[Suggestion] Add day/season to Journal UI

[Suggestion] Add day/season to Journal UI

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Posted by: Forgotten Legend.9281

Forgotten Legend.9281

background:
with the introduction on Living Story season 2, the story journal was updated to include the year for each chapter of the personal story and living story as listed in the story journal.

examples:
when you highlight “Forming the Pact” in your story journal, you see 1325 AE on the UI
when you highlight “The Dragon’s Reach, Part 2” in your story journal, you see 1327 AE

suggestions:

A) please update the UI to ALSO include the day and season as shown in the living world season 2 wiki page: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Living_World_season_2

for example:

highlighting “The Dragon’s Reach, Part 2” would show “44 Season of the Scion, 1327 AE”

B) please add the day and season to the Personal Story chapters as well

C) please also split up personal story chapter 8: “Victory or Death” into 2 distinct chapters:

8: Preparations (or Crippling Zhaitan): story steps “Temple of the Forgotten God” through “Further Into Orr”
9: Cleansing Orr (or Victory or Death!): story steps “Hunters and Prey / Stealing Light / Marching Orders” through “Victory or Death”

D) UI improvement:

currently on the UI, when highlighing a chapter, say Gates of Maguuma, there is a large artwork on the right of the screen which shows the date in the bottom right corner (1327 AE) and then, underneath, there is a list of each story step, as follows:

Disturbance in Brisban Wildlands
Fallen Hopes
Tracking the master of Peace
Cornered
Prosperity’s Mystery

now, what i propose to to add the day and season to each story step, so that it would look more like this:

1. Gates of Maguuma 1327 AE
Disturbance in Brisban Wildlands 1 Season of the Scion
Fallen Hopes 1 Season of the Scion
Tracking the master of Peace 2 Season of the Scion
Cornered 3 Season of the Scion
Prosperity’s Mystery 5 Season of the Scion

now, i randomly picked numbers for the dates just to fill in the blanks, of course, actual canon for the dates are probably different, but it at least gives a better idea of timeflow in the game. the summary’s would still appear under each story step as they do now.

reasoning:
when people keep a journal, they tend to include a date, not just a year. there are other things that happen on those dates as well, and just looking at the journal will remind us of things that we didn’t write down, just because of the date recorded. and remembering those other things about that day brings everything into context.

for a hypothetical example:

Tracking the Master of Peace: 2 season of the scion 1327 AE. i didn’t write it down, but i ran into my old friend from Divinity’s reach: Riot Alice. it felt good to see her moving on with her life after Two Blade Pete almost ruined it. seeing her raised my spirits and renewed my vigor in the search for the Master of Peace. Amidst the muliple crash sites of the Zephyr Sanctum, she reminded me that i really am making a difference in this world, one person at a time.

PS: this felt like the appropriate place to post this…

– The Baconnaire

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Posted by: Jaken.6801

Jaken.6801

Wait a second… are these official timestamps, or just based upon the syncing of the calendar?

I know it is the wiki, so these infos might be wrong, but if they are true then the whole LS2 is even deeper in plothole land than I thought.

One of the main problems to understand the LS2 at the moment is that we have no timeframe to reference.
As such many of the stuff being “told” to us makes not much sense in a living world.

You basicly want them not only to gives us a timeframe, but also to push them deeper into their own “oversights” .

I mean, i even created a topic about it, asking for clarification on the timeline: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/lore/lore/Season-2-Timeline/first#post4313426

And one consensus was that we have no clue and that it makes no sense (aside from the “fact” that things happen in order)

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Posted by: Konig Des Todes.2086

Konig Des Todes.2086

I DESPISE the syncing of the calendars because it still makes no sense. If they’re going to do such, they MUST attribute to how Wintersday is supposed to be the Spring Equinox (and trying to place it on January 1st/December 31st just makes a big clusterkitten of things, like Halloween – said to be in Autumn – ending up in the Season of the Colossus).

The wiki’s action of giving specific dates fail miserably, because even after deciding to sync the timelines, the progression of events makes no sense. For example: the Twisted Marionette fight happened once and was succeeded, it was a repeatable event for the sake of mechanics and the playerbase; Escape from Lion’s Arch happened once as all the events deal with evacuating specific individuals – all of whom can be seen outside of LA (in other words, the hourly Escape from LA stuff happened once and before the refugee camps set up), and from Battle for Lion’s Arch (the Assault Knights and Prime Hologram also happening once) it sounds like Escape from Lion’s Arch was a single day, not two weeks.

We have no reason to believe that we can pin-point the exact day, because trying to do such puts a fall holiday into winter.

The only timeframe we’ve been accurately given – even with the “syncing of the calendars” – is that Taimi proclaimed that the waypoints wouldn’t be recalibrate for “weeks”. Indicating that the time between Taimi’s instance in Episode 3 and Taimi’s first instance in Episode 4 was over 2 weeks time, but we really don’t know how long or where the break lies, or if there was a break amongst the other instances.

Dear ANet writers,
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.

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Posted by: Forgotten Legend.9281

Forgotten Legend.9281

i’d at least like to have a season listed as a reference to when during the year the events happen. you know, like spring summer fall winter. but Tyria obviously doesn’t have seasons like that. i’m aiming for at LEAST a season name in addition to the year, or “Early 1327 AE”, “Mid 1327 AE”, “Late 1327 AE” would be acceptable, too.

– The Baconnaire

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Posted by: Goatjugsoup.8637

Goatjugsoup.8637

year is good enough for me

Most wanted in game additions: Beastiary, readable books

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Posted by: Konig Des Todes.2086

Konig Des Todes.2086

i’d at least like to have a season listed as a reference to when during the year the events happen. you know, like spring summer fall winter. but Tyria obviously doesn’t have seasons like that. i’m aiming for at LEAST a season name in addition to the year, or “Early 1327 AE”, “Mid 1327 AE”, “Late 1327 AE” would be acceptable, too.

But that would require ANet to put in more work for something they clearly didn’t think out fully.

Dear ANet writers,
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.