Talk:Great Telescope
Shouldn't we add a screenshot from the MNOG of the Telescope screen, to show how the Telescope looks when looking through the "lense"? We already use it on the Red Star page though, but do you guys think we should add it into this article as well?
--Lukas Exemplar (talk) 11:23, 22 September 2016 (CET)
How does the clock work?
Do we know how the clock built into the telescope works? The dates written on the telescope's base are times that would be shown on the Great Telescope's clock. As far as I can tell, in the downloadable BioMedia Project version of the Mata Nui Online Game, it's not tied to system time. When I reset the save data, the clock seems to start at or around the time 1028845490.00 / 907040.87. The last two digits of the first number seem to be counting milliseconds, and the rest of the first number seems to be a seconds indicator. Sans the milliseconds indicator, it has the same number of digits as the dates on the telescope base, meaning they may be the same number. Over the course of the game's release, the dates on the base increase from 0978325200 to 1009925424, a difference of about 31 million seconds, and is just over a year (being 365 days, 17 hours, 50 minutes, and 24 seconds). However, given the number that the clock starts at when resetting a save is about 1028845490, the game thinks that it's been only 219 days since the last update. Could this be the compile date of the game, perhaps?
The second number is a countdown timer of some sort, and I don't know what the significance is. I timed it and it counts down once every hundred seconds, ticking over when the last two digits of the seconds clock are 40. I imagine that when the second digit reaches zero after 8700 seconds (2 hours 25 minutes) from first loading the telescope screen, the first digit of the second number will count down, and then, after that, it will take 10,000 seconds (2 hours 46 minutes 40 seconds) to tick down again. I'll leave the clock on overnight tonight and see what number it's at when I wake up.