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ORIGINAL: Technopiper

Next we'll be arguing over the use of "East" or whether the game should be called "The Great Patriotic War". Even that would be more meaningful discussion than this one. Seriously, I wish the developers would ignore this request entirely and focus on making the game play authentic rather than making sure it had all the authentic bits and pieces.

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The request appears trivial. I doubt in coding terms it is even close. Think of having to change all the date formats throughout the code and data, worse still would be a preference. Miss one instance and the rest of the game is using not only a different metric but in maths a different language. Multiple instance changes are always difficult and can easily introduce bugs. When we added city forts it took over a month to iron out the unintended bugs.

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ORIGINAL: Narisomo

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The request appears trivial. I doubt in coding terms it is even close. Think of having to change all the date formats throughout the code and data, worse still would be a preference. Miss one instance and the rest of the game is using not only a different metric but in maths a different language. Multiple instance changes are always difficult and can easily introduce bugs. When we added city forts it took over a month to iron out the unintended bugs.

I am a developer myself, but I don‘t understand the metric issue. Usually you have an internal date format that is converted to an display format. It is more trivial than not, but possibly a busywork. Usually. But I don’t know the code, and I understand that there are english texts containing dates as text. I'm just wondering, but of course it's perfectly fine if you say it's too complicated, or risky in the case of WitE2. For myself, the date format is not all that important.