Is it possible to smoke a cigar and get captives out of the brig sooner?

[anti-fox]

Apparently you need heroism to get them out, but I'd say that 111,245 is decent enough, considering how little is obtained from some actions. I smoked one in its entirety and I'm not sure if it had any effect or not. Online seems to be real finnicky about real-time, but I think anything outside of online should be able to be modified by smoking the Phantom Cigar to speed up time. That or make stuff work while the game isn't open, just like Fable did with town economy.

[DrMeepy]

Go to Motherbase, log online and sit a bit while you eat dinner or whatever.

[anti-fox]

That will effect the timer on random soldiers captured from Africa and Afghanistan? I've been leaving my game running whenever I need to wait on a deployment or development, but it seems to have absolutely no effect on people in the brig.

[PoutineQuebecoise]

So, from what I know all the online timers are based on real time so quitting the game doesn't stop them.

On the other hand, anything that's not an online timer uses real time but only while game is active. All the cigar seems to do is just advance time of day so you can infiltrate during night.

[anti-fox]

I'm not entirely sure if leaving the game running even gets them out of the brig or not. I deploy to do a side-op, then go around nearby outposts to look for more soldiers and with getting some heroism points, a few come out after I leave via helicopter.

[Matthew]

I think the time in the brig is based on real-time, or at least while the game is open, real-time. So based on this, I would have to say no.

[anti-fox]

I went to bed last night and turned off the game with some deployments on. I had left the game running for a bit before I turned it off. I got on this morning and collected a mission reward or two with the other two teams still on theirs, and I had successfully defended my FOB. Some of my teams ranked up a bit and I was able to start working on the wormhole fulton (already had it unlocked but needed appropriate support level to start the development). Kinda random.

[Gritsunorak]

Originally posted by anti-fox:

I went to bed last night and turned off the game with some deployments on. I had left the game running for a bit before I turned it off. I got on this morning and collected a mission reward or two with the other two teams still on theirs, and I had successfully defended my FOB. Some of my teams ranked up a bit and I was able to start working on the wormhole fulton (already had it unlocked but needed appropriate support level to start the development). Kinda random.

Maybe you got the daily rewards

There are two types of deployment - online and offline

People can attack your FOB even when you are online. It just seems like your AI actually managed to kill the scrub who was attacking it

Phantom cigar is only used to change the time of the day, and does not effect the real time needed to release sodliers, complete deployment etc

This way, if you use phantom cigar during mission to get the night, the mission timer at the end is still real life (i.e. the 30 minutes it took you in real life to complete the mission), and not 24 hours of using the cigar)

[anti-fox]

Well, I guess that would explain 2-3 seconds counting as a minute as far as sunrise to sunset is concerned. If everything went on in-game time, it would be done in no time. But about last night, I sent out my 4 combat teams on deployments, then left the game sitting there for a bit. I came in and just hit alt f4 before going to bed. I woke up this morning with the daily, and rewards from 2 missions, as well as biological material stacked since I am apparently full on that. (Wish I could say the same for fuel resources).

But maybe before I quit last night, some guys had made it out of the brig, some teams leveled up, and I just had to get on this morning to advance the text. If you build something or send combat teams out on missions and leave the game sitting there, you'll never know when anything is done unless you open the pause menu or do something, and then the text will suddenly come up about who did what or if a team leveled up.

[Gritsunorak]

Originally posted by anti-fox:

Well, I guess that would explain 2-3 seconds counting as a minute as far as sunrise to sunset is concerned. If everything went on in-game time, it would be done in no time. But about last night, I sent out my 4 combat teams on deployments, then left the game sitting there for a bit. I came in and just hit alt f4 before going to bed. I woke up this morning with the daily, and rewards from 2 missions, as well as biological material stacked since I am apparently full on that. (Wish I could say the same for fuel resources).

But maybe before I quit last night, some guys had made it out of the brig, some teams leveled up, and I just had to get on this morning to advance the text. If you build something or send combat teams out on missions and leave the game sitting there, you'll never know when anything is done unless you open the pause menu or do something, and then the text will suddenly come up about who did what or if a team leveled up.

You are right here. Sometimes i send people on 5 min jobs, while I listen to tapes and mess around with emblems and what not. If you leave the game to, i dont know, make a snack for 10 minutes (and dont close the idroid), and come back, it will look like they are still on the mission. But as soon as you close it, you get rewards