I'd love to be able finalize the date once and for all and resolve all the various reference points we've had over the years. I thought we got pretty close with the Sands of Sosaria reward items, but if we need to fix it by all means feel free to PM me.
Adding the Britannia or real world date to the animal lore gimp I think would be pretty neat feature for a future pet update.
Also, don't forget we're Broadsword now
Personally I like the idea of time references having a certain element of subjectivity.
If we use UO time strictly, certain things can take hours or days in a manner that'd completely break the spell.
Most people who actually
imagine this stuff while they are playing it, role-players and those who say they aren't but actually are at least in part, seem either to split the difference or to imagine that RL time = UO time for some purposes (conversations, fights) but assume UO time for certain other purposes (aging of a child).
Seen in that light, attempting to nail down UO time may well cost us more than it gains us.
I liked Sands of Sosaria myself. Attempts I've heard to belittle or quibble with them, I've found, at the most, often petty.
Having said that, for your own internal purposes you absolutely need a definitive chronology, in both RL time and UO time. Frankly I'm a little tired of retcons, even though perhaps there haven't been as many over the years as some think, I'm still tired of them. Even Great Lakes's ever-capable Event Moderators can only do so much when it comes to imposing the semblance of consistency on what goes on.
-Galen's player
