Other metrics, Around the world? Looking at me Western World? C-dg/F-dg

[simcoaster_87]

As Title Says, I hope we can have Fahrenheit / Celsius

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=temperature+f

or maybe, Dollar's$$ from UK Pounds.

as well, measurements, 1=feet's rather meters

and our date,time is other as well in western world.
6/15/2009 1:45 PM (en-US
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/az4se3k1(v=vs.110).aspx
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some real world stuff?

Maybe it can be under misc, menu in-game like RTycoon 3 did years ago?! [cool]

Other Notes:
Here is where Dollar is mostly likely where game be used at.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar

I'm sure they have it on there wish-list in the past.

 

[WingardiumLevicoaster]

I would hope we can set it. Whenever I have played rct for example as I had a UK copy it would default to metres, Celsius and Pounds. If there is a date I would want to see UK format as US format would drive me crazy lol as I am sure UK would for you! Any good developer will build in these settings to be configured. I would imagine you will be able to select your country on install? Though for alpha we may only have the default (who knows really though) and I bet default will be UK because Frontier are based here.

 

[RollecoasterPipeline]

I definitely need Celsius. Don't understand Fahrenheit at all. I can live without £ instead of $, it'd just be a symbol change, not like things would cost less by comparison. But having pounds would be nice.

 

[InfiniteChaos]

I'm quite certain that Frontier knows about the Imperial/Metric systems, as well as Pound to Dollar signs and the date difference.

RCT3 anyone?

I wouldn't worry TOO much to if they will have the Imperial system or not. (Though honestly America NEEDS to get rid of it...)

 

[Helena]

Yes. Celsius please. metric please.

It is time for the US to catch up to the rest of the world. But yeah, option is best.

 

[simcoaster_87]

On postive note as a human, I usley adapted to things quickly, Google can help me converted stuff. It never hurts learn a new language like they say! [up] I'm half time a positive person.
Can you explain why the United States uses Fahrenheit instead of Celsius?
Answer 1
The answer to the your question is in Sir Isaac Newton's first law of motion, which is more commonly known as inertia. That is, that when something gets going it is hard to stop it or change its direction. It would be a really good thing if we just bit the bullet and made the change to the metric system or, more properly, to International Units. Even NASA just admitted to losing a Mars probe due to an error in converting from one type of unit to the other. We waste a lot of money using inefficient English units. I certainly do, since I have to work in both science and industry, I have to do a lot of converting back and forth.
The conversion to International Units is not without problems though. For example, an average machinist has thousands of dollars in measurement tools, almost always personally owned. They will have to replace every one of them to keep working in a metric world. Most machinists are resisting that change even though metric units are far easier for them to use.
The United States only has 3% of the world's population, but I am not being nationalistic when I say that the US is the dominant force in the world economy. That being the case, there is little force on the US economy to change and meet the requirements of other countries. In some ways our resistance to change drags other countries also, as some countries use English units to be able to trade with us. The change is happening, although at a slow pace. A few years ago, I had a car with a metric engine, but the body parts like nuts and bolts were all English. My current car is all metric.
Answer 2
Statesman of science Thomas Jefferson led America's first strong effort to switch to a decimalized overall measurement system. The effort failed, thanks to the very same social inertia Brian alludes to in the text above. But the envisioned system much resembled the modern metric system - and in principle it was the modern system's equivalent, in that it was base-10, was linked to universal physical standards, and was intended in a combined scientific and commercial spirit.