days and seasons

[wildguy]

Some info. that some people might find helpful.
Days
Short = 38 mins.
default = 76 mins.
long = 4 hours
realistic = 24 hours

Seasons
short = 3 days
default = 5 days
long = 10 days
realistic = 90 days

[ReBootXD]

Oh man on realistic you’re just never gonna see winter, lol

[BORG]

Originally posted by ReBootXD:

Oh man on realistic you’re just never gonna see winter, lol

Or autumn for that matter. Could beat the game long before that. The realistic settings imo are ridiculous. 🤣

[wildguy]

Originally posted by ReBootXD:

Oh man on realistic you’re just never gonna see winter, lol

No winter would be nice but the time between attacks must be huge. the longer you set your days the easier the game is. I played one with short days and default seasons and it does play differently, food became a thing although food isn't too difficult to stockpile in this game at the hardest settings once you learn the map. the extra attention to food and the almost constant attacks made building the base not so enjoyable. I did get to day 40 ish before i quit and started another game.

[jswarpaint]

Originally posted by wildguy:

Originally posted by ReBootXD:

Oh man on realistic you’re just never gonna see winter, lol

No winter would be nice but the time between attacks must be huge. the longer you set your days the easier the game is. I played one with short days and default seasons and it does play differently, food became a thing although food isn't too difficult to stockpile in this game at the hardest settings once you learn the map. the extra attention to food and the almost constant attacks made building the base not so enjoyable. I did get to day 40 ish before i quit and started another game.

The Constant Attacks get old but at least its an option ..

[Angelica]

Originally posted by jswarpaint:

The Constant Attacks get old but at least its an option ..

Day 50+ in world, long day, long seasons, started in spring
Average attack interval: (in game time not rl time)
Mutants - about once every 5 days
Cannibals - once every 30-60 hours
Muddies - Daily?
"Curious onlookers"/Scouts - Daily

I put a question mark next to the muddies (the ones that duck into bushes and vanish and scamper around all feral like on all fours) because it's hard to tell if they are near. As for the intervals, they are guesstimates. I don't just sit in the base looking at the clock to time it all out I just notice when building how often I am interrupted by solicitors. I do know I would likely never build a base in short days. Couldn't repair it fast enough. Also where you build has a lot to do with how often visitors come calling. Even in winter the island in the lake near the cave exit (i think it's the shovel cave system, there is a dude in an arm chair near a rope clime right before the exit) doesn't seem to get visitors as often.

Lastly, picking off the scouts diminishes the cannibal raids.


Drawback to the long days - cooking and drying take a lot longer.

[mtandy]

Thanks

[Vash(88)]

:dwarfber:
cheers

[jswarpaint]

The plus to long days is you don't have to eat as much .. as often ???

[Maviba]

Originally posted by ReBootXD:

Oh man on realistic you’re just never gonna see winter, lol

At least you can skip the nights 🌙 ^^
But still, 24h would be too much for me.
But pretty sure people would ask for this, if there wasn't such an option.

I play using "long" days. Seems to have the best balanced pacing

Currently at 10 days per season. Thinking of switching to realistic regarding this.

[wildguy]

Originally posted by ReBootXD:

Oh man on realistic you’re just never gonna see winter, lol

My last few games i've been playing realistic season and starting in spring. winter doesn't come until day 270 and i've never played a game that long. not dealing with winter is nice.

[extremeragnarok]

Originally posted by wildguy:

Originally posted by ReBootXD:

Oh man on realistic you’re just never gonna see winter, lol

My last few games i've been playing realistic season and starting in spring. winter doesn't come until day 270 and i've never played a game that long. not dealing with winter is nice.

Winter is just not fun. The snow-blind is terrible, can't see where you're building in snow, winter jacket barely does anything, the list goes on. I made the mistake of doing a realistic length winter. I almost didn't finish the game. If I play through again, I'll be starting in spring with realistic season length. Even a 4 day winter would turn me off of the game now.

[WHYTE_TYGER]

I play using Long days and Long seasons. Seems to balance the days and seasons nicely enough, especially early days when you're scrambling to get stuff built in preparation to explore. At least as far as daylight hours. Just hit day 14 recently, playing single player. My compound is built, got plenty of stock, and majority defenses in place. Had a few attacks, but they seem to scale on how you progress the main story imo.

[Buster80]

I feel like there should an in between option for default and long days

[wildguy]

Originally posted by WHYTE_TYGER:

I play using Long days and Long seasons. Seems to balance the days and seasons nicely enough, especially early days when you're scrambling to get stuff built in preparation to explore. At least as far as daylight hours. Just hit day 14 recently, playing single player. My compound is built, got plenty of stock, and majority defenses in place. Had a few attacks, but they seem to scale on how you progress the main story imo.

I played a few long day games. The problem i had with those games was the amount of attacks was low. It was great while i was building and exploring but once the base was done it got kinda boring, that was before 1.0 was released though, may have changed. It would be nice if you could change the day length in the options (in game)....i would use long days for building and short days for when my base is done. the attacks can be relentless on short days.

[BlackCrusader]

Are seasons still 10 days? Seems off as I have started in Spring and I am on my 30th day and am still in fall (a lot of rain and yellow leaves)