Quest for Glory 3 eximplified this much better. There''s different map levels and time levels associated with it. When you''re zoomed in, up close.. time passes at like 10 hours per every 30 minutes. When you were in the "world map" time passed much quicker, but your guy moved much faster. This was because of the vast distances you needed to travel. I think in this map it was like 10 hours passed in 5 minutes

Now, when you had to do certain plot items "go to graveyard and get thing" time wouldn''t wait for you. if you didn''t go there at night, you didn''t get it. But you could wait until night, and then go there and time changed because you were in a plot item. You could wait there all day and i don''t think time changed. Although this is kinda wierd. You can program it so that time is slowed a bit, like an hour every 5 minutes or so. But the QFG games never made things disappear when it became night. You had to leave the room and return. The rooms were set, it wasn''t full 3d, but 2d isometric. You walked to the edge of the room to go to the next one. I don''t know how you plan on running this, but it''d be nice to see the rooms/area change when night came about. Instead of making people go to another room

QFG had no real "time limit" on things, either. You could walk around all you wanted, nothing happened. Sometimes you had to go from here to there within 3 days or something.. but still.. QFG3 was particularly funny like this. You could run around for however long and nothing happened. There was supposed to be this huge war between a tribe and the city or something.. and it was gonna happen in three months. Well, my friend walked around for three years!!! THREE YEARS!!! and nothing happened.. lol the game seriously said like day 1090 or something. LOL it was a very good game though, great interface on the older ones. I think Sierra has gone down hill since then. Kings Quest 8 really sucked the interface was crappy and the game in general was weak. QFG5 was about the same. It was still good and in the QFG mannor, but the interface changed some and it became harder. They moved it a little more 3d and it was hard to target some of the smaller flying creatures. There was one point where my friend and i had a particularly hard time with it. All i can say is beta test REALLY well. Heck, i''ll volunteer to help. I''ve found all sorts of simple problems in games that people just never bothered to fix. Gauntlet Ledgends is one of these. The camera angles in it make it near impossible to see IN FRONT OF YOU. what the hell? can my character not see a trap in front of him? he walks right into it.. simply because it doesn''t come on screen until it''s too late. Things like this are rather disappointing.
good luck with it.

J