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From: Right behind you...
|  Posted: 2012-05-07 09:22
Hello Everyone,
So, I got bored today and decided to do some calculations to find out for how many(in-game) years the War has been going for.
I came up with a number of 313.5 in-game Earth years.
How did I calculate it? Well, I measured how long it took the Earth to make a full rotation in-game. I came up with a number of roughly 28.5 minutes.
Then I converted 11 years (which is roughly the time the game has been going for) into days, then the days to hours, and the hours to minutes etc. etc.
So,
11*365 (the amount of days in a year, obviously) = 4 015 days.
4 015*24 = 96 360 hours
96 360*60 = 5 781 600 minutes
Then,
5 781 600*28.5 (to get the amount of in-game minutes which have passed since the release of the game) = 164 775 600 in-game minutes.
164 775 600/60 = 2 746 260 in-game hours
2 746 260/24 = 114 427.5 in-game days
114 427.5/365 = 313.5 in-game years.
Or, the current in-game date (judging by History Galactica on the Wiki, the war started on July 23, 2258 CE) would be February, 2571 CE.
I haven't been around long enough to know if any changes to the speed of rotation of the Earth in-game were made, so these calculations should be correct if the in-game rotation speed of the Earth has always been the same. Just keep that in mind.
I would like to say a couple of things, first of all I'm kinda new to the forums (as you can tell by my post count. 1st post ftw) and I'm not sure if this was the right place to post the topic, but I'm hoping it is.
Also, I did these calculations in a hurry so I might have made a mistake somewhere. If you find such, please do tell me 
[ This Message was edited by: HeadHunter111 on 2012-05-07 09:28 ]
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| Posted: 2012-05-07 09:50
I don't know if this is right or not, but damn good on you for making the effort. Despite the game being more then ten years old, it does make sense that the actual war hasn't gone longer than a year.
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| Posted: 2012-05-07 09:52
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On 2012-05-07 09:50, Enterprise wrote:
I don't know if this is right or not, but damn good on you for making the effort. Despite the game being more then ten years old, it does make sense that the actual war hasn't gone longer than a year.
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Pantheon
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| Posted: 2012-05-07 10:23
Interesting!
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jacensolo
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| Posted: 2012-05-07 17:45
Blimey he did this all by himself.
Edit: notice a pattern emerging here?
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| Posted: 2012-05-07 18:10
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On 2012-05-07 09:50, Enterprise wrote:
I don't know if this is right or not, but damn good on you for making the effort. Despite the game being more then ten years old, it does make sense that the actual war hasn't gone longer than a year.
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He said "313.5 in-game Earth years." not days if that is what you read.
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Admiral Ruiz {Elite Firebolt}
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| Posted: 2012-05-08 10:21
I'll check that  Also, i wonder if smaller planets (in-game) take a shorter time to rotate?
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Thernhoghas (RO)
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| Posted: 2012-05-08 12:39
Something in your calculation doesn't seem right to me.
I have no idea what and I'm too exhausted from my most important (20% of my final grade) exam today (10 forking hours!!) to think about it more.
So I simply did a calculation in my way, taking your base values:
one day has 24 * 60 minutes = 1440
one ingame-day lasts 28.5 minutes...
so... 1440/28.5 = 50.526 ingame days pass each day...
so each year 50.526 ingame-years pass...
so... 11 * 50.526 = 555.79 ingame years have passed in 11 years.
could anybody review/confirm our calculations, please?
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| Posted: 2012-05-08 15:30
This is just my personal view, not anything official, but I usually assume the war's been going as long as the game has, so about 10 years or so. I suppose that's pseudo-canon, as I kinda wrote it into the description of the M-270 Carrier Cruiser: its development was originally expected to take only 3 years, but it wound up taking 9, making it one of the newer ICC ship designs.
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Mike Paradox
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| Posted: 2012-05-08 22:33
just checked both headhunter's and thern's calculations.
i would say that thern is correct.
at the step where headhunter multiplies number of minutes-per-year with 28.5 is where he makes a mistake.
28.5 is the number of minutes per ingame day, but we need number of ingame days per day.
n(ingame-days/day)=1440/28.5=50.526
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| Posted: 2012-05-09 01:31
Guys this is a game for Killing bugs
not math studying
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| Posted: 2012-05-09 01:34
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On 2012-05-08 22:33, Toby D Syded wrote:
just checked both headhunter's and thern's calculations.
i would say that thern is correct.
at the step where headhunter multiplies number of minutes-per-year with 28.5 is where he makes a mistake.
28.5 is the number of minutes per ingame day, but we need number of ingame days per day.
n(ingame-days/day)=1440/28.5=50.526
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Yes, I see what you mean.
Actually I did a pretty dumb mistake..
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| Posted: 2012-05-09 15:28
reminds me somehow of
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6mZZiI4ShQ
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| What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which has decimated a million worlds. The Core and the Arm have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination. Both sides now crippled beyond repair, the remnants of their armies continue to battle on ravaged planets, their hatred fueled by over four thousand years of total war. This is a fight to the death. For each side, the only acceptable outcome is the complete elimination of the other. |
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| Posted: 2012-05-09 16:52
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On 2012-05-09 01:31, Fatal Devil Dog wrote:
Guys this is a game for Killing bugs
not math studying
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NoBoDx
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| Posted: 2012-05-11 17:28
there is one major error:
a year is the time needed to circle once another stellar object
an earth-year is aprox 365 days
but the planets (+stars) dont circle at all in ds... so the time is standing still 
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