Larian Studios Forums Beyond Divinity (English) Suggestions Realtime clock

How about when you play the game in the afternoon it is sunny in the game and when you play late at night it is night in the game. I think that would be great and you can only sleep at night what makes recovery in the day a bit harder.


PS: Can characters grow fat when they eat to much?
Can you realy change everything on your character (thinking of 2 specific atributes on a certain female warior <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devil.gif" alt="" /> (charm power would then be increased while running would become harder))

Just some questions and suggestions <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

What about me playing at nights ? Will I be destined to wander in darkness forever ? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/puppyeyes.gif" alt="" />

Change your system clock <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/badsmile2.gif" alt="" />.

No <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

Love the idea if you can enable-disable it. Sometimes I wish games had real-time. I mean a day takes 24 hours.

Yes thats exactly how I feel, a lot can happen in 24 hours. Check out the show 24 on fox, what that guy does in 24 hours is insane.

Can someone answer my second question/suggestion?

I think real time would be unbelieveable. You don't kill armies in 30 seconds. You don't travel between three towns in five minutes. And you don't become an experienced adventurer in 48 hours. These games are made fun by condensing reality into a short span of time, providing some sort of rush in combat. Otherwise it be a click and wait for five minutes event!

And no, your character doesn't get fat. That's in Black & White though. With the amount of exercise you get, I doubt you could put on weight. At least you can't starve into a skeleton!

Ok. DD characters are about 1/32 of human size. So let the day be one 32th of 24 hours.

You have a good point HandEFood but I like some interaction to the real world in the game time is just one of them. What do you think about seasons. in the winter the landscape is covered in snow and in the summer the landscape is bathing in the sun.

Would be difficult to make on 2d backgrounds. Why not to wait untill DD2?
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Ok (waiting for <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/div.gif" alt="" />2)

one more question : Can you realy change everything on your character (thinking of 2 specific atributes on a certain female warior (charm power would then be increased while running would become harder))

Can this be implemented and should it be implemented <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/question.gif" alt="" />

The only problem with matching to real time is that it can make stories harder. And what does Winter look like in the hellish underground?

I like what Dungeon Keeper 2 did with the real world. It watched the clock and had special messages that it played at certain times. Midnight was always "It is the witching hour. Curses are half price." Every hour after that suggested it was time to go to bed. Black & White looked through your address book and use the names of people in it. It also logged on to weather servers and tried to match the weather where you were. But none fo these things affected the game and it wasn't hard to see the effort they put in.

If Divine Divinity copied the seasons or the time of day, you would probably only see a small portion of what it could do. If you only play at night, it's always annoyingly dark. If you finished the game in three months, you'd only see one season. And what about animals which are seasonal? And if you have a mission you need to complete under the cover of darkness, are you going to sit around for hours until the sun goes down?

They're all very cute and very good ideas, but I feel they're inappropriate for this style of game. Perhaps if they release a MMORPG version for Divine Divinity 2, this could be better, as those games tend to run for a very long time?

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Miss Busty Bust the female Wobblier
+100% Charm
-50% Speed
+20% Armour cost
-10% Agility
+20% Back pain

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> !

you forgot:

Natural armour for melee combat +45%

Hello, Jack Bauer.

I do find your indea interesting. I think, even seasons (summer / winter, spring and autumn) could be nice to see,l but would mean much more work ...

Alrik Fassbauer.

What?! I didn't know that!!! *runs installing Dungeon Keeper 2* oh cant' wait untill midnight! I never played at night, that is.

DATD just prooved your point <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

PS: I realy realy like "Miss Busty Bust the female Wobblier" any chance of a pic <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devil.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devil.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devil.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devil.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devil.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devil.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devil.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />

There was a... *cough* "wobble" mod for NWN somewhere. If you have NWN of course ;0)

Speaking of mods who is busy creating the *cough* "wobble" mod for <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/div.gif" alt="" /> and will theire be one for <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/riftrunner.gif" alt="" />. I just love games with a a great physic engine <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devil.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devil.gif" alt="" />.


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