Is it possible to switch the dating system?

[blackninja9939]

Its in the tooltip and you can mod it in if you want to fully replace the top bar date as the primary information.

Its not an engine limitation, anyone saying that does not know what an engine is and is just playing video game tech word bingo to try and explain things

It shows AUC as the primary date because counting down looks super weird. It works better in Civ because Civ aims to show you all of these time period via different technological ages and you progress through and mirror them all. Imperator doesn't do that, you play through a very specific slice of time and having your generals tell you they will arrive at a location in -2 years or that a truce will end in -5 years just looks plain strange

 

[blackninja9939]

Thanks for debunking that ‘engine limitation’ nonsense.

Then say that they’ll arrive in 2 years. I can’t believe I’m typing this.

Except they give you long form dates so you know exactly when, that means it shows the full year so it would still end up showing that they’ll arrive and count down to when that is.
Which is still weird to read

 

[blackninja9939]

And this is the part that would require re-writing code, no? Meaning it's not worth the hassle and easier to use a date system counting upwards, as the engine is already written that way.

When I have more time I am going to find this damn video of Johan in my head saying it would require re-coding (cant remember his exact words) so they chose to use AUC out of convenience. I don't even read reddit so I have no idea where I've dreamt this up. I'm determined to prove my sanity. Otherwise I will be DMing apologies.

In any case, dev clarification/input is always strongly appreciated.

Some parts would require refactoring sure, all dates are just stored as an integer which is then masked to get something meaningful out of it. But as proved by the tooltip already in game the masking lets you show things just fine. To actually make it internally count down that would require refactoring.

I thought it was really strange that you guys keep telling us that displaying the date in the standard way is weird. Kind of an oxymoron.

"Humans are used to add dates and have problems with substracting them" sounds like a much better argument. So thanks for the clarification

Words are hard do good language