Timers should stop at 4am

[Mikey]

Seems a little broken you can cook meth for hours after 4 am. Like weed, the timers should stop for all drug production.

[Lusid]

I think it'd be better if we had a sort of sleep need meter that when it hit 4am we just passed out wherever we were. If outside, we have a chance to get arrested or robbed. The timer stop at 4am is way too exploitable imo.

[↓↓ Val]

I agree, only because plants stop growing at 4am. I feel like this is an oversight that you can continue to cook meth, coke, and manually mix at 4am.

[↓↓ Val]

I feel like the only thing we should be allowed to do at 4am is make late night sales, and restock any mixing supplies or other supplies one may need., then head to bed to progress the day, and continue growing, mixing, etc.

[Skinny's Books]

Agreed, maybe the town goes on black out from 4-6 AM, cutting all power. Like how Cali has rolling brown outs.

[wpeale71341]

Originally posted by Lusid:

I think it'd be better if we had a sort of sleep need meter that when it hit 4am we just passed out wherever we were. If outside, we have a chance to get arrested or robbed. The timer stop at 4am is way too exploitable imo.

Oh I definitely exploited it. Made 40 batches of Meth and then mixed each batch 6 times as well and packaged them all up too. Then I finally said I had enough and went to sleep. Spent most of the day doing this task in real life. Benji was out of product so I loaded him back up again. Hey I did not make it, I just used it. Kind of like using a basketball to go to the moon in the game as well.

[jdrake5839]

At first I felt like the early game would be too tedious but second thought, yeah I agree. I like the fact that time pauses at 4 so you can get a chance to collect yourself and restock dealers / shelves / etc so I'd rather they don't make it where we HAVE to go to sleep right at 4 but making the mixers / timers pause at 4 seems like a good balance change.

[Mikey]

Originally posted by jdrake5839:

At first I felt like the early game would be too tedious but second thought, yeah I agree. I like the fact that time pauses at 4 so you can get a chance to collect yourself and restock dealers / shelves / etc so I'd rather they don't make it where we HAVE to go to sleep right at 4 but making the mixers / timers pause at 4 seems like a good balance change.

Yeah, like you could still fill mixers, chem stations etc, but they wouldn't progress anymore at 4 am

[Aven]

Came here to make sure I wasn't the only one that finds the inconsistencies in time flow exploitative. Currently, the only truly time-limited aspects are plant growth timers and workers. Everything else can still be done at 4 am. You can buy from suppliers, gas stations, and Oscar. You can cook, mix, package, and sell endlessly. You can even launder money provided you have purchased the business during the day. You can choose to never progress past a single night until you just absolutely need to buy something.

The game definitely needs a stamina/sleep system for balance, and the devs obviously have thought of this. The dispersion of cuke machines, the ability to consume your own product to gain the effects: these highlight that there previously was or will be some sort of hunger/stamina system in the future.

[Kali Archon]

Shhhhh. I do all my mixing after 4 when I'm not running around doing everything else. Shoo. go away with your comment. I like having the ability to alter the space time continuum. It really helps when you're mixing fifty million things to prep for the next day! lol

[Ᏽ𐌀𐌌𐌁𐌋𐌉𐌍Ᏽ]

I second this even though half my hours in game are mixing and cooking after 4 am, it feels a lil cheaty and you can get random tweakers coming to you in the middle of the night, ive even started getting orders during 4 am.

[Terminal Desolation]

I think it's fine. Early on we had a much harder time keeping our mixing stations going and continuing to produce good product, and the 4 AM time warp helped a lot with getting set up early. If you find it too exploitable and cheesy then... don't take advantage of it? Nobody's forcing you to. You can just go to bed right away at 4 AM.

Or hell