biovitalb16_ESO wrote: »

Try school.

school is where they taught me to think in inches feet and miles

Main character syndrome, everyone!

biovitalb16_ESO wrote: »

Try school.

Most education in the US on measurements are inches, feet, miles, etc. It's also the unit of measurement reinforced in all real world, every day tasks. Many Americans do get a brief lesson on the metric system in science class, but it is not something we're expected to retain unless we go into certain types of careers.

Anyway, OP, I doubt the compass is a good real indicator of meters anyway. Just know the bigger numbers are further away really.

The USA officially adopted metric in 1975.

Understandable but to be fair this is not even showing meters, when I'm close to something to be like realisticly 2 meters far from it it will show "12m" so...

Anyway this feature is pointless and there is no reason to be forced to have it, we should be able to turn it off.

spartaxoxo wrote: »

MrGarlic wrote: »

The USA officially adopted metric in 1975.

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There is not widespread usage of the metric system in the US. In places where it is used, they often use both. This is because they know the average American doesn't know or use the metric system.

However, when it comes to things science or medicine, then the metric system is used. So, it's not totally alien to us just not something we have to know.

Actually, you will find that metric use is quite extensive now in manufacturing as well as pharmaceutical areas. Even John Deere has converted to metric. Export manufacturing needs to be in metric to enter foreign markets. In many situations, USA produced items need to be in metric to be afforded an import license.

The US Military adopted metric quite a long time ago in order to standardise to the NATO procurement framework. There are many thousands of US manufacturers supplying NATO standard equipment and supplies who do so using metric as a requirement.

The USA is slowly moving towards total use of the metric system, there is push-back but it won't be enough to stop it.

ESO introducing it is a small part of that transition. (I am still waiting for ZOS to stop using MM/DD/YYYY date format and revert to what the rest of the world uses. (DD/MM/YYYY)

(BTW, the US Dollar has been metric/decimal since 1785.)

FurryCandyHearts wrote: »

Aislinna wrote: »

Expand your horizons, learn something new and become more worldly.

worldliness is anathema to my spiritual well being

this is a pretty selfish point of view...
I'm not a native English speaker, but I try to communicate in English every day.
I think everyone should make a little effort to belong to a diverse community.

The units are the same as every other measurement in game.

All distances in game are in 'meters,' All of the measurement is done in these basic units. After all, look at the tooltips of your skills: melee range is 7m, most pull spells are 22m, other projectiles tend to have ranges of 28m, and special skills like snipe can go as high as 40m.

Yes, you can argue that they're clearly not the same as real-world meters (after all, what person extending a dagger from one arm will be able to poke someone 7 meters away), but that's just the measurement system in game.