Why not add actual B-Day to /age?

hellknight17

hellknight17

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2005

AZ

W/

I was thinking about this today and it makes sense to me. I mean I know about when all my 12 characters b-days are but the actual date would be nice.

What do you think?

Issac

Issac

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2006

Earthrealm

W/A

I thought that as well, I guess it's kinda like a surprise you know lol? You get on everyday checking if today's the day, but it's not and then check the next day and it still isn't, then you check the third day and it's there and your all happy, then you open it and it's a jungle troll :S haha.

I pwnd U

I pwnd U

God of Spammers

Join Date: Oct 2005

in the middle of a burning cornfield...

Scars Meadows [SMS] (Officer)

[email protected] Pretty much that is how it goes.

More or less because it's really not needed, would just be an extra thing for them to put in but meh. More fun to wait in suspense.

TideSwayer

TideSwayer

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

We Farm Your [?????????s]

Hell, why we're at it why not add seconds to /age as well? Hard to use /age for time attacks (going for the best completion times on missions and stuff) if the most-specific it gets is the minutes spent.

Lugosi

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2005

If I remember this right, the /age command used to show quite precisely how long ago a character was created (months/days, can't remember if it also showed hours and minutes).
But for some odd reasons it was rather soon changed to what /age shows you now.

Konig Des Todes

Konig Des Todes

Ooo, pretty flower

Join Date: Jan 2008

Citadel of the Decayed

The Archivists' Sanctum [Lore]

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Lugosi View Post
If I remember this right, the /age command used to show quite precisely how long ago a character was created (months/days, can't remember if it also showed hours and minutes).
But for some odd reasons it was rather soon changed to what /age shows you now.
Unless it was recently changed in the last 24 hours, it shows days/weeks/months (once reaching 7 days, it goes to a week, 4 weeks goes to a month) since the character's creation, then shows how long you played it in hours and minutes. Then it says how long you've been in the outpost or instance, in minutes/hours.

The Arching Healer

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2006

Super Kaon Action Team [SuKa]

If I type /age my screen gets allready green because of XXXXX hours plays in XXXXX years.

Unlucky Slayer

Unlucky Slayer

RAGE INCARNATE

Join Date: Apr 2006

Sitting at The Guild Hall 2, being happy.

Nerd Clan [NK]

R/

Just make a .txt file on your computer with all your characters B-Days. Serves the purpose well. And it allows Anet to work on GW2 if they really are doing that.

AsyaMordina

AsyaMordina

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2006

Beguine Guild [BGN]

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Originally Posted by Unlucky Slayer View Post
Just make a .txt file on your computer with all your characters B-Days. Serves the purpose well. And it allows Anet to work on GW2 if they really are doing that.
I thought a year in GW was 365 days, so the actual 'date' may change. Since some of us may not have logged the creation date for all characters, the actual birthdate may not have been recorded.

BenjZee

BenjZee

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2006

The Overacheivers [Club]

Mo/

mostly because its hard for them to figure out your exact age etc especially because theres different amount of days in a month etc and the way it adds them all up. If i recall the changing of times such as daylight savings may also have effected this

slowerpoke

slowerpoke

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2007

Cuba

add it in title form, new non maxable vanity title, call it Veteran, displaying number of years. progress meter in the hero panel shows number of days till the next bday

Lyynyyrd

Lyynyyrd

Banned

Join Date: Jun 2008

Aussie Trolling Crew - Spah!

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removing the 14 day membership and 4 member requirement would have required a huge amount of work from our server programmers, and we could not spare those resources.
hard work is too much to ask.

Lugosi

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Azazel The Assassin View Post
Unless it was recently changed in the last 24 hours, it shows days/weeks/months (once reaching 7 days, it goes to a week, 4 weeks goes to a month) since the character's creation, then shows how long you played it in hours and minutes. Then it says how long you've been in the outpost or instance, in minutes/hours.
Umm...unless your /age command has a different output than mine, it only shows "You have played this character for xxxx hours xxx minutes over the past xxx months. Across all characters you have played for xxx hours xxx minutes over the past xxx months"

So really, about the "day of creating your character" it only tells you months - and not too rarely not even the correct amount.

Ultima pyromancer

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2007

Club Of A Thousand Pandas [LOD???]

Me/

ive been at 35 months on one char for the last year i swear but w/e

/signed

Eragon Zarroc

Eragon Zarroc

Atra estern?? ono thelduin

Join Date: Jan 2008

Madness Incarnate

[Duo]

W/P

shouldn't be hard at all for the emote to tell people the dates of birth. it's recorded somewhere, how hard would it be to display it in an emote.

KamikazeChicken

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/

I just made an Excel file listing all the characters, and I put the date I found their presents. It's not 100% accurate, but at least I know when I should bother looking.

Abedeus

Abedeus

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Jan 2007

Niflheim

R/

What if I have more important things in my life than writing down dates of birth of fictional characters?

If the game knows when character turns 1, 2 or 3 years old, it should be somewhere written.

flyinhigh

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2007

meh

wtfpwned

N/

its a little time intensive but you can find out your age of all your characters just run /age every day for a month and write down when they go from xx months to zz months. theres your b-day.

Rexion

Rexion

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2007

[Luck]

E/

I would feel bad for the people that created their character on February 29th.
Lol. wait 4 years to get a 1st year mini pet

Rexion

Rexion

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2007

[Luck]

E/

I would feel bad for the people that created their character on February 29th.
Lol. wait 4 years to get a 1st year mini pet