Is it just picked to make us wait? Is it the time of an important event in Cyrodiil? Did they estimate that was the time to release it? I think it was a deadline just randomly selected but I'm not sure and that's why I'm asking.

Because it's cool.

Because it only happens once every 100 years

why not? if the release date was any other date i guess you could be asking the same question.

Why is Mortal Kombat spelt with a K?

Well yeah but I was wondering if that date had any significance in the lore, like with the Fallout series they usually try to release in October since thats when the bombs dropped.

Well they don't have the same months/years as us in TES, so i doubt there was anything in the lore about it.

11-11-11

That's 6 ones lined up together! Final Fantasy 8 and Sega Dreamcast were both released 9-9-99. It gets attention and makes it seem cooler.

I think that it's just for cool factor and that's that.

Because it's cool.



Yes they do. TES uses our calender system with different names for months and days.

oh really? same amount of days in each month as well?

thats strange that Tamriel rotates and revolves around thier sun the at the same exact rate as Earth... kinda disappointing IMO

Here is a link to the calendar: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Calendar

You should pay more attention in science class and maybe read a few science fiction novels while you're at it. In order for carbon based lifeforms (that's us, btw) to be able to live certain conditions must first be met. I won't mention most of it, as it would probably go right over your head, but the day/night cycle is important and needs to be similar to Earth's (otherwise plants get too much sunlight or too little and die off, and no oxygen is produced, and all higher lifeforms die). The length of the year would be comparable to ours, but would naturally have some variation.

And so on.

What about the tides? Tide comes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. Can't explain that.



"You should pay more attention in science class and maybe read a few science fiction novels while you're at it. In order for carbon based lifeforms (that's us, btw) to be able to live certain conditions must first be met. I won't mention most of it, as it would probably go right over your head, but the day/night cycle is important and needs to be similar to Earth's (otherwise plants get too much sunlight or too little and die off, and no oxygen is produced, and all higher lifeforms die). The length of the year would be comparable to ours, but would naturally have some variation."

Well, this is an interesting conversation. First of all, plants on earth have evolved according to earth's day/night cycle. If earth had a 36 hour day with 10 hours of dark, plants would have evolved in a way such that they could tolerate that system.

However, there ARE some conditions based on Earth's specific position, rotation, revolution, etc that are necessary for life as we know it. For one, our atmospheric temperature allows for water to be liquid most of the time. This is important for the development of life, as liquid water acts as a solvent for many chemicals, allowing them to form together in various compounds. Water itself has several unique properties, the way it's Hydrogen bonds cause it to act, etc, and I believe there's only one or two other compounds which could allow for earth-like life, or any life at all really.

It's not nearly as disappointing as you would think; Nirn doesn't revolve around their sun.
Their "sun" isn't even what you'd think of as a sun; it's a rip in the fabric of reality. One of the early spirits that took part in creation, Magnus, decided he didn't want to stick around, so he fled Mundus, tore a hole in the sky, and returned to the Aetherius above.
Sunlight is magic leaking through the whole from Aetherius.

(On topic: Someone said 11/11/11 is a date that only occurs every one hundred years. That's true, but it's true for ANY date in the same format. 02/01/92 only occurs once in a hundred years, for example.)

.... Or it could be that 11/11/11 is a Friday, and that is a heck of a lot better than the game being released on a Tuesday, right in the middle of a work/school week.

You're being ridiculous, not to mention condescending.
Plants need our day/night cycle only because it's the one they've evolved to utilize; there is absolutely no reason why they couldn't thrive in a 15 hour day, 15 hour night cycle if that was the one they had formed in.
The puddle fits the hole, not the other way around.

From a developer's standpoint, Nirn only shares our calendar and time system for the sake of convenience, and not biological necessity.

There is no reason to be degrading!
We are talking about a game here, bethseda do not have to obey all physical rules. It is a fantasy game and the guy is allowed to be disappointed if he hoped for a more creativity - that is his choice.
I see no reason for you to bite his head off!

And btw you cannot be sure about that. If earths day/night cycle was different life theoretically could have evolved in another way

Edit: I totally agree with the2crow's above post - also take into account that the day/night cycle varies from the poles to the equator.

11-11-11 Is just a marketing ploy for Bethesda to make us think: "We have to wait 8 MORE MONTHS?!!!? Then again... 11-11-11 is a really cool date..."

AND YOU KNOW WHAT?!!!!


It worked... :pinch:

Well, its catchy :dance:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfCool

Yeah... right over my head...

There's a "Goldilocks zone" in which we believe life can exist (which has recently widened btw), and this range reaches pretty far from Earths distance from the sun. Also, you are saying nothing of the speed the planet revolves around the sun. However, your argument on how the earth rotates is invalid as it only would happen if suddenly Earth's rotational speed changed. If from the beginning the day/night cycles were different then only the plants/animals that survive in such an environment would thrive and evolve

I could get into "Survival of the Fittest" and "Evolution" but it'd probably go right over your head.


EDIT: I couldn't remember the exact range of the Goldilocks zone so i had to look it up, and it ranges anywhere from a distance of 0.725 to 3.0 AU based on different scientific models

1 Astronomical Unit (AU) = 92,955,887.6 miles or the distance from our Earth to the Sun

Haha! I see what he did there! :goodjob:

This. If they had different year lengths it would be harder to understand how old someone is or how much time is passing (and same with day lengths). I do think it would be more interesting if there were different amount of days in their weeks or months, and day/year time could be kept same.

Yes, right over your head. You missed the point.

And until you mentioned the range I wasn't sure exactly of the range, it's a lot closer than I originally thought (I erred far on the side of caution).

I mentioned the length of the year hadn't I? Okay, since you probably don't know this the length of the year is how long it takes a planet to make one complete revolution around the sun (or whatever is at the heart of it's solar system), which in turn is determined by the velocity of said planet (or speed for your convenience).

Since there is yet to have been any life discovered on any other planet than you can't really say that rotational speed isn't a necessity (nor can I say that is I'll admit and apologize).