Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27236867-20151117152328/@comment-27236867-20151117175355

LDuka wrote: You know there's an actual time system in TES games, right?

Childs in-game seem like they're, what, 10? I guess if you consider "adulthood" to be 18, it would take 8 in-game years.

1 minute in-game is equal to 3.5 seconds IRL. Doing the math will get us to 1 year in-game = ~22 days IRL. So it would take 176 IRL days to get a child to grow into "adulthood". That would be a pretty f*cked up feature and for most people it would be useless. yes i am aware of the time system, but older games have done similar things to great effect. For instance, in Fable II your kid grows up from an infant to a child of about 6 or 7 (unfortunately he or she stops aging there)