A question for UO historian's

[kulder]

Sorry to interfere with your evening but I need a date not a date date but a date, I started playing UO on December 11th 1999 what I need is the Sosarian date, also along those lines anyone know what time period Wing Commander was in

 

[Lord Frodo]

Sorry to interfere with your evening but I need a date not a date date but a date, I started playing UO on December 11th 1999 what I need is the Sosarian date, also along those lines anyone know what time period Wing Commander was in

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Commander_(franchise)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Commander_(video_game)

 

[Winter]

Is this what you are looking for?

Earth Year 1999 = Britannia Year 299

http://www.uoguide.com/Sands_of_Sosaria

 

[Pandora_CoD]

Is this what you are looking for?

Earth Year 1999 = Britannia Year 299

http://www.uoguide.com/Sands_of_Sosaria

Awwww what is Sosaria's 2013 then? SOMEONE DO THE MATH! *is horrible at math*

 

[The Zog historian]

Awwww what is Sosaria's 2013 then? SOMEONE DO THE MATH! *is horrible at math*

I guess 369, going by one Earth year equalling one UO year.

Edit: one Earth year equalling five UO years. That's what happens when I skip morning coffee.

 

[kulder]

Thank's Lord Frodo I looked there but must have missed the year

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Commander_(franchise)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Commander_(video_game)

 

[kulder]

Is this what you are looking for?

Earth Year 1999 = Britannia Year 299

http://www.uoguide.com/Sands_of_Sosaria

Thank's Winter I had forgotten all about Sand's of Sosaria

 

[kulder]

Sorry to interfere with your evening but I need a date not a date date but a date, I started playing UO on December 11th 1999 what I need is the Sosarian date, also along those lines anyone know what time period Wing Commander was in

I am embarking on a new quest, I am writing a book about my first avatar's life in UO. I came across my old Packard-Bell computer (don't laugh), with a quite an amount of screenshots I remember almost everything that happened in most of them, like the time I came across my first Ogre I was so entranced in how he looked , (most of my gaming consisted of pen and paper) that I was dead before I knew it.But I appreciate your responses

 

[MalagAste]

Each RL Month = one UO Year. If you want to know what year it is today in UO just go to our website http://uorpc.net/ It always gives the current date.

 

[Winter]

Each RL Month = one UO Year. If you want to know what year it is today in UO just go to our website http://uorpc.net/ It always gives the current date.

Either your posted date and calculation are off, or UOGuide is wrong. I don't know enough to say which is correct.

Accoring to UOGuide, it should be about BY 369 (5 BY = 1 EY). Your website says it is BY 493 (12 BY = 1 EY). So, where does the official information come from?

 

[Petra Fyde]

I don't know where this originates from, but the page we have gives this:
http://uo2.stratics.com/lore-and-history/britannian-date-and-time

 

[The Zog historian]

Each Britannian month, however, consists of 73 days.
This makes a Britannian year last 876 Britannian days, which is 73 Earth days.

Aha, I was wondering how one Earth day equals 12 UO days, but one Earth year equals five UO years.

 

[Rhiannon]

Does anyone happen to know if this is how the single-player Ultimas did it?

 

[Winter]

I was wondering if there is any significance to the Ultima zero date... somewhere during 1939 I think. It's not a family birthday for for Richard Garriott's family (he is only 52) and didn't find anything related to UO or fantasy, such as Lord of the Rings. Wizard of Oz's did first show in August of that year, but don't think that's it. Maybe it has no significance.

Anyone?

 

[Doubleplay]

I came over to UO when my Air Warrior buddies left to form a guild on the new online game. Still remember the Air Warrior days fondly.

 

[MalagAste]

Either your posted date and calculation are off, or UOGuide is wrong. I don't know enough to say which is correct.

Accoring to UOGuide, it should be about BY 369 (5 BY = 1 EY). Your website says it is BY 493 (12 BY = 1 EY). So, where does the official information come from?

Was that way for a long while then some idiot over on the DEV team decided to make it 10 times more complicated than it is and changed something messing things up far as I recall.

 

[MalagAste]

For the best explanation look to Martyna Z'Muir's post in this thread:

http://stratics.com/community/threads/15th-anniv-items-are-here.283908/#post-2174089

 

[G.v.P]

Very interesting thread. Helped pass the time along while I finished up Begging .