What happened to the season indicator?

**Sirrvs** · 11-26-2006, 14:24

You know, the little sun or snowflake to show the season in the HUD of the campaign map? Where'd it go? It's there on the left side in the screenshots in the manual. Curious.

Also wondering why they decided to have it display turns instead of the year.

**Quillan** · 11-26-2006, 14:48

It's because the timescale is different. In RTW, you played 2 turns per year - winter and summer - from 270 BC to 14 AD. In this game, it runs from 1080 to 1530 AD, nearly double the length. Rather than make you play 900 turns, by default the game runs 2 years per turn, so there's no longer a winter or summer. The game does still alternate with the winter and summer campaign map, though. Your characters only age 1 year every other turn. By not showing the date, it hides the fact that characters don't age at the same rate that time progresses. Out of sight, out of mind.

**redriver** · 11-26-2006, 16:39

Originally Posted by Quillan

It's because the timescale is different. In RTW, you played 2 turns per year - winter and summer - from 270 BC to 14 AD. In this game, it runs from 1080 to 1530 AD, nearly double the length. Rather than make you play 900 turns, by default the game runs 2 years per turn, so there's no longer a winter or summer. The game does still alternate with the winter and summer campaign map, though. Your characters only age 1 year every other turn. By not showing the date, it hides the fact that characters don't age at the same rate that time progresses. Out of sight, out of mind.

that's a halfassed concept to come up with to cover the 3 eras.. instead should have done as in the original MTW and let ppl pick in which era they want to start their camps.

**Copperhaired Berserker!** · 11-26-2006, 17:42

Yeah, tell me about it. What you need to do is a little bit of modding to get it: A) showing the year. B) and progressing in two turns. There is a few threads about it, that will tell you how to do it.