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  1. -h1. Unoffical Guide to Downtime
  2. +Pages under this:
  4. -h2. DT Basics:
  5. +* ((Downtime Actions Guide))
  6. +* ((Downtime Force Guide))
  7. +
  8. +h1. DT Basics:
  10. * Each Downtime is 90 days, no more, no less.
  11. * There are several categories of actions you can do, some take time, some
  12. do not.
  13. * Administrative actions generally take no time
  14. * Giving someone money or an item generally takes no time (Equipment and
  15. financial actions)
  16. * Co-ordinating with someone else takes no time
  17. * Generally anything else takes some of your precious DT days.
  20. h2. Samples
  22. For the purposes of this guide we have the following tech tree:
  24. -* Bake Cake: \"allows you to bake a cake!\" Takes 30 days to learn, 10
  25. -days to teach.
  26. -* Bake delicous cake: \"allows you to bake a delicious cake\". Takes 35
  27. -days to learn, 10 days to teach. Requires you know \"Bake Cake\" skill.
  28. -* Bake moist cake: \"allows you to bake a cake that is moist\". Takes 30
  29. -days to learn, 10 days to teach. Requires you know \"Bake Cake\" skill.
  30. -* Bake delicious and moist cake: \"allows you to bake a cake that is both
  31. -delicious and moist\". Takes 90 days to learn, 50 days to teach. Requires
  32. -you know how to \"bake delicious cake\" and \"bake moist cake\".
  33. -
  34. +* Bake Cake: "allows you to bake a cake!" Takes 30 days to learn, 10 days
  35. +to teach.
  36. +* Bake delicous cake: "allows you to bake a delicious cake". Takes 35
  37. +days to learn, 10 days to teach. Requires you know "Bake Cake" skill.
  38. +* Bake moist cake: "allows you to bake a cake that is moist". Takes 30
  39. +days to learn, 10 days to teach. Requires you know "Bake Cake" skill.
  40. +* Bake delicious and moist cake: "allows you to bake a cake that is both
  41. +delicious and moist". Takes 90 days to learn, 50 days to teach. Requires
  42. +you know how to "bake delicious cake" and "bake moist cake".
  43. * Brew tea. Cannot be learned on your own, requires you to study a
  44. -\"teapot lammie\" for 75 days. It can be taught in 25 days.
  45. +"teapot lammie" for 75 days. It can be taught in 25 days.
  48. h2. Time taken and things happening
  50. h3. Linear Actions:
  52. First thing for actions that take time, is that you add them to your
  53. character lineally - from start to finish. The system will fill in your DT
  54. from day 1 to day 90, so you have to enter actions in the right order. If
  55. you want to change things it becomes a pain in the neck as you have to
  56. cancel all the actions that followed it.
  58. The one exception to this rule is teaching offers that have yet to be
  59. accepted. If your friend offers to teach you from days 50-55, then until
  60. you accept that offer the DT system will ignore it so far as your actions
  61. -are concerned as you haven\'t done anything with it. As soon as you accept
  62. +are concerned as you haven't done anything with it. As soon as you accept
  63. that offer then that is your action, and any more actions you add will come
  64. after it.
  66. Thus the lesson to the wise: do not accept late-season teaching offers
  67. -until you are very sure your earlier stuff won\'t change.
  68. +until you are very sure your earlier stuff won't change.
  71. h3. Things happening
  73. Actions that do not take time generally happen instantly, if you select to
  74. give someone money, the money appears right away in their character screen.
  75. You can cancel this action up until the point they do something with the
  76. -money/item, then it\'s locked and only they can cancel it.
  77. +money/item, then it's locked and only they can cancel it.
  79. If something takes time, then it does **NOT** actually happen until the
  80. -end of downtime when Matt presses the big **\"MAKE DOWNTIME HAPPEN\"**
  81. +end of downtime when Matt presses the big **"MAKE DOWNTIME HAPPEN"**
  82. button. Until that point it is merely an action in potential.
  84. -For example, you spend the first 30 days of DT learning \"bake cake\",
  85. -even though you only need 30 days to learn the skill, you cannot spend the
  86. -next 10 actually baking a cake, nor can you teach it to someone that
  87. -downtime. Nor can you self learn the next level in cake baking \"bake
  88. -moist cake\".
  89. +For example, you spend the first 30 days of DT learning "bake cake", even
  90. +though you only need 30 days to learn the skill, you cannot spend the next
  91. +10 actually baking a cake, nor can you teach it to someone that downtime.
  92. +Nor can you self learn the next level in cake baking "bake moist cake".
  94. At the next event your character will have gained the skill and it will be
  95. available to use at the event and following downtimes. In the downtime
  96. -\"bake delicious cake\" and \"bake moist cake\" will appear in your
  97. -research options.
  98. +"bake delicious cake" and "bake moist cake" will appear in your research
  99. +options.
  101. The 1 exception to this rule is if you are being taught pre-requiste
  102. skills by someone else.
  103. -Say your friend knows \"bake delicious and moist cake\" this requires you
  104. -to know \"bake cake\" (10 days), \"bake moist cake\" (10 days), \"bake
  105. -delicious cake\" (15 days) and itself takes 50 days to teach.
  106. +Say your friend knows "bake delicious and moist cake" this requires you to
  107. +know "bake cake" (10 days), "bake moist cake" (10 days), "bake delicious
  108. +cake" (15 days) and itself takes 50 days to teach.
  109. If your friend selects to teach you to bake delicious and moist cake for
  110. 50 days, the DT system will work out that you need to know other
  111. cake-baking skills first and so will spend 10 days teaching you cake
  112. baking, 10 teaching you moist cake baking, 15 teaching you delicious cake
  113. baking and the rest teaching delicious and moist cake baking.
