Leaving game running

[Section8]

Why are we leaving the game running just to populate and grow the animals? This is a waste of cpu.

The fast forward time has zero effect other than day / night and schedules. But animal population, growth etc... I have to leave the game open.

Just why

[Razamanaz]

You have to play a bit after sleeping (15 minutes IRL?) for it to register as a day. I could see some real frustration if you had to leave the game running all the time.

[Hayda]

imagine animal population continued while you weren't playing the game? go on holiday irl, come back 3 weeks later, log on to play, all animals old and dead lol. Can't have your bread buttered both ways

[Alf Tupper]

Erm, no 'we' are not leaving the game running, you are. You don't have to leave the game open. Sleeping will have an effect as long as you are not spamming it. See below.

Look at the two posts above. They have informed opinion.

When the game was new, sleeping three x 24 hrs without taking any other action advanced the game by one year for animal growth purposes I believe, but was amended to stop 'sleep spamming', if that is a phrase.

Exactly what you have to do is unknown to me, but my simple option is to hunt, harvest, sleep, and the game clock advances nicely for me.

[Section8]

I will try that Raz.

Not sure why people leave snarky comments to posts if they add nothing but negative value.

"Imagine..."

You can imagine anything you want but playing a "GAME" is playing a game. Raz offered a solution I will try and appreciate the comment Raz. Dark rambled on about some mysterious whatever. Alf rambled but then explained what he did.

Something of this functionality should be detailed somewhere in the game vs no detail to day changes (year changes).

Don't appreciate the overbearing foliage in high rez, don't appreciate the perfect shot but the replay camera is completely different, and don't appreciate the multi-player lag with the inability to arm a weapon or equipment. (Seems multiplayer dev / optimization is far behind).

Regardless of the above I still play.

[Kraxin-Kari]

yes, 15 IRL minutes but make sure 61 minutes past on the in game clock, so if 7am, don't fast forward time unless its at least 8:01am. that way if you hit escape to pause game or access menus, those pause the in game clock.

[Kraxin-Kari]

multiplayer is randomized every time you launch it, and it can be set to solo.

[Section8]

It has nothing to do with spawn ****ing anything and don't use that word. I don't care what you do in your game and you shouldn't care what anyone else does in theirs.

Too many games limit a player experience because other people complain. Who cares what anyone does. So you limit it to 15m... There's 20 different ways around that from manual processes, to screen scraping, to scripting. Why? Because you want to feel better about yourself?

The game goes through non-stop iterations of "Save the animals, Go Vegan, Don't kill". Then it turns around and says, "Bring me 300kg of this animal" <blank stare>

It is beyond comprehension they limited the day forward but the snarky responses in this thread show where they get it from.

Play your game, let others play theirs and enjoy the game. Nobody mentioned any other game but you. Again.. Why? Stay in your own head.


Raz, Alf, and Kraxin-Kari - Appreciate your responses and will move forward with that step.

[Lanani]

Consolidating the information about time advancing here and then closing the thread before it gets more hostile:

• One in-game year lasts three in-game days.
  
• You need to spend at least a little bit of time actively playing (i.e. not just sitting in a menu) per year in order for the year to "count" and time to advance. This is to prevent players from sleep-spamming.
  
• The exact amount of time one needs to be playing has never been revealed by the devs.
  
• During daytime, 1 real life minute = 4 in-game minutes. During night time, it's 1 = 6.
  
• Personally, I go with 1 in-game hour per year if I'm in a hurry, and that works just fine. If I'm taking my time, I'll go one full day sunrise to sunset and then sleep through the other two days to get to the next year.