Switching Time Periods
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What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
I made my world with a show idea and as a show that has numerous seasons and very large dynamic changes over the entirety of the show. It’s annoying writing articles when I feel like I have to write them from the end of time. Relationships between characters change and it’s hard to decide what time to write it from. Large gaps in time makes writing articles hard as I don’t know if I should write them from the chapter they are from or from the latest chapter. Writing them from the chapter they are from makes the whole world as a whole feel disorganized but writing characters all from the very end of the shows perspective makes persistent characters hard to connect with characters that only appear in early chapters How does this feature request address the current situation? Being able to switch between like 4 different time periods would help organize the different time periods and more clearly illustrate what happens in different chapters rather than writing them like their ancient history.How it could work?
Instead of having a modern day. It would be cool if we could create a new time period which has its own “modern day”. When editing articles, there could be a new section to switch between time periods. Each time period can hold different values for the templates. For instance maybe the price of an item changes from 1200 to 2020. However some parts, like the birth or death of a character could remain constant. If the death of a character preceded the modern day of a time period, or their birth came after one, the time period wouldn’t appear for that character.The Team's Response
This suggestion did not achieve sufficient support This has been one of the long term goals of World Anvil since its inception but I am not sure that you understand what this would mean for the management of a world/universe. This is an extremely difficult and complicated task that will require a complete ovehaul of the interface or an inteface of its own so standard world UI will remain unencumbered This will require extremely high support to be implemented - way above normal levels.
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by CherryBlossomTree
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by A Adorable Dimensional Horror
on 2021-05-20 21:24I would love this, currently working in three separate timelines.
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by Wernerknoesen
on 2021-05-18 13:12In a similar vein, it would be nice for the modern day to be something you can select(slider) so that if you want to run a campaign in a specific period all your page dates/ages/timelines will only show those visible during or before that period.
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by Jusdrein-Jusdaun
on 2021-05-14 17:28Love the idea, but completey unsure how it would be implemented.
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by Valerun
on 2021-05-11 06:21I would love to have the option for time periods in the same world, changing timelines and ages depending on which one you are using.
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by Wordigirl
on 2021-05-11 00:10I experience this as well. There are certain things the characters don't know/do yet, people are born and die, but I don't want to put a death date because they aren't supposed to know that yet. It is very irksome writing everything from the end of time just as you said. I would love this feature! God bless you and thanks for suggesting it. I know it will be a doozy to implement though.
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by Michael Chandra
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by brass_phoenix
on 2021-05-08 10:15This is a really cool idea, albeit maybe quite hard to execute well :). For another example of the issue at hand: the forgotten realms wiki writes everything in the past tense. This is because different dnd campaigns are set in different time periods, making it impossible to have a "present day" to refer from. The issue is that this makes everything read as if it is ancient history, even though for your characters it is the present day.
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by KajetanWrites
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by Drackmoor
on 2021-05-08 06:54Fantastic idea. Maybe there could be some sort of turning points, maybe even a timeline for how a person, place, or thing changed. Changes like price or other values could be graphed over time.
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by weejule
on 2021-05-07 21:23I love this idea. I would expand it to being able to switch between time periods and see how the whole world has changed. So you could click around on the timeline and see how the landscape has changed in your world with time period maps, how country relationships have changed, AND how characters have evolved emotionally, physically. It would be cool if you could see where your characters are at and what they are up to in that moment in time.
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by TEMS Novels
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by Careen Ligh
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by FictionFan1995
on 2021-05-07 17:57This would actually also be really useful for me. I'm using WA to build my world for fanfic series and a book series I'm writing, so being able to change or display certain things (like character relationships) for different periods through multiple books would be very useful for me.
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by NuclearWill14
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