Which temperature scale is used for planets in Starfield?

[E.Wolf1850]

Celsius, Fahrenheit, Kelvin, or something fictional? I am guessing it is Celsius based on the planets I have visited, but I want to hear what you all think.

[Shroomy]

Ok nerds, just get BG3, you'll have both systems to bang with.

[Lochar]

I just ask Alexa, I am lazy :)

[Shroomy]

Alexa RNG wrote SF's quests.

[Shroomy]

You couldn't ask to a better bot!

[Viper]

In the US our minds are not calibrated to Celcius. We relate to Farenheit. Not putting it down.Just thats what is comfortable.

[Shroomy]

So what does it change you have the exact temperature of another RNG planet? Does it change your life so much?

[Cuddle_Rat]

Postat inițial de Viper:

In the US our minds are not calibrated to Celcius. We relate to Farenheit. Not putting it down.Just thats what is comfortable.

This is so true. I mean, when talking to my friends in the UK or elsewhere about temp I go out of my way to calculate to Celsius, but my brain will always default to Fahrenheit in everyday situations. Would be a nice option to have for comprehensions sake when I'm relaxing playing a video game.

[Mathias Giovanni]

Postat inițial de Viper:

In the US our minds are not calibrated to Celcius. We relate to Farenheit. Not putting it down.Just thats what is comfortable.

Good practice to learn it.

104 degrees F is 40 degrees celsius (about 100)
70 degrees F is about 21 degrees celsius (so half of 40)
32 degrees F is 0 degrees celsius (is flat zero)

zero is freezing
20 is comfortable
40 is hot

Anything beyond those is extreme cold or hot.

[Mathias Giovanni]

Or repeat this.

Zero, Twenty, Forty.
Zero, Twenty, Forty.

Freezing, Comfy, Hot

Or that it ranges by 20. So from 0 freezing 20 up is comfortable, 20 up from that is hot.

[Dagný]

Postat inițial de Cheallaigh:

i've been wondering... seen a planet that said -18, but there was no way it was that cold since it was pretty much tropical, another where it said it was like 31, but it was a frozen wasteland covered in snow... otherwise i would have said it was in C.

Don't overthink it because devs most certainly didn't. If a planet is set to 30c if you go to north/south poles and it's freezing everywhere the stupid thermometer still says it's 30c

[Dagný]

Postat inițial de Mathias Giovanni:

Or repeat this.

Zero, Twenty, Forty.
Zero, Twenty, Forty.

Freezing, Comfy, Hot

Or that it ranges by 20. So from 0 freezing 20 up is comfortable, 20 up from that is hot.

30 is hot
40 is extremely hot, desert kind of hot

[Nite69]

30c is the idle temp of a computer if you have proper cooling, mobo / cpu / gpu / ssd etc its what all mine are anyway

[cdarklock]

Postat inițial de Viper:

In the US our minds are not calibrated to Celcius.

They are if you are educated in any scientific field, where we have been using metric all along because we have to work with people from outside the US all the time.

So it's not EVERYONE in the US who can't figure out Celsius. Just the dumb people.

[ZombieHunter]

Postat inițial de Nite69:

30c is the idle temp of a computer if you have proper cooling, mobo / cpu / gpu / ssd etc its what all mine are anyway

This depends on the ambient temperature of the air around the system. It is physically impossible to cool a PC lower than ambient temperature with passive cooling. Most will run 10c to 15c above ambient at any given time. If you have passive cooling and your temperatures show ambient or below then the reading is faulty and should not be trusted.

30c is 86F. Not very hot.

Just the dumb people.

It has nothing to do with intelligence. People are familiar with the temperature scale they grew up with. Thus lack of exposure means they won't have any valid reference point. Many people who grew up with C do not understand and cannot relate to F. They are not dumb they simply have not been exposed to F scale to have any kind of reference point. The same is true of km vs miles or knots vs mph or nm vs km or miles or Kelvin and C and so on. If you don't use the unit of measurement you won't have any reference point for it.

I fly quite often and so I am familiar with knots and NM. So if you don't know what 120 knots is relative to mph or 50 nm is relative to miles does that mean you are dumb? That is what you just said about others.

[Kai]

Funny how they like to use imperial measurements, but then uses data measurements like it's nothing.

bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes... In the measurement of distance though, we don't use megameters or gigameters... I think by that point it's more of light years when you are talking about massive space distances.