How to change the Era on the save date?

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How to change the Era on the save date?

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For roleplay reasons I want to set my new playthroughs character in 2E close to the events of ESO
How would I do that?

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Re: How to change the Era on the save date?

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Hi Holy Knight,

dateAndTime.gameTime in SaveData.txt is the number of seconds since an hypothetical year 0 of the third era, example:

SaveData.txt:

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    "dateAndTime": {
        "gameTime": 12644752612,
        "realTime": 637480545694216364,
        "$version": "v1"
    },
...
12644752612 / (60 * 60 * 24 * 30 * 12) = 406.531398276748916 so it's some time in summer 406E3
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Re: How to change the Era on the save date?

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I figured that out
I was wondering how to change the 3E to 2E

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Re: How to change the Era on the save date?

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And that's it, the game is hardcoded to take place in third era.

Year (hence era) is seldom mentioned in game though, I spotted "3E" 3 times in Assets/Scripts/Utility/DaggerfallDateTime.cs and I assume that's what shows up in Daggerfall Unity's Load/Save screens...
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Re: How to change the Era on the save date?

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Interesting, Well thank you for the help, I'll test it out :D

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Re: How to change the Era on the save date?

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Possibly dumb question, but I cannot seem to find the assets/Scripts/utility path? Is it found in the main workshop folder?

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Re: How to change the Era on the save date?

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If you have the code pulled down from GitHub then the path should be daggerfall-unity\Assets\Scripts\Utility. daggerfall-unity is the project's top level folder. Nice avatar btw.

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