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To those thinking of playing and those currently playing. I would suggest going to another game. Yes, it is a fun game, but this current staff has ruined it. There used to be reasonable people on the staff who would do their jobs and not act like assholes, those days are over.  
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Cantr time revolves around a slightly different system than the real world: 20 days to a Cantr-year, 8 Cantr-hours per day, each of which is 36 Cantr-minutes long. The current Cantr-time can be found at the top of any Cantr page (not including the forums and wiki).
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PD only looks after their friends, members of the staff and former members. If you have an incident occur that is serious, you will be lucky if they take it seriously. I have had incidents where they did nothing and they were confirmed blatant CRBs and serious ones at that. Yet, if you aren't in the good ole boys club, and they get a hard on for you then they'll do everything they can to ruin the game for you. The PD has currently been harassing me for about a month now over some personal issues. Some of them lost characters to some of mine and were in danger losing more to a pirate character of mine. The result was that they decided to take OOC action to prevent the deaths of these characters. They used their positions to protect their own and the characters of former staff members. They even killed one of my characters for insulting somebody. It wasn't OOC, it was in character, and there were even other characters taking part in it. But because PD was looking for excuses to take action against me,  they made up some bullshit to kill that character. To his wife of a long time, I'm sorry. They did it, not me. And it was all for nothing other than personal issues they have with me. I hope things work out for you and you don't kill that character off.
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== Cantr/real-world time ==
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One Cantr-day is equivalent to one real-world day. So, every three real-world hours will result in one Cantr-hour 'ticking over'. Each Cantr-minute is equivalent to five real-world minutes. Cantr-years are used only for role playing purposes and character ageing.
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In other words,  
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*1 Cantr Year  = 20 Earth days
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*1 Cantr Day    = 1 Earth day
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*1 Cantr Hour  = 3 Earth Hours (there are 8 Cantr hours in a Cantr day)
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*1 Cantr Minute = 5 Earth minutes (there are 36 Cantr minutes to a Cantr hour)
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*1 Cantr Second = 5 Earth seconds (there are 60 Cantr seconds to a Cantr minute)
  
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Development - (ProgD and RD) These people mostly work when they have too. I worked behind the scenes and was able to see what they really did. I used to think they worked hard too, but I realized that it was all a rouse. These people have pages upon pages of backed up development projects in the development forums. Most of these would be posted there and half would be ignored and eventually end up in the back pages of the forums. The other half might get a comment or two from development. This happens sporadically and there might be one or two comments made, it will get backlogged and half a year later some new member will come along and bump the topic. I tried to spur them into getting things done, which was effective at times, some older projects were completed because I kept spurring them into doing them. But most old topics bumped would be ignored like they had been for years. Many of these weren't major projects, plenty of these projects weren't even difficult to implement, they were something that could be added in one to two days. Another thing to note is that they do not treat everyone fairly in the suggestion forums. It is supposed to be a place where people can come to present their ideas for the game and they will be considered fairly. The truth is, if you really want your idea to be approved then become a member of staff. Look at how many accepted/implemented suggestions are by members of staff alone, especially development. The percentage of suggestions made by development staff that has been accepted/implemented is way beyond the percentage of the forum members made up by development staff. There a lot of people who have good suggestions in the suggestion forums, but their suggestions will not be approved because they are not in the club. I've even seen where development members (Greek and Echoman namely) will vote down suggestions, not because they are bad, but because they are too lazy to implement them. Even if they have 90% approval, if they are too lazy to implement it, it will not be accepted.  
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== Time references ==
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A Cantr-date is a daily-incrementing number. Time and dates are referred to in a format such as "1247-7". This indicates that it is the 7th hour of the 1247th day.  
  
