Finding out your character's exact birthday?

TsunamiZ

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

Is there a way to find out your character's exact birthday?

im asking for the BIRTHDAY ... such as 7-28-2005

DragonFeast

DragonFeast

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2006

My basement.

Hand of Dracul [HD]

wow... /age...

onilink

onilink

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Consortium of Evil Monkeys

E/

/age doesn't give the exact age, only the number of months. I beleive TsunamiZ is asking if there is a way to determine the number of days his character has been around, probably to tell when its birthday is coming around.

TsunamiZ

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by DragonFeast
wow... /age...
wow... birthDAY = birth DATE

Jin Of Stealth

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2006

Elite Misfits United

N/Mo

is it that hard to tell that 12 months equals 1 year? /age will tell you your character's age. put 2 and 2 togather...

sykoone

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2005

Mystical Chaos

E/

I think he's looking more along the lines of "How many weeks/days are left until I hit 12 months?" The vague answer from /age isn't 100% clear.

SRckt98

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jul 2006

Blood Warriors

E/N

i had the same problem with my warrior, im pretty sure he is asking, specifically how many days are left till his birthday, 11 months doesnt tell you if its 1 day till 12 or 30 days till 12 months, so, cut the guy a break why dont ya

TsunamiZ

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

lol

im asking for the BIRTHDAY ... such as 7-28-2005

Mournblade

Mournblade

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: May 2005

Houston, Texas

Dawn Treaders [DAWN]

W/Mo

sheesh, what a bunch of smartypants knowitalls. If you can't answer the question then stfu.

I heard something about opening the gw.dat file, but mine is so large I can't open it.

TsunamiZ

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Jin Of Stealth
is it that hard to tell that 12 months equals 1 year? /age will tell you your character's age. put 2 and 2 togather...
the answer is not 5

widowdaballa

widowdaballa

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2005

TeXaS

Xen of Onslaught [XoO] Xen Of Heroes Division

Yeah, there's no easy way of finding out the exact day of the month that your character was created, but checking your /age every day until your character hits 1 year would work, although time consuming.

foxgirlie

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2005

W/Mo

Wow some of you people are very rude, he asked for a birthday, when you tell someone your birthday do you say... oh it's in November sometime?

It would be nice if Guild Wars gave an exact DAY instead of just how many months we played.

Shadowfox1125

Shadowfox1125

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2005

PST

W/

I'd like the /age function to say " # hours, # minutes as of ________."

VGJustice

VGJustice

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2005

Tyria, cappin' ur bosses

Boston Guild [BG]

R/W

Sadly, the only way for now that I've seen is just checking every day when you're at 11 months. Once it changes to 12, that's you B-Day. That's what I did for my main's B-Day, but I know how little that actually helps. I just hope your GW.dat isn't super huge, that could help a lot.

!!!nexus!!!

!!!nexus!!!

Banned

Join Date: Jul 2006

Minnesota

N/Me

I always write that type of stuff down just incase of an emergency...you should know your birthdate...my 4 year old brother even knows his.

Doug Clifton

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2006

Oceanside, CA

The Shadowed Assassins [DaRk]

W/Mo

Ok let me clear this up, there is NO WAY to tell your chars exact birthday. /age is all you can do

claver

claver

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2005

Sweden

W/Mo

just typ in /age and count yourself..

TsunamiZ

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Doug Clifton
Ok let me clear this up, there is NO WAY to tell your chars exact birthday. /age is all you can do
ANET needs to add it then

Mars Dragonblade

Mars Dragonblade

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2006

Awesometon.

Ministry of Fate [MoF]

W/

Only one month til my ele is a year old, but it would be nice to find out when I get my shiny new minipet .

By the way, 2 + 2 = 5 for very large values of 2...

Mars Dragonblade

Mars Dragonblade

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2006

Awesometon.

Ministry of Fate [MoF]

W/

Double post ...

Tyggen

Tyggen

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2006

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by TsunamiZ
ANET needs to add it then
/signed for a more detailed /age command

mega_jamie

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2006

UK

Warlords of Ruin

A/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by TsunamiZ
ANET needs to add it then
Not really, I mean as far as features go /age isnt very useful anyway, the only reason u use it / want it is to see when you get your minipet / subsiquent bonuses for Bdays. Theres alot more important things to add than to tell you whether or not which end of a 28/31 day cycle you made your character.

Im quite content knowing I made mine in December, and i'll just wait to see exactly when.

But yeah, why has everyone been so rude, although I did think /age gave days as well, but I must have been wrong.

ischuros

ischuros

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2006

Ireland

N/Me

How do you find the birth date in Gw.dat? Thanks in advance

logan90

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by ischuros
How do you find the birth date in Gw.dat? Thanks in advance
You can't.

cosyfiep

cosyfiep

are we there yet?

Join Date: Dec 2005

in a land far far away

guild? I am supposed to have a guild?

Rt/

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and its not always right----my hubbys character got his minipet on the day he joined his first guild.....that was NOT the day the character was created, as he was unaware of guilds at the time and didnt have the cash in pre-searing join in any case; he formed the guild when he got to ascalon post searing which was weeks after he created his character...........so I am unsure as to why they chose that date (and the date I joined his guild will be my bday, so at least I can look that one up...).......

Vilaptca

Vilaptca

Pre-Searing Vanquisher

Join Date: Jun 2005

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

I just looked at my first screenshot.

It was a couple days off... :? But still, I've used that method now to find out that two of my girlfriends characters and one of my brothers characters had their birthdays, so that I could hop on their account and check their present, since they don't play anymore.

Riken Chrono

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

around the corner and up the block

Hero

meh i write it down on a piece of paper and stick it to my computer rofl

ischuros

ischuros

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2006

Ireland

N/Me

just had a thought. If you kept your orginal charatcer through out, you could check the install date for GW and then that most probably be it's birthday. There's not many people i know that install a game and dont play it then. But this would only work if you have kept your orginal charatcer.

Hengis

Hengis

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2006

London

Better Than Life (BTL)

R/

If you still have the first character you created, and if you still have your old e-mails, you could look back through them to find your "Welcome to Guildwars" e-mail.

However, I did not get my 1 year birthday present until 1 year and 1 day by my reckoning, as I know I created my character on 24th July 2005 (and the Welcome e-mail confirmed this), but I did not get my birthday gift until 25th July 2006.

I agree that it would be nice if the / age command gave more detailed information. Even if it gave the age in days it would be an improvement.

tommarrow

tommarrow

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2005

Shyft Machine [MYTH]

E/

The only way right now is to check everyday until it changes then you have which day of the month it is. So if you are at 5 months check everyday until it changes to 6 months then you know you have exactly 6 months to go.

Tetris L

Tetris L

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

Germany

Servants of Fortuna

Quote:
Originally Posted by TsunamiZ
the answer is not 5
2.3 + 2.3 = 4.6

Now round to integer.

2 + 2 = 5

Mournblade

Mournblade

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: May 2005

Houston, Texas

Dawn Treaders [DAWN]

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by tommarrow
The only way right now is to check everyday until it changes then you have which day of the month it is. So if you are at 5 months check everyday until it changes to 6 months then you know you have exactly 6 months to go.
Thanks, but I think we pretty much already established that fact. =\