[Suggestion] Add day/season to Journal UI
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)
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.
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
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.
year is good enough for me
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.
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.