Optimal season length?

[Curthbert]

Hi. I play this game since Friday nonstop and I am still in the middle of spring, and I already reached the limit of 10 buildings. I also can't invite more than 2 villagers because I need 150 dynasty points. I am wondering if I did a mistake to set season length to maximum (30 days or so), is it limiting me in progress speed? I did couple of quests but I need to wait till next Summer but that feels like all eterninty lol. So my question is if I can change it somehow? 30 days is too many I guess, I'd love to change it to like 15 but I don't want to start all over again :)

[Fel]

The optimal is the default 3 days per season despite what we might think when starting as a new player.

A lot of things in this game are linked to season changes so longer seasons are hindering your progress quite a bit.
A few examples are clay/stone/ore deposits that only refresh when season change, trees grow back from stumps after 2 years, women do not work for 2 years after having a baby, crops only growing when season changes...

You also shouldn't worry about not making "enough" progress each season, the game is set as a more relaxed experience so you can take your time and progress at your own pace.
In fact, there are many things that become stressful when you try to rush.

3 days per season is a length that allows you to get through the years at a decent pace without preventing you from doing things during each season so it ends up being a good compromise.

You can't change settings mid-game, you could try your luck by editing your save but it's at your own risks.
The best is to start fresh.

[Trip]

I like 6, but I sleep at night as soon as it gets dark. I don't like squinting at a black screen.

It keeps roughly the same amount of playtime as if you work through each night without sleeping.

You have to make sure to sleep or the seasons take a long time.

[Curthbert]

Originally posted by Fel:

The optimal is the default 3 days per season despite what we might think when starting as a new player.

A lot of things in this game are linked to season changes so longer seasons are hindering your progress quite a bit.
A few examples are clay/stone/ore deposits that only refresh when season change, trees grow back from stumps after 2 years, women do not work for 2 years after having a baby, crops only growing when season changes...

You also shouldn't worry about not making "enough" progress each season, the game is set as a more relaxed experience so you can take your time and progress at your own pace.
In fact, there are many things that become stressful when you try to rush.

3 days per season is a length that allows you to get through the years at a decent pace without preventing you from doing things during each season so it ends up being a good compromise.

You can't change settings mid-game, you could try your luck by editing your save but it's at your own risks.
The best is to start fresh.

I am pretty sure that 3 days wouldn't work for me:) 10-15 is reasonable imo. I love to truly experience every season, struggle through long winter and be excited for the spring and so on, 3 days that's killing my immersion.

Right now I would love to unlock more buildings to be happy, and get 2-4 extra villagers and I am all good:)

[Curthbert]

Originally posted by Trip:

I like 6, but I sleep at night as soon as it gets dark. I don't like squinting at a black screen.

It keeps roughly the same amount of playtime as if you work through each night without sleeping.

You have to make sure to sleep or the seasons take a long time.

I hate nights so I sleep through them as well. I can't build any of internal/external light sources except small campfires so running through dark forest is not fun for me:)

[Dracon]

I really like my 7 Day playthrough... But being used to the 3 Day one, I once thought I was at least in year 3 when I was still in Y2 lol.

Originally posted by Curthbert:

Originally posted by Trip:

I like 6, but I sleep at night as soon as it gets dark. I don't like squinting at a black screen.

It keeps roughly the same amount of playtime as if you work through each night without sleeping.

You have to make sure to sleep or the seasons take a long time.

I hate nights so I sleep through them as well. I can't build any of internal/external light sources except small campfires so running through dark forest is not fun for me:)

Ironically, the night is actually still to bright, especially the sky. It's as bright as a modern world town's when the city light gets reflected by clouds. The moon on the other hand has barely any color at all.

[Mouse]

Originally posted by Trip:

I like 6, but I sleep at night as soon as it gets dark. I don't like squinting at a black screen.

It keeps roughly the same amount of playtime as if you work through each night without sleeping.

You have to make sure to sleep or the seasons take a long time.

I have 5 days, plenty f time to work and have fun, besides, more than that and it takes forever, also you will need a lot of food since you have alot of days to feed your villagers and the first years will be harsh since you won't have much money, besides you can fully enjoy it, remember its a dinasty game you don't need to get every single thing with Racimir, atm you can but i don't think you will with the full version.

[Tony Liberatto]

I think the problem is the lack of content. 3 days works now, but 15 days would be just a lot of time with nothing to do.
Season changing also replenishes the merchants, and with a horse you can go around all the villages in one day.
One more day to do small quests.
That gives you one extra day to fix broken structures or provide anything else your workers need.
Maybe once the Devs create more content, we can extend the seasons.
But, actually, once you have your village all set, what you wan t is a way to pass the seasons faster.
I would love for a choice to just jump a season.

