So @Galactic-Geek started a thread titled "Your pirate through the years" that basically wants you to describe how your pirate has changed over the last couple years. It got me wondering. This game is almost 2 years old now, but how much time has passed in the sea of thieves itself. Most of us are aware that 1 second in real time is one minute in sea of thieves. So 1 minute in real time is an hour in game.
Doing some quick calculations I decided that the game has been out for 1,035,360 minutes as of March 8th 2020. Give or take a few hours. That converts straight to the same amount of time in hours in the game's time. 1,035,360 hours divided by 24 gives us 43,140 days. That means that since sea of thieves launched, it has ran for 118 years and 70 days in game time.
Now I know no one has played this game constantly since it came out. So you could think about how much time has gone by while you were actually playing instead. 2018 Xbox year in review told me I put in 1,148 glorious hours in sea of thieves, but I seem to remember reports from some people saying some of those stats didn't seem accurate. Assuming that is the correct amount of time I spent playing between launch on March 20th, and whenever these stats were published, that means my pirate sailed the sea of thieves for almost 8 years before the end of 2018.
If 118 years have passed, and you have played this game consistently since launch, averaging maybe 8 hours a day over time. Your pirate will have lived in the seas for nearly 40 years. If you play maybe around 4 hours a day on average, you're still close to 20 years older.
This is all simply based on how many times the day/night cycle has rotated. It's easy to argue that regardless of the day fully cycling, your pirate has still only lived for not even half an hour. We could say there is some sort of mystical time dilation that changes how time works in the sea of thieves, and that even though we watch the sun set twice, it's still only been 24 minutes for us and therefore haven't actually aged a full day. Time outside the seas may move at a quicker rate in relation to inside of it, which causes the sun and moon to move much quicker from our perspective. Either way, it's interesting to think how much time has gone by for our pirates. If I made any mistakes please let me know, or if you have better figures to share I'd love to see them.
