Day, month, year or game tick?

[garyamort]

Looking through the various codes, I see a lot of code where events are based on game ticks.

For example, an event that occurs after 5 years, a variable is set to current game tick + (3652*5)

And than a daily action is setup to check for game tick greater than the variable.

What I'm curious about, is why not just use a yearly action to update a variable(number of years)

Than use a monthly action to check that value?

My thinking is that I'd rather miss the "exact" 5 year turnover by a month or so than add more daily or game tick checks to the game.

So is there any rhyme or reason to game ticks, like being more accurate or is it just the way the scenarios were written so people wrote their scenarios that way?

[s_stabeler]

more accurate, and have you looked at the official senasrios? they use game tick, so it means the player gets an extra 1/2 second real time playing at most.