Mass Effect time definition (spoilers)

[whycantibelinus]

Does anyone else find it wierd that within the galactic community in Mass Effect that they all find it appropriate to follow the Earthly definition of time?

I'm on my second playthrough and finding that a little convenient. I think that if humanity ever entered into a galactic community that we would have to conform to their keeping of time rather than ours.

Did the developers do this to avoid coming up with a new time keeping mathematic or just out of arrogance?

 

[Tireseas_v1legacy]

Yes. I also find it wierd that they all talk American English with fairly minimal accents.

That said, if they just stick with the accepted US standards, they'll be able to sell more units because the language and time systems don't revolve around anything foreign to the consumer. While it would be "authentic" to create an entire time system and multi-language interaction, the amount of additional time and work would not pay off in sales, and may even scare off those who are simply dabbling in the RPG genre.

 

[whycantibelinus]

Yes. I also find it wierd that they all talk American English with fairly minimal accents.

That said, if they just stick with the accepted US standards, they'll be able to sell more units because the language and time systems don't revolve around anything foreign to the consumer. While it would be "authentic" to create an entire time system and multi-language interaction, the amount of additional time and work would not pay off in sales, and may even scare off those who are simply dabbling in the RPG genre.

I can see that but I kind of view Mass Effect as more of a heavy RPG than a game someone would dabble with you know? If someone were to dabble with the genre I would suggest Fable or and Legend of Zelda game since the engine's kind of assign your XP for you rather than you having to think about them and do it yourself.

The accents could have been better, but the language escapes through the loophole of "glalactic" which coincidentally enough just so happens to be English. I think they should have just instituted a program in the armor that was a universal translator, that would have been bery easy.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Does anyone else find it wierd that within the galactic community in Mass Effect that they all find it appropriate to follow the Earthly definition of time?

I'm on my second playthrough and finding that a little convenient. I think that if humanity ever entered into a galactic community that we would have to conform to their keeping of time rather than ours.

Did the developers do this to avoid coming up with a new time keeping mathematic or just out of arrogance?

Time has literally no meaning in the mass effect universe - if you can travel faster than light, then time is proven arbitrary.

If you must have a reason for this, it's because there is absoulutely nothing gained by creating entirely new defnitions for time.