[ratqueen]

The majority of people who do not like the way years move are primarily focused on the supposed 'expiration date' forcibly set on characters. This is probably the biggest source of the psychological impact, that you are not accomplishing enough with the time you have. That your job or life is preventing you from finding fulfillment in your character.

it's more so that at present having other responsibilities, or even other hobbies, means your character has significant gaps in their ic history, which is especially problematic during core developmental periods (childhood) that should be having a pretty significant impact on the person they become.

one extra day adds a week of time for you to toy around in the 11-18 range. two extra days adds two weeks to that range. it's a nice change for people who can't commit themselves completely due to work or family obligations or college courses or social lives or the non-eternian hobbies.

and for people who don't like playing children and don't want to spend more time in that era? don't spawn in as one, or spawn in as a slightly older one. age DR scales with your creation age now.

as for the argument that there might be less history + generations to reference, meranthe has a solid backlog of history now that it's over a year into the game, but really only the last handful of months are referenced 99% of the time anyways (e.g. the entirety of dal'thala's original cultural norms seem to have been lost over the year).

i say this as someone who, regularly enough, logs onto old characters and talks about things prior to that handful of months ago and bring a splash of the past to the present. i'd rather give people who have less time to dedicate to the game more opportunity to have an impact on their generation than I'd rather more generations where those players are more left out from the melting pot of events. quality over quantity.



side argument: longer years also delays the awkward moment where ever expanding family trees accidentally start crossing their roots. this naturally happens with small population sizes that have smaller pools of immigration, and every new generation of emporium posts inches us closer to this point. i can already see the crossing points from here.