about your cat/making an application that their age would be 32 moons = 2 years, not 24 moons = 2 years.
1 moon = 10 days, meaning 12 moon in a year:
As mentioned above, evenly divided in the "real world" there are three months in each season. Since each real life month equals an rp season, a month (~30 days) divided into the three moons would mean 10 real life days make up each moon. It's not too hard to keep track of either, since... say that you started rping your cat on Jan 2nd. Then every ten days you age up your cat by one, so on the 12, 22, Feb 2, etc, you can keep aging up your cat. Though you can't do it on the same day each week, you can do it each time the date ends with "2". Or at the end of each month, you can age your cat up by three.
Because it's divided so that three moons are in a season, there are 12 moons in each year.
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Apart from one way having 16 moons in a year and the other way having 12, another big difference about these two ways is the speed of aging. The method listed first is faster--so as an example, you spend 6 weeks as a kit versus eight. Some of you may prefer your cat to age faster, some not.
Let me know if anything was not stated clearly, I'm not the best at explaining things. I tried to make this as unbiased as I could, but if I missed any points feel free to comment below!