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I can't play under this current staff and for those of you on the lower ends of development (Seko for example), I have no problems with. That goes for most other staff members. My main issues are with the PD (all of which are nothing but crooked bastards, especially Pilot and Bobby Bucman), Echoman and Greek on development. So just because you are on staff don't think this is about you, it's about certain members of staff.  To those of you I played with and who will see my characters die soon, I'm sorry. I enjoyed playing with you and would have liked to continue the role play and building onto our dreams. I can't play anymore with this current staff. It used to be a good game, but they have ruined it in my opinion. Maybe one day I will come back with a new identity when they are gone, if the game hasn't been completely ruined by then. You all wonder why veteran players are leaving? These bastards are a big part of it. Good luck to you all.  
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== Recurring events ==
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Each Cantr-day begins at Cantr-hour zero.  Each Cantr-hour then begins every three real-world hours thereafter at the same minute.
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All automated events in Cantr are based on what is commonly referred to as "ticks". There are project ticks, sailing ticks, land based travelling ticks, eating ticks etc. These ticks are run by cronjobs [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron] and occur at the exact same real time every day. The Cantr time they occur at may change because of server downtime or maintenance, where the Cantr time is frozen, while the real world time ticks on as usual.
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Currently the ticks happen as follows:
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* x.29 Animal attacks are processed
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* x.01 Water travel is processed
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* x.06 Land travel is processed
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* x.12 Projects are processed
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* 2.16 Automatic eating is processed
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* 2.25 Killing off starving characters
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* 6.34 Animals eat and drop products (feathers, dung, etc.).
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Mind you, these times will change if the clock is frozen or reset. This was last updated 4/16/2018.
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== Time-limited actions ==
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A character can attack another character or a pack of animals only once per day. Currently the limit is personal for each character, so you can attack again one minute later than you did the previous day. In the past the limit was lifted on the 12th minute of the hour, making it possible to attack in slightly less than a full day if you had attacked near the end of the hour instead of in the beginning of it.
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== Character age ==
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(Original Source: [[Age]])<br>
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Age works a little differently in Cantr.  Every character begins life at 20, and ages one year for every twenty real-life (and in-game) days.  A character that has existed since 1000, for example, will turn 34 on 1280. A character's exact age is visible only to that character's player, but his or her ''approximate'' age is visible to all, in their character description, as "A man in his twenties," "a woman in her fourties," etc.  
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It's now possible to [[Voluntary death from old age|die of old age]], but only if the player so wishes. Mandatory death from old age is unlikely to ever get implemented.
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== External References ==
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* [http://joo.freehostia.com/cantr/time/ Cantr Time Period Converter]. Converts between Cantr and IRL time or vice versa. Thanks to [[User:Joo|joo]].
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* [http://joo.freehostia.com/cantr/ticks/ Server ticks]. Shows the time remaining to the next of several different ticks. Thanks to [[User:Joo|joo]].
  
 
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Cantr time revolves around a slightly different system than the real world: 20 days to a Cantr-year, 8 Cantr-hours per day, each of which is 36 Cantr-minutes long. The current Cantr-time can be found at the top of any Cantr page (not including the forums and wiki).


Cantr/real-world time

One Cantr-day is equivalent to one real-world day. So, every three real-world hours will result in one Cantr-hour 'ticking over'. Each Cantr-minute is equivalent to five real-world minutes. Cantr-years are used only for role playing purposes and character ageing. In other words,

  • 1 Cantr Year = 20 Earth days
  • 1 Cantr Day = 1 Earth day
  • 1 Cantr Hour = 3 Earth Hours (there are 8 Cantr hours in a Cantr day)
  • 1 Cantr Minute = 5 Earth minutes (there are 36 Cantr minutes to a Cantr hour)
  • 1 Cantr Second = 5 Earth seconds (there are 60 Cantr seconds to a Cantr minute)

Time references

A Cantr-date is a daily-incrementing number. Time and dates are referred to in a format such as "1247-7". This indicates that it is the 7th hour of the 1247th day.

Recurring events

Each Cantr-day begins at Cantr-hour zero. Each Cantr-hour then begins every three real-world hours thereafter at the same minute.

All automated events in Cantr are based on what is commonly referred to as "ticks". There are project ticks, sailing ticks, land based travelling ticks, eating ticks etc. These ticks are run by cronjobs [1] and occur at the exact same real time every day. The Cantr time they occur at may change because of server downtime or maintenance, where the Cantr time is frozen, while the real world time ticks on as usual.

Currently the ticks happen as follows:

  • x.29 Animal attacks are processed
  • x.01 Water travel is processed
  • x.06 Land travel is processed
  • x.12 Projects are processed
  • 2.16 Automatic eating is processed
  • 2.25 Killing off starving characters
  • 6.34 Animals eat and drop products (feathers, dung, etc.).

Mind you, these times will change if the clock is frozen or reset. This was last updated 4/16/2018.

Time-limited actions

A character can attack another character or a pack of animals only once per day. Currently the limit is personal for each character, so you can attack again one minute later than you did the previous day. In the past the limit was lifted on the 12th minute of the hour, making it possible to attack in slightly less than a full day if you had attacked near the end of the hour instead of in the beginning of it.

Character age

(Original Source: Age)
Age works a little differently in Cantr. Every character begins life at 20, and ages one year for every twenty real-life (and in-game) days. A character that has existed since 1000, for example, will turn 34 on 1280. A character's exact age is visible only to that character's player, but his or her approximate age is visible to all, in their character description, as "A man in his twenties," "a woman in her fourties," etc.

It's now possible to die of old age, but only if the player so wishes. Mandatory death from old age is unlikely to ever get implemented.

External References

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