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[Ziong18]

Normally when I sow flax on unfertilized soil I get back 1-2 flax seeds/stems per tile. Yet today I was collecting 2, 4, 6 seeds/stems per tile and 8 from fertilized soil tiles. I ended up getting back 1200 seeds/stems from sowing 300.
Is that normal? If it is, what could've been the contributing factors to such high yield?

[Valerius]

Weather.

[Ziong18]

How can I tell what the weather is like when I see no difference day after day (-_- )

[Valerius]

You can look at the sky to tell what the weather is. Best not to dwell on it much. Crops take 8 days to grow and you can't predict what the weather will be like in the future. Basically comes down to luck. Some harvests will be good, others not so much.

[Vamyan]

You can look at the sky to tell what the weather is. Best not to dwell on it much. Crops take 8 days to grow and you can't predict what the weather will be like in the future. Basically comes down to luck. Some harvests will be good, others not so much.

Yeah, until you realize the weather is static per 365-day year... Check out the xml file "Life is Feudal Your Own\server\data\weather\cm_weather1.xml"

The only problem lies in figuring out which server day it is...

[Tymefor]

or if its changed by a gm command

[Reaganomicon]

The only problem lies in figuring out which server day it is...

Watch the weather for a few days and find that pattern in the file. Now you know what day it is.

[JohanH]

Is there any other way to find out what (Server-)day it is? Maybe for us as hosters?

Greetings
Johan

[Willbonney]

The way we measure time was created in the Medeival era. First with the creation of the Anno Domini system, sort of the Julian Calendar with the birth of Christ set as the starting point, and then in the later Medeival era the Gregorian calendar, which most of the world still uses today.

Also at this time they were constructing some of the first mechanical clocks (both towers and personal clocks), as before most clocks were unreliable and were powered similar to a watermill.

Thus maybe seen in a later patch?

[Vamyan]

A bit of custom Torque script to determine current server-day:

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function sqlStartDateCallback(%sqlObj)
{
   if (%sqlObj.ok())
    {
       %sqlObj.nextRecord();
      $gameDay = %sqlObj.getFieldValue("gameDay");
      echo("Game Day: " @ $gameDay);
   }
    dbi.Remove(%sqlObj);
    %sqlObj.delete();
}

function sqlStartDateQuery()
{
   %gt = getGameTime();
   // 26-08-2017 21:37:25
   %time = nextToken(%gt,"date"," ");
   %date = nextToken(%date,"day","-");
   %date = nextToken(%date,"month","-");
   %date = nextToken(%date,"year","-");
   %sqldate = %year @ "-" @ %month @ "-" @ %day  @ " " @ %time;
    %nullObj= new RecordSet();
    dbi.Select(%nullobj,sqlStartDateCallback,"SELECT MOD(DATEDIFF('" @ %sqldate @ "',`Begin`)+1,365) AS GameDay FROM day_version LIMIT 1");
}

Load the code the same way as Baron's online character script, and just do a "sqlStartDateQuery();" in the server console. You may need to reorder the sql date based on your locale. The above works for en-us.

[Ziong18]

^can someone please translate that in English for me?

[Willbonney]

it's a server mod that those that run game servers can use to modify different parts of it. With this one to specifically tell the modder/server controller can run a check program to check the server day.

The game runs a cycle of the same repeating patterns of days/weather. I don't know the number, but I've read it somewhere. In a long loop.

[Vamyan]

365. It's a basic non-leap-year Gregorian calendar. I'm pretty sure they tied the weather into northern hemisphere seasons, most likely with more cloudy (bad) weather in autumn/winter, and showers/fair weather in spring/summer

[Eslake]

console and MG mode..
GetGameTime

Tells you the in-game date and time.

I don't know a way to Set the game time (no, SetGameTime() doesn't work)

But you can get there pretty easily by changing the passage of time..
SetGameTimeScale(#)
Where # is 8 for normal time.
Put in (2000) and watch days fly by.
Put in (2000000) and you can't see the days.

And if you put in (-2000000) you can watch the calender fly backward.