Ageing and IRL time

[Crowley]

From what I read, your character can die of old age once they are in their 60s, how long does it take in real time to get to that age? and if you dont have any kids by then do you have to make a whole new game or are there other options to continue playing that save?

[larrysteele]

If you do not have an heir that's at least 18 years old when you die, regardless of cause, your dynasty (therefore the game) is over.

[TheOriginalMark:-)]

How long it takes really depends on the length of your seasons If you play with, for example, 10 day seasons then each year is going to take 10 times as long as if you played with 1 day seasons. If you die without an heir then it's game over.

For what it's worth: 1 minute in real time is about 30 minutes game time and if you wake at 7.am and sleep at 10pm every day that about 30 real minute per game day. On a three day season thats 1.5 real hours per season x 4 making 6 real hours per year.

Of course I'm notoriously bad at arithmetic so take that with a pinch of salt :-)

[Crowley]

so if i wanted to play things at a much slower rate and not want to worry about time and my character ageing, if i set a season to 30 days, one year in game would take 15 hours irl?

[Maehlice]

Originally posted by Crowley:

so if i wanted to play things at a much slower rate and not want to worry about time and my character ageing, if i set a season to 30 days, one year in game would take 15 hours irl?

Time passes at a rate of 120 IRL seconds per in-game hour.

( 30 days * 24 hours - 7 hrs per season start ) * 4 seasons * 120 IRLsec per gameHr / 3600 seconds per hour = 95.06 IRL hours if your character never sleeps.

EDIT: Half as much if you sleep at exactly 1900 every evening.

[Willow Rivers]

Originally posted by larrysteele:

If you do not have an heir that's at least 18 years old when you die, regardless of cause, your dynasty (therefore the game) is over.

Depends which map you are on. If you are on Oxbow you hasve the option to respawn at your house when you die since it is the co op map even if you are playing solo.

Valley map this is true, any death without an heir gets a game over screen and you have to load a save.

[Crowley]

Originally posted by Maehlice:

Originally posted by Crowley:

so if i wanted to play things at a much slower rate and not want to worry about time and my character ageing, if i set a season to 30 days, one year in game would take 15 hours irl?

Time passes at a rate of 120 IRL seconds per in-game hour.

( 30 days * 24 hours - 7 hrs per season start ) * 4 seasons * 120 IRLsec per gameHr / 3600 seconds per hour = 95.06 IRL hours if your character never sleeps.

EDIT: Half as much if you sleep at exactly 1900 every evening.

Dope thank you :D idk where i got 15hours from LMAO, a single season would be roughly 15 irl hours if you take sleep into account then? thats good to know seems like ill have more than enough time to mess around, i was worried it would feel like i had to rush to get things done before my character died

[Maehlice]

YW. FWIW, 30 days is really, really long. You're more than likely going to have a full-fledged village full of level 10 NPCs with nothing but toddlers running around. Then, you'll have the opposite problem and be waiting around twiddling your thumbs waiting for your kids to grow up.

If my 2 cents are worth a nickel, start with something like 6 days and go from there.

[River]

Time stops every time you open a menu. That's a lot. In practice, a day lasts a lot longer than the math makes it look.

I would not recommend increasing the season length. It's a pretty common regret for new players. The beginning feels like you're in a rush, and more time for each season sounds good. But you're not in a rush. It's ok to take it slow, even at 3 day seasons. If you want to play with the generational system at all, increasing the season length is a bad idea. Most people have fully built up their village and run out of stuff to do by the time the first generation of children are old enough to actually start working, even on 3 day seasons. One of my most enjoyable runs was when I played one day seasons, though getting the farms done in one day was rough. I don't know what percentage of players have actually stuck with a playthrough long enough to die of old age, but I would bet it's extremely low.