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Wot's all this then?! It's just a fantasy game. Life can be whatever the writers, artists, developers, etc can imagine. Isn't that the way it should be? There are a slew of sci-fi games out there that have created life on planets where "scientifically" life should not exist, according to us earthlings. Make it so, Commander Shepard! Personally, I think we on this planet are too high on ourselves. How can there be zero life out there on other planets. How can we humans be so self-centered to think that we are the only sentient beings in the entire universe and life in it revolves around us. Bleh, I don't want to spark another off-topic discussion.

11-11-11 - http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Interpret-111111-Friday-November-11-2011-And-a-Metaphysics-Experiment-111111

It's possible that the meat of the game is pretty much done. I don't know for sure as we're getting varying answers all over the Net. But even if they are finished most of the gameplay, isn't it great that they aren't rushing this thing out? Gives them time to squash as many bugs as possible and polish up the graphics as well as time to optimize separately for ALL 3 platforms and not just port over something that only works well for one system but svcks on the others. svcks that we have to wait so long but I prefer the "take your time and make something great" method as opposed to the "let's rush this to market to make as much money as possible upon release and then patch it later to fix bugs we already knew about but didn't want to fix because it would have pushed back the release date."

On a side note, I think I remember reading something about 11 11 11 symbolizing dragon claw marks, as ActionHitman mentioned...

It's because BSG is pushing this one to eleven.



By definition the planet is getting the same dose of radiation in both cases, just at a different day/night frequency. I think you are postulating that the global climate will change linearly from what we have here on Earth to...



... as the rotation of the planet slows to zero. In reality, even a tiny rotation may be enough to sustain a thriving biosphere, especially if there were large oceans supporting a well-developed and turbulent atmosphere. Look at Venus, it rotates less than twice per orbit, but you don't see temperatures on the dark side falling to frigid lows, nor temperatures on the day side getting wildly hotter than average (which is admittedly already pretty high!). The churning of the atmosphere around the planet distributes the heat from the light side to the night side and back, maintaining a near equilibrium. In fact, it's atmosphere actually rotates faster than the planet itself, almost once every 4 Earth days. Venus' only problem is that it has too much atmosphere and of the wrong type.

It is only when a planet's rotation actually stops that the wind patterns would change to cause the tidally locked situation you describe above. Really, meteorological phenomena and celestial mechanics is a lot more unpredictable than you make it out to be.

HEEEeee what a fun thread LOL


Erm, to take that one step further, doesn't the day length remain constant? It's the ammount of daylight that changes with the seasons with respect to one point. However, the seasons are around because of the tilted axis. Therefore, daylight length depends on a tilted axis, yes?

Now, on topic: I'm sure it's a combination of practical timeline management and marketing.

Because it′s a memorable date and it′s near the "Christmas season"

Why is the sky blue, because it just is

exactly, easy to remember, looks cool and bulds anticipation ( genius )

Some developers do crap like that for some reason. Like how Bungie releases stuff on July 7th.

Why not? Cause 11/11/11 only happens once every one hundred years. Bethesda probably had to reserve that as their release date like a year in advance.

Rememberance day in Britain

to make you ask questions

They are releasing it that day because it is my birthday and a holiday for all us canadians!!! more time to play the game, woot!

Dudes, they're releasing on that day because it's the 2nd friday of November, which is one of the best times to release a game if you are looking to make some money.

That brings up a good point..they could have done it because some people would be off of work/school.

Disclaimer: Release date is subject to change.

Not according to Gstaff and Pete who said its guarenteed. They never release a date for a TES game until they are entirely sure.

Roses are red, Violets are blue... The release date is 11/11/11 is that good enough for you?
lol joking, but in terms of what it is about? It is likely just a marketing thing.

Now I think about it 11-11-11 only happens one time. There's no other date that has 6 of the same numbers lined up.

edit - posted at 1:11 PM here too. didn't plan that.

11/11/11
11/11/1011
11/11/2011
11/11/3011

etc... :hehe:

They should release it at 11:11:11 AM on 11/11/11

One: because it should be ready by then.

Two: it's catchy.

Three: You can turn the letters in "Skyrim" sideways to get it. Try turning S-K-Y-R-I-M into "11/12/11" and still have a decent graphical effect for it.

Publishers don't reserve release dates. They are free to release whenever they want.

Skyrim should be a massive hit. Coming off the success Oblivion and Fallout 3 and then with a huge holiday release and the 11.11.11 friday release date things are set up very nicely. Add in all the money Beth is going to throw into the marketing campaign and things are looking good.

Wait, there's also 11/11/1111, 11/11/1211, 11/11/1311, etc. I just wasn't thinking about it like that. 6 ones is still the coolest of the dates with numbers lining up, and it's the only one with 6.

Yes and than that could be translated into 666 since 1+1+1=3, 1+1+1=3, 3+3=6 and there are two 3s which is .....um ya ok so i forgot where i was going with this -__- either way alot of people are saying it means diffrent things but i like the 11/11/11 date just which it was here with everything perfect

Why is the release date 11-11-11?
Why is Mayonnaise white?
Why is the sky blue?
Why is TES awesome?

Because it just is? Who cares, and why is it an issue with people? Just ridiculous. :rolleyes:

I second that