Anything that has feet, inches and miles. Should I change to meters and cm?

[CrimsonGenius]

Especially if they go to an alien world. Or keep it as it is or invent somethings similar to the legend of heroes series with args. I’m far into my story.

 

[Jemini]

Alien worlds, you should create your own measurement units in those circumstances. Why would an alien civilization be using metrics? That's an Earth system.

If you're going to convert alien units, convert them to whatever you use in the rest of the series. And whatever you use in the rest of the series should be couched on the setting your main cast comes from. So, if based out of the US, then use Impirical. If out of most of the rest of the world, use metrics.

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

Do you know what the exact time for a meter is?

No clue what time has to do with anything? Just keep it at units of stinky feet and not overcomplicate things.

 

[EliseValkyria]

If it's its own world it should have its own measurement system, right? it's something normal, it doesn't have to be exact or explained, just that all the characters seem to have an idea of what they mean.

Now if what you want is for your audience to understand, I would prefer the metric system, simply for statistics, everyone uses that one and therefore they know it, except for the united states and malaysia with their imperial weird units.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

If you expect your audience to be mostly North American, stick to Feet and Miles and the old English system of measurements. If you expect an international audience, either switch to Metric or just be consistent, regardless.

 

[Cipiteca396]

Might be better to use metric for the sake of the audience. Better to appeal to a wider audience, and even the people who use imperious can usually understand metric.

Of course, I don't bother remembering distances when I'm reading, so maybe it just doesn't matter at all.

(For Alien worlds, it's not like you're writing in an alien language. Just pull a Tolkien; 'I translated that shit so you don't have to!')

 

[Alski]

Especially if they go to an alien world. Or keep it as it is or invent somethings similar to the legend of heroes series with args. I’m far into my story.

If your world is advanced use something akin to the metric system, if not advanced you can get away with anything.

Now if what you want is for your audience to understand, I would prefer the imperial system, simply for statistics, everyone uses that one and therefore they know it, except for the united states and malaysia.

Imperial is stupid freedom units, Metric is real science units.

 

[Paul__Michaels]

Especially if they go to an alien world. Or keep it as it is or invent somethings similar to the legend of heroes series with args. I’m far into my story.

Use whatever makes life easier for your readers and yourself. Sure, it would be better world-building, but if you and your readers keep needing to go to a conversion chart every time you mention distances, then it may detract from the story.
I considered doing the same for increasing the number of days in a year for my Isekai, but I decided against it for simplicity's sake.

 

[theInmara]

Alien worlds, you should create your own measurement units in those circumstances. Why would an alien civilization be using metrics? That's an Earth system.

If you're going to convert alien units, convert them to whatever you use in the rest of the series. And whatever you use in the rest of the series should be couched on the setting your main cast comes from. So, if based out of the US, then use Impirical. If out of most of the rest of the world, use metrics.

In our stories about an alien civilization, the units are converted to metric to make it easier to read and understand to Earthlings.

They are not the units used by that culture, but the alien culture uses units that easily convert to the metric system due to a very similar system of standards. Well. They accurately convert. The equation is simple to program into a calculator, but maybe a bit more difficult to do in one's head.

We haven't bothered to define it in detail because the story isn't about that. We just mention the conversion in one of our books at one point.

 

[EliseValkyria]

If your world is advanced use something akin to the metric system, if not advanced you can get away with anything.


Imperial is stupid freedom units, Metric is real science units.

sorry translation error, it was the other way around, no one uses feet and miles. I am also in favor of the metric system

That's another one! because the translator immediately changes the metric system and meters to imperial and feet.

To say that someone is 3 meters tall is different from 5°4-foot

 

[Jemini]

In our stories about an alien civilization, the units are converted to metric to make it easier to read and understand to Earthlings.

They are not the units used by that culture, but the alien culture uses units that easily convert to the metric system due to a very similar system of standards. Well. They accurately convert. The equation is simple to program into a calculator, but maybe a bit more difficult to do in one's head.

We haven't bothered to define it in detail because the story isn't about that. We just mention the conversion in one of our books at one point.

This is a ridiculous amount of words, and I will now defeat the entire argument with one line.

Everything you just said applies equally well to empirical as it does metric.

If you are converting from one form of measurement to another, the form you convert to should be the form used by your target audience. If your target audience is Anglican (US or UK), use empirical. If it's European or east-Asian or south-American, use metric. Simple as that.

