These last weeks I was tweaking the mod that deals with time of the day stuff. That reminded me of a long standing thing that from time to time is good to talk about.

It is stated in MANY settings how they work. This time of the day thing for example, literally states “this multiplier will multiply the TIME spent”.


The numbers are screwed up because I was testing the time mod

I am not a native speaker of English, but people who are gave me a paper, the lovely Professor who taught me in IH Madrid the proficiency course, which led me to go for the Cambridge Test was an English Teacher, not for “foreign language course”, but an English Teacher that worked for a long time teaching English in London before going to Madrid to learn Spanish.
So I am pretty confident that “multiply the time spent” means if you would spend 5 minutes at setting 1, you should spend 10 minutes at setting 2.
However if you take the sun and moon speed along with the sky, you dont even need an actual clock showing the time in game to know if the more you up the setting, the faster the speed, rather than greater the time.
So it would be more indicative if it was said “this multiplier will multiply the SPEED with which the time is spent”.

Which is of course not a practical issue, because one might find out eventually that is how it works. The problem there is little things like that are all around the place. In that, one does wonder: Would the devs responsible for the TEXT missed something, or the devs who made the system intended it to work the way the text says ? Because that answer brings a lot of other implications, if you think about it.

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