How many hours in game = 1 hour in real life?

[The Russian Hacker]

Please someone let me know.

[Red Wolf]

set a alarm for one hour and see how long you have played

[Sandhill]

Purely outside of cities, 3 minutes real time to pass an hour of game time

[🦊 Hermit]

Timescale varies depending on whether you are in towns or out on the open road, it isn't a set rate across the entire map.

[KAPPA]

I know it's a problem...but if the time was synchronized to the PC it would be wonderful

[Wolfgang]

The rough rule of thumb is: 10 hours driving ≈ 1 hour IRL.

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by KAPPA:

I know it's a problem...but if the time was synchronized to the PC it would be wonderful

Which won't work as the map is not 1:1.

[Dark & Realistic™ Nessie]

Maybe a more detailed answer:

- when on long roads (scale 1:20), 1 in-game hour = 3 real life minutes, or 1 real life hour = 20 in-game hours

- when on cities, depots or rest stops (scale 1:3), 1 in-game hour = 20 real life minutes, or 1 real life hour = 3 in-game hours

Originally posted by KAPPA:

I know it's a problem...but if the time was synchronized to the PC it would be wonderful:hungry:

It'd a problem if it was syncronized to system. Not only it doesn't match map scale, but most players (me included) would be driving only during the night. 😐

[TW]

3 min = 1 hr....

[spuranz]

I will agree with most who have replied. But also depends how fast are you driving and how often are you stopping.
Wolfgang will be the closest estimate. As when I look at he clock after half an hour of play is usually 6-7 hours of game time has passed.

[Sandhill]

Originally posted by spuranz:

I will agree with most who have replied. But also depends how fast are you driving and how often are you stopping.
Wolfgang will be the closest estimate. As when I look at he clock after half an hour of play is usually 6-7 hours of game time has passed.

How fast you are driving has nothing to do with the passage of time, though. You can pull onto the shoulder and stop when on a highway and time an hour of game time, it will take three minutes of real time. Wolfgng is just taking a shot at what your mix of highway and city driving will be usually come out to, and that you can guess that a ten hour game time trip will take about one real time hour, in case you are wondering if you'll finish that job before the dinner bell rings

[The Russian Hacker]

thanks im to lazy to do it myself

[RebelDawg91]

I did the math differently, a while back. If Im right it is as follows. But this was done just when there was just CA,OR, and WA.

Real Life (6min) = In Game (1hr)

*that is driving on the interstate.

[Dark & Realistic™ Nessie]

⬆️ Officially, the times are the ones I provided in my previous post. This one you posted is the average based on all the places you may drive thru in a single run.

For example, if you had to stop on a rest area, had to go thru the streets of a town, or even if you're driving only on freeway but somewhere it triggers the "CITY DISCOVERED" message, all those reduce the time to 1:3 (1 real minute = 3 game minutes). When you leave those areas, you go back to 1:20 (1 real minute = 20 game minutes). That's why when you finish your job you'll have an average of 6 real minutes = 1 game hour.

EDIT: same thing goes to the reply below.

[Baba Bomba]

6 game hour = 30 mins real life about.

[The Pitts]

Driving solely on a flat section of interstate that doesn't include any city scale areas you absolutely can achieve three real world minutes per hour. My RoT when working things out in advance is five minutes per in game hour although I may push that up if I know that the route I'm taking features a lot of scenery towns with traffic lights.