Okay, it’s consistent then. But it is still pretty short!
For convos sake/if you’re curious, Lotro’s rotation is 3 hours and 6 minutes and spread up like the following:
Dawn-9 m 32 s, between 6 am to 7 am (in-game time).
Morning-28 m 42 s, 7 am to 11 am.
Noon-17 m 47 s, 11 am to 1pm.
Afternoon-27 m 58 s, 1 pm to 5 pm.
Dusk-18 m 21 s, 5pm to 7 pm
Gloaming-9 m 30 s, 7pm to 8 pm
Evening-27 m 59 s, 8 pm to 12 pm
Midnight-8 m 59 s, 12 pm to 2 am
Late Watches-19 m 01 s, 2 am to 4 am
Foredawn-18 m 11 s, 4 am to 6 am
And repeat.
With this, creatures and certain npcs also follow the timetable. Trolls and sunlight sensitive creatures avoid daylight, and in towns some npcs will “go to bed” during the night and be unavailable until morning. (Mostly non-quest related npcs. But some quest characters will also have a timetable and have summoning bells at their house to wake them.)
I mean, it sort of has to be due to Square making rare nodes require you be standing on the node at the time it spawns (plus only one person can get it in that 20 minutes)
I’d love them to remove it altogehter and have a… shorter day/night cycle than IRL I guess? But not every 20 minutes short.
G-Witch S2 trailer dropped. Got spoilers for S1 in there if you haven’t yet watched it.
Missing Yaosobi already.
Suletta mentioned Miorine’s birthday. Nothing good can come of this.
Missed out on seeing the AI / ML Media Advocacy Summit live, but thankfully they’re posting videos of the panels on YouTube. For anyone interested, here’s an informative introduction to the issues of the newly emerged AI generators.
It’s a hot topic in a lot of places right now and I’ve been actively following the discussion online, where the lawsuits around the software are headed, the ethics and laws around datascraping, and the impacts these may have on many creative fields such as writing, music, voice acting, visual arts, photoshoot models etc. if left unchecked.
Join us for an AI/ML 101 and hear about the noise they have made not just amongst creative professionals but with the general public too.
We will also be addressing some of the most talked about concerns and solutions surrounding AI media generators, such as potential copyright infringement, licensing, job losses, legislation, security and industry bias.
Moderator: Karla Ortiz (Digital artist)
Panelists: Matt Cunningham ( Industrial Designer) Keith Kupferschmidt (President and CEO of the Copyright Alliance) Grzegorz Rutkowski (Digital Artist)
