Erfworld time, how does it work?

[Sieggy]

Time in Erfworld is governed by the Theory of Really Special Relativity . . .

[drachefly]

I think more like it's governed by the Grand Marshal theory of Relativity.

[Housellama]

Time in Erfworld is governed by the Theory of Really Special Relativity . . .

Heh. Reminds me of a joke. If it's crazy and it doesn't work, then it's crazy. If it's crazy and it does work, then it's not crazy.

[tgriff02]

Hmmmmmm, let's just throw in a REAL curveball. How is time progressing for other sides far away from the current GK/RCC2 conflict? Time is relative, and it seems that the hex you are in sorts out the passage of time based on the events that occured in that hex, and sometimes the surrounding hexes that you are aware of and have observed, based on a complex mechanical system that progresses the Turn in such a way that a Turn is the equivilant of a Day, and yet one can accomplish more in a single Turn of Erf than could be accomplished in many Stupidworld years. So, for a side thousands of hexes away, that is completely unaware of, and not observing, the events of this war; how much time has this conflict taken for THEM?

[ftl]

A number of days equal to however many turns have passed.

A side far away doesn't see anything weird going on...

[tgriff02]

Are you sure? Since they wouldn't be directly involved in the conflcit do we know for a FACT that they share the same turns?

[bladestorm]

Are you sure? Since they wouldn't be directly involved in the conflict do we know for a FACT that they share the same turns?

Because time and turns are independent. Turns remains the same, while the time within those turns varies depending upon the Side and their actions. Sides not involved in the conflict view time as the passing of a normal turn, much the same as how Parson viewed a day while he was doing his rounds through GK city. How Ansom viewed those same turns was much different, since he entered realtime combat during the engagements. Regardless of how much time appeared to pass during the realtime sessions, it still was encapsulated within a Turn.

And if you are looking for FACTs, we don't even know for a FACT that there are any other sides in existence that weren't involved in this conflict.

[Boondoggle]

What we (think we) know:

Units interact directly in real time.
Units experience passage of time during the turns of other sides, even if they aren't directly interacting with other sides during that time.
Units on a side seem to share similar passage of time, even if they aren't interacting. (For example, Parson & Wanda hurrying to do whatever it was they were doing when Stanley left with his dwagons during TBFGK for fear of Stanley ending the turn.)

To me, this implies sides that somehow interact on a given day share a common passage of time. If sides don't interact, their relative passage of time doesn't seem to matter, so long as every side experiences an equal number of turns (ie, 1/day, and no Brigadoon/faery-kingdom business).

I also suspect that if there was some sort of strange temporal phenomena happening, Rob would have dropped hints by now. So far, the only thing that comes to mind dealing with the perception of time was Sizemore studying flowerpower in the Magic Kingdom, and I'm pretty certain that's an allusion to smoking pot.

[Lamech]

I realized something interesting about Erfworld time. If two sides don't interact they have their turn at the same time.

Now consider this, Side 1 ends turn in hex A, while Side 2 passes through hex A. Side 2 goes second. If they have an engagement or not is totally dependent on if they go at the same time or not. If they go at the same time no engagement. Or they can take their turns in succession and cause an engagement. Pretty cool huh?

[bladestorm]

I realized something interesting about Erfworld time. If two sides don't interact they have their turn at the same time.

Now consider this, Side 1 ends turn in hex A, while Side 2 passes through hex A. Side 2 goes second. If they have an engagement or not is totally dependent on if they go at the same time or not. If they go at the same time no engagement. Or they can take their turns in succession and cause an engagement. Pretty cool huh?

There's an overlap on that hex of two sides. Predictamancy and/or Fate steps in and turn order is applied. Side 2 will see dawn and not have their turn immediately, since Side 1 has to get to that hex and end turn. Jillian started in a hex, but had to wait until the High Elves came through before they received their move and could leave the hex. There was no conflict, but there was interaction. Probably the same thing when she met the three Archons. They probably had ended turn in that hex, and would have continued on their merry way once turn started and they had more move, but Jillian showed up and was out of move in that same hex.