[Shrez]

4 Days are the sweetspot for me

[Capuzzi09]

Originally posted by Curthbert:

Hi. I play this game since Friday nonstop and I am still in the middle of spring, and I already reached the limit of 10 buildings. I also can't invite more than 2 villagers because I need 150 dynasty points. I am wondering if I did a mistake to set season length to maximum (30 days or so), is it limiting me in progress speed? I did couple of quests but I need to wait till next Summer but that feels like all eterninty lol. So my question is if I can change it somehow? 30 days is too many I guess, I'd love to change it to like 15 but I don't want to start all over again :)

You're only playing since Friday, that's close to nothing.
So my advice would be: just start over and choose shorter seasons.
30 days is completely insane, I personally wouldn't recommend 15 either because it's way too much.
This game is meant to be played over generations. With 15 days you'll have a hard time to even see your heir grow up.
The game and everything in it is balanced to default settings, maybe you should at least try it.

[Lailantie]

I have the most fun with 2 days per season. All my earlier games were 3 days, and in one playthrough I was determined to go through generations. I made it until the birth of Racimir's great grandson and then I accidentally deleted the save. How did I get there? I admit I subscribed to some trainer software to fast forward time. Because after moving my village 4 times to get myself occupied I was just too bored to wait and wait. And that was with 3 days per season.

Even with my two days per season (year 33 currently) I have plenty of time. I repair buildings at each season change, get myself a bucket of milk which will feed me for the whole season, and then I do herold quests, decorate, shuffle my grownup kids and find jobs for them, build new houses for the kids, watch my field workers get lost in town, make trips around the map, sleep by the campfire and much more.

I actually enjoy season changes very much, because they bring news. Who died, who was born, who turned 18, did my horses get a foal, has the herold arrived and more. Except for farming, there is nothing you have to accomplish within one season, which would make it necessary for me to make them longer. Yes, maybe the Uniegost quests in the first years, but if you did them already several times, you know exactly where to go and what to carry with you.

And even farming, I have two barns and there's always between 8 and 12 farmers/fieldworkers ready to care for all my fields and orchards spread in a huge region, most of the time they only need one day for everything, sometimes half of the second day.

Most of my workers have level 10 in their job, so I have to reduce production and output as I have way too much. Everything gets sold in the market stalls, and I currently have around 400 000 gold just in my resource storage. Without doing anything for it.

The kids who turn 18 have different skill levels. But even if I put a level 3 crafting person in the tavern together with two level 10 cooks, this youngster will level up REAL fast. So I found, for myself, there's no use at all to have villagers age up until they get kids so their kids have higher skills. They will level up in no time when put together with other level 10 workers, and you have those once your kids turn 18.

So this is the first playthrough I am still enjoying and wanting to play in year 33.

But then, everyone is different. Just wanted to add my 2 cents :)

*edit: I forgot to say: I sleep each night.

[William Bonney]

As I've read, 2 in game hour is 2 minutes. So if you never sleep during a season, that's 48 minutes per 24hr day and 2 hours 24 minutes per "default" season. 4 seasons a year so now 9 hours 36 minutes. Ten years, you're looking at almost 100 hours of potential in game play time. The game goes faster, like a lot, if you sleep when the game allows you to to move on to the next day, but you're still looking at 50 or 60 hours for a decade in game, which is about what it takes to get the skill levels of villagers up to 8 to 10.

So for me, the default setting of 3 days a season works out. If I were spending over 10 hours a "year," I'd never get to move on to my children let alone get to use the children of my original villagers, which have much better starting skills because of matching parenting and waiting until 25'ish to move them in with a potential mates.

[hubbemattsson]

I allways sleep, exept when I have night hunt quests, and playing on 2 days.. Pretty sure I never will go back to longer seasons. Its absolutly no need to rush. Every time you fell stressed, stand still, watch the view and take a deep breth.

[Curthbert]

So guys I found some HEX editor and changed my season length to 12:) My first spring took 26 days lol. Right now I can say 9 days will be my sweetspot 😀 I know it's much longer than most people recommend but it makes season changes actually pretty exciting event. Now I enjoy long Summer and see my first Autumn (I didn't see any screenshots of Autumn/Winter so it will be all new for me). I must say I totally love the game and I am shocked how good it is 😮

[Bahamas]

To conclude what everyone else said, 3 days per seasson are the right spot and sometimes feel to long, Once you get your workers to do everything, there is nothing left to do for you but quests. I dont cut trees anymore, I have a woodsheed 2. The only things I do right now is mining because I dont have a mine and selling because I dont have a market stall. I restarted the game just recently.
It might get busy at the beginning but it gets easier as you progress

[richardmgoldsmith]

I don't think I've ever had news of the kids that turned 18 - I had to check specifically in the management screen whenever I remembered to. Is that a recent change?