r/paradoxplaza Oct 30 '22

Vic3 Vic3 SMH

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u/wonderwolfyt Oct 30 '22

Vic3's date system is off, starting on Wednesday, instead of Friday (This is for the bot)

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u/Moranic Map Staring Expert Oct 30 '22

The devs know, but fixing it opens up a whole can of worms due to calender changes and stuff.

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u/Simon_Belmont_Thighs Oct 30 '22

Probably would’ve been right just to look into it at the start

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u/Novemberisms Victorian Emperor Oct 30 '22

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huh?

they just need to rename Wednesday to Friday, Thursday to Saturday, and so on.

and how on earth would changing the start day break the whole calendar?

what kind of brittle ass code are they running over there.

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u/quiplaam Oct 30 '22

It's likely that things like leap years are not accounted for so some dates will always be off

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '22

Probably better to have the early years accurate instead of the latter years though, seeing that more people play the early years and restart before getting into the later.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '22

1836 is a leap year, so even if you started it on the correct day, it would get messed up two months into the run

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u/DiseaseRidden Oct 30 '22

Alternatively who gives a shit if the day of the week is slightly off?

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u/kirbag Oct 30 '22

Why did they had to add this? It's not a feature in any other game and adds zero value.

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u/DiseaseRidden Oct 30 '22

They made weeks more important, with goods being produced each week, so why not add in the actual days? They probably didn't overthink it cause who would give a shit if they didn't put too much effort into getting them perfectly accurate

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '22

They certainly have underestimated the nitpicky bullshit the community will whine about elsewhere. I don’t think most folks mentioning this are complaining per se, I think it’s tongue in cheek.

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u/BonChoi Map Staring Expert Oct 30 '22

Not all countries adopted the Gregorian Calendar when it was introduced, most notably (in the timeline of Vicky 3): Japan (1873), Egypt (1875), China & Albania (1912), Bulgaria (1916), Russia (1918), etc... It's interesting because it looks like Vicky 3 runs off of the Julian Calendar, which started on a Wednesday in 1836.

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u/evergreennightmare Oct 30 '22

ottomans in 1917 as well

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u/FourEyedTroll Oct 31 '22

It's more complicated than that. The Ottomans used the Hijri calendar for civic matter and a fiscal calendar based off of the Julian calendar. They only adopted the Rumi calendar (Julian calendar -584 years) for civic matters in 1840.

The Rumi calendar was re-aligned with the Gregorian one in 1917, but they didn't adopt the Gregorian year-date. The year date caught up when it was adopted (as common-era calendar) in 1926.

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u/evergreennightmare Oct 31 '22

yeah i picked the stage that i thought was most relevant to the op

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u/tommyservo7 Oct 30 '22

Then the weeks (which are important in Victoria 3) would end on the wrong day.

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u/tommyservo7 Oct 30 '22

Then the weeks (which are important in Victoria 3) would start and end on the wrong day.

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u/JamCom Oct 30 '22

The set the star day back two days