The WAIT option how to turn 2 minutes into 4 seconds

[rik43]

After putting over 500 hours in this game I have found ways to save time in a few places. As we all know if you want to progress time you find someplace to sit and press B... Set the hours max of 24 and wait about one minute for it to pass, then do it all again when you need 48 hours..

HOWEVER... you can reduce this 2 minutes of wasted time and searching for a place to sit to 4 seconds and no need to go anywhere. Did you know there is NO reason that the passing of time should be as slow as it is, it is just a time wasting feature in the game you wait 48 hours 60 times and you just wasted 2 hours of your play time! So how do we fix it?

Here is how you turn 48 hours (2 minutes of time wasting into 4 seconds) if you want a different amount of wait time just change the number 48 to whatever you want there is no limit and it is always instant.

1: Open console
2: passtime 48
3: [ENTER]
4: Exit console

Job done! Hope fully some clever modder will make this a feature so you don't need the console. This takes only as long as it take you to type it, so for me about 4 seconds... It seems this games spends a lot of time looking for ways to waste time when it can be instant.

[Galenmereth]

If previous iterations of the engine (F4 and Skyrim) are anything to go by, be a bit careful with this because keep in mind that while "skipping" time, the world simulation tries to account for it. This includes NPC movements and schedules (for those that have it), spawning enemies attacking your outposts (where appropriate), and so on.

In previous games if you skipped a lot of time in one iteration, it could cause unwanted side-effects because not every simulation function can be expected to be able to "jump" ahead so far in one go. Before someone claims this is lazy, I'd say from personal experience that this is a much harder problem than people give credit, and it's anything but easy.

So the reason you have to "wait" for those individual ticks when you use the in-game wait function is for this reason. Also you may notice that the more outposts you have, the longer waiting tends to take for each "tick" in your save game. That and other factors affect it.

[YeenBean]

Originally posted by Galenmereth:

If previous iterations of the engine (F4 and Skyrim) are anything to go by, be a bit careful with this because keep in mind that while "skipping" time, the world simulation tries to account for it. This includes NPC movements and schedules (for those that have it), spawning enemies attacking your outposts (where appropriate), and so on.

In previous games if you skipped a lot of time in one iteration, it could cause unwanted side-effects because not every simulation function can be expected to be able to "jump" ahead so far in one go. Before someone claims this is lazy, I'd say from personal experience that this is a much harder problem than people give credit, and it's anything but easy.

So the reason you have to "wait" for those individual ticks when you use the in-game wait function is for this reason. Also you may notice that the more outposts you have, the longer waiting tends to take for each "tick" in your save game. That and other factors affect it.

So if they’re not skilled enough to figure out how to keep the simulation going, then just… don’t. It’d be better to have some side effects from that than to have enough time to get up and throw a frozen pizza in the microwave, especially since you’ve gotta do it multiple times each time you want to sell a full inventory.

[rik43]

I have had no side effects at all with this, but I have never used it more than the 48 hours. This is enough time for the store to get the money back so I can't say what would happen if you waited 5000 hours for example? BUT... it should in theory still NOT cause even a small issue, why? Well if you go to Venus wait 48 hours 5000 hours have passed in the game and it is still just 48 hours (2 minutes) and when you leave everything is in order! So I think we will find that it will have NO adverse effects at all and as I said I have been using this so much and it has made no problems what soever. Let me know if it is different for you, I think the only reason they do it is to give the illusion of time passing!