(BTW: This is basically just me repeating the same argument I used in the post you responded to. Pretty embarrassing error on your part to have missed that.)

 

[NotaNuffian]

Especially if they go to an alien world. Or keep it as it is or invent somethings similar to the legend of heroes series with args. I’m far into my story.

Just use what is convenient to you and already from the start, don't do such drastic changes to unit of measurement.

Unless the alien world is an alt world where everyone is using metric.

 

[theInmara]

This is a ridiculous amount of words, and I will now defeat the entire argument with one line.

Everything you just said applies equally well to empirical as it does metric.

If you are converting from one form of measurement to another, the form you convert to should be the form used by your target audience. If your target audience is Anglican (US or UK), use empirical. If it's European or east-Asian or south-American, use metric. Simple as that.

(BTW: This is basically just me repeating the same argument I used in the post you responded to. Pretty embarrassing error on your part to have missed that.)

No. And no need to get insulting about it. Jesus fucking Christ.

We looked into it. We compared the sets of standards used for empirical and the metric system, and the empirical are not as easily converted. Empirical standards are not as simple and readily found as metric standards. We did do some research and numbers on this.

Also, our target audience are people who want to see metric in their science fiction stories because either they are familiar with it or want to practice visualizing it and like to see it. People who don't like to see it, we don't care about.

 

[CrimsonGenius]

No. And no need to get insulting about it. Jesus fucking Christ.

We looked into it. We compared the sets of standards used for empirical and the metric system, and the empirical are not as easily converted. Empirical standards are not as simple and readily found as metric standards. We did do some research and numbers on this.

Also, our target audience are people who want to see metric in their science fiction stories because either they are familiar with it or want to practice visualizing it and like to see it. People who don't like to see it, we don't care about.

Do I need to go back and covert it to metrics? They haven’t gone to the alien world yet, just dealing with the local threats before they head over. I already have a name for the alien metric.

 

[Jemini]

No. And no need to get insulting about it. Jesus fucking Christ.

We looked into it. We compared the sets of standards used for empirical and the metric system, and the empirical are not as easily converted. Empirical standards are not as simple and readily found as metric standards. We did do some research and numbers on this.

Also, our target audience are people who want to see metric in their science fiction stories because either they are familiar with it or want to practice visualizing it and like to see it. People who don't like to see it, we don't care about.

Good freaking lord dude! You are taking this role way too seriously!

Right. I do not think it is smart at all to trust a guy who gets so into role playing they get angry about it and still keep on with the roleplaying none the less.

We are trying to have a serious writing advice section here for a writer looking for tips. Stop playing games here and get your head out of your ass, give us some real opinions grounded in your own personal voice, and freaking chill.

Also, the insult was because your entire argument was premised on the idea I did not say something that I did say, which I found just plain tiresome. So, yes. I threw some jabs at you to put you in your place for that a bit. Maybe think about that next time before you go acting like an idiot. It wasn't even all that much of an insult either. You seem to have way over-reacted, which only further solidifies my point. Put the character mask down and talk like a freaking human being.

Do I need to go back and covert it to metrics? They haven’t gone to the alien world yet, just dealing with the local threats before they head over. I already have a name for the alien metric.

Dude, just use the alien metric or convert to the units used by your target audience. Also, don't worry about that larper. He's not giving well reasoned advice, and his last post makes that more than obvious with how emotional he got.

 

[Cipiteca396]

Do I need to go back and covert it to metrics? They haven’t gone to the alien world yet, just dealing with the local threats before they head over. I already have a name for the alien metric.

You probably don't need to change anything. Use what you're comfortable with, or what you think is coolest. The only reason to consider changing things is if you aren't satisfied with it, in which case, no need to ask for permission.

 

[cabbag3]

Especially if they go to an alien world. Or keep it as it is or invent somethings similar to the legend of heroes series with args. I’m far into my story.

Use banana for scale. EZ.
JK. As a reader, there's really nothing stopping me from reading anything as long as it makes sense in the narrative.
We have the term "suspension of disbelief" for stuff like that anyway.
In the first place, would Physics change if they go to the alien world?

 

[MajorKerina]

Randomly swap between systems of measurement every few sentences just to screw with people. He was 5 foot seven and his wife was 143 cm while their children were 0.35 elephants tall.