Ability to Customize beyond the Universal Date
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Ability to Customize beyond the Universal Date
New Feature Addition · Timelines · Created by Bowmansson
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The Universal Dating is very handy, please don't misunderstand me, however ending up in the year 14,000 in a fantasy timeline if you are including thousands of years of backstory lore can be a little... strange.
I propose a way to have the option to alter the year numbers of each era they add, while keeping said era in order.
Example: XYZ Era years are 1 - 3000 | The next Era | ZZTop Era Years 1 - 3000This way each era could be somewhat separate from the others in a similar way that Tolkien had his 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Age having their own section of years.
The Team's Response
This suggestion has not reached the necessary number of votes or community support during its period of voting. The default system of dating in a world (under configuration) is a catch-all system in the case that a used does not wish to go further in than just two basic eras. You can created 10s if not 100s of Eras using Timelines and link events in these timelines to define events within those eras. In conclusion, the ability to create multiple eras already exists and it is also getting a major update with the introduction of Chronos which is currently in Alpha testing by the Alchemists (Grandmasters who enabled new features testing)
Current score
105/300 Votes · +12020 points
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by Pete Nelson
on 2021-06-15 18:02This kind of feature would also be handy for keeping the chronologies of dynasties and imperial reigns organized. In imperial China, each emperor would declare his dynastic reign and the calendar would start over again at 1, e.g. "in the first year of the Qianlong emperor"
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by Gangar4999
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by RaiganAvalon
on 2021-06-04 07:04Definently useful when you have a timeline, but hasn't done the timeline back to the start of time.
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by AvalonFaery
on 2021-06-04 00:22 -
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by JagerDa
on 2021-06-03 21:05 -
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by NoFree
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by Delicious Wall Meat
on 2021-06-01 16:55 -
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by Olivia Gratehouse
on 2021-06-01 01:41Would definitely be helpful, especially if each era/age could be named as well.
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by mastergentleman
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by Qually
on 2021-05-28 02:04 -
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by Lyraine Alei
on 2021-05-27 22:44On a timeline, you can have an Alternate Date display on events, and I think eras that would cover up the Universal timeline. I'm also personally hesitant to put forward ideas and things myself with Project Chronos (a timelines related project) on the horizon with its release.
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by Ralliz
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by LoneGirl88
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by Matgamarra
on 2021-05-27 19:39 -
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by dankinamun
on 2021-05-27 19:32 -
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by Bowmansson
on 2021-05-27 19:01
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