  116. h3. DT system auto-calculating
  118. -
  119. For skill teaching, you can opt to set the number of days you are
  120. teaching. If you do not fill in the number of days, the system will
  121. automatically set it to the number of days required to teach the skill. If
  122. you set the number of days to higher than required to teach the skill, the
  123. system will automatically lower it!
  125. Now lets assume that you already know delicious cake baking and moist
  126. baking. And you have 2 friends, Weebl and Bob who have agreed to teach you
  127. delicious and moist baking. Weebl can teach you for the first 30 days, bob
  128. can finish you off for the next 20.
  130. -When bob comes to teach you, he is a bit lazy and just selects \"teach
  131. -delicious cake\" without specifying the number of days. Initally the
  132. +When bob comes to teach you, he is a bit lazy and just selects "teach
  133. +delicious cake" without specifying the number of days. Initally the
  134. teaching offer will come in taking up 50 days. **When you click ACCEPT**
  135. to bobs teaching the DT system will automatically lower the number of days
  136. required to 20 because you have already had 30 days of teaching from weebl.
  137. Note that this happens when you click accept, so if bob has already put in
  138. other actons for alter he will now have a big 30 day gap in his DT.
  140. Note this is a slight change: previously the DT system could not do this
  141. kind of calculation to take account of teaching that was happening in the
  142. same downtime (because it had not yet been processed), Matt P made the
  143. changes earlier this year so it will now account for your current DT
  144. actions as well as past ones.
  147. h2. Associates and allies
  149. If there are people you interact with a lot, add them as allies. That way
  150. they appear in a dropdown box for all your actions!
  153. h2. Projections
  155. Unless you are dealing with food provisioning for you
  156. -colony/friends/whatever you don\'t have to worry about this, even if it
  157. -says that everyone will starve! Don\'t panic, your character will still
  158. -find food, possibly by eating the NPCs.
  159. +colony/friends/whatever you don't have to worry about this, even if it says
  160. +that everyone will starve! Don't panic, your character will still find
  161. +food, possibly by eating the NPCs.
  164. h3. Known locations
  166. You only know about places your character has been to and done things at.
  167. See act at locations below.
  170. h2. Inventory
  172. Unless you specify otherwise, your character is assumed to be carrying
  173. everything that is in your inventory. That means that they will use them if
  174. in combat, and can potentially lose them
  176. To prevent this, use the store function to stash them under your bed, you
  177. -can\'t use them, but they can\'t be looted off you.
  178. +can't use them, but they can't be looted off you.
  180. Hiding: Your character still has the item (so if you hide your armour you
  181. would still have it in a fight) but cannot select it to perform actions
  182. with. This is an older mechnic that played more a part when stealing was
  183. an option. Matt P is considering removing it.
  186. h2. Paying Money and Incurring Debt
  188. Some things in DT require you to pay for them. This will be in a specific
  189. currency dictated by the area of the new world you are in.
  191. -__**They will only accept payment in that form of currency. There is no
  192. -way in DT to convert from 1 currency to another.**__
  193. +h3. They will only accept payment in that form of currency. There is no
  194. +way in DT to convert from 1 currency to another.
  196. -If you don\'t have the money you can incur a debt with the new world
  197. +Don't bother emailing PD. Just don't, your only way nto convert money is
  198. +with other players.
  199. +
  200. +If you don't have the money you can incur a debt with the new world
  201. creditors.
  203. -If you don\'t pay this debt next DT you will be blacklisted (unable to
  204. +If you don't pay this debt next DT you will be blacklisted (unable to
  205. borrow any more from them) and incur (a ruinous rate of) interest on the
  206. debt. Like the ordinary people, the creditors will only accept currency
  207. that the debt is in.
  209. -It doesn\'t matter if your debt is for 1 silver ducatto, they won\'t
  210. -accept your 5 Mark piece and you will be black-listed for that downtime.
  211. +It doesn't matter if your debt is for 1 silver ducatto, they won't accept
  212. +your 5 Mark piece and you will be black-listed for that downtime.
  214. __Advice: check what your debts are when the DT results come out and make
  215. sure you change some money in uptime to pay them.__
  218. -h2. Depositing Money
  219. +h2. Depositing Money
  221. -There is a downtime facility to deposit money with the Ramici C'apell.
  222. -This money will not appear in your event pack, and so its useful for
  223. -storing money that you only use in DT (if for example you incur debts in a
  224. -currency other than your characters primary one). Please note: The
  225. -players in the Ramici Capell trade house have **NO** access to this money,
  226. -__you cannot access it at an event!__
  227. +There is a downtime facility to deposit money with the Ramici Capell. This
  228. +money will not appear in your event pack, and so its useful for storing
  229. +money that you only use in DT (if for example you incur debts in a currency
  230. +other than your characters primary one). Please note: The players in the
  231. +Ramici Capell trade house have **NO** access to this money, __you cannot
  232. +access it at an event!__
  235. h2. News
  236. +
  237. During Downtime stuff will happen. If your character is in the area when
  238. it happens (due to being taught, acting at location or moving themselves)
  239. they may hear about it. Learn to enjoy this.
  241. News reports are based on what your alligence is and it is entirely
  242. possible that 2 different people will get 2 different (and contradictory)
  243. versions of the same event. Learn to enjoy this even more.
  245. -h2. Crafting stuff
  247. -Another change to the DT system is the ability for crafters to start
  248. -crafting something, then put it on hold and craft something else.
  250. -http://forums.rule7.co.uk/Topic90869-37-1.aspx
  251. +h2. Praying
  252. +
  253. +You can pray in DT. Praying is under your Character screen, not the
  254. +downtime screen. Click the character screen, select your character, and on
  255. +the character page there will be a line of buttons running down the right
  256. +hand side. One of them is "submit prayer".

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