pacing and ojectaves are really out of whack

[Kishero]

I cant explore the crystal forest any more because (I had to spoiler myself) I've not finished the community centre.

And I cant finish the community centre because he wants soy potine for the feast and he only asked after the soy season had been and gone.

which I'm guessing also means I cant make the courtship bouquet until I get that done by waiting for the year to turn.

And I cant even schedule planting because I have no idea when any of the made up seasons start, ends or which follows the other. Information that may have shown up once but is now deeply hidden.

I thought this game was out of EA? This isn't even the first time I've been left with nothing to do but wait, just the worst one.

[Puchbol]

Only help I can offer is that there is a Calendar; hotkey "K" (because "C" is for "Water". Yeah.). 24 Days/Season: Preseason (only occurs at the start of the game), Vernal Radiant, Autumnal, Boreal.

And yeah, the quests are out of whack; I got one in early Vernal that I can't do until partway through Autumnal.

It's stockpile, stockpile, stockpile, get a story mission that takes 2 minutes 'cause you have chests full of stuff, repeat.

[Tom Diepstraten]

The pacing is definitely wild. In the early days there's nothing to do so you spend all your time destroying all the rocks on the map while receiving quests for things you haven't unlocked yet. Once you unlock bugs and fish you think that you'll finally have something to do, except you catch all the bugs and fish you'll ever need in like 2 days and then you're skipping days by the half dozen again. Finally you get the quest for the community hub but it demands sugar which takes like a dozen days to grow so here we go skipping days like a madman again. It even feels like the game gives up at that point, because the therapist and the community hub guy don't even get into cutscenes. I know there's more content like farm animals later on but I'm already 60 days in and it's just skipping through the days, There's just not enough to do

[bluemonkey]

To grow crops out of season, you need to build a cultivator. The blueprint costs 10K at Jim-Bob's. It requires power and water and will grow any crop regardless of season in 5 days once you set the growing conditions properly.

[LotusBlade]

There is secret rocket minigame accesable early, on one of the mountain places, if you get 200k score, rewards are quite good, including free incubator and two 3-energy generators.

As for pacing - this game already improved Cozy Grove formula by letting you skip days. Go play Cozy - real days, have to literally wait out 1 for something to happen, no skipping, no sleeping and changing clock on PC permanently breaks game.

[TamanduaGirl]

Cozy Grove is different you can't compare pacing of real time games to normal games. But since you did, In it's own way, in it's genre cozy grove still has better pacing. The game literally tells you when there's no more story stuff to do. You aren't left wandering around confused wondering why you can't advance, it says what's going on. You aren't left wandering around the game for those 24hrs expecting something to be happening. Cozy Grove is actually really well paced for it's genre of real time game(i.e. animal crossing, Disney dream light etc).

but you're comparing oranges to chairs.

As was already described the issue is more that you are given a quest, you can not do the quest till a certain amount of time passes, nothing in the game tells you this, so the player feels frustrated and gets tired of the game.

If you enjoy it that's great but it doesn't change that it's badly designed and most people wont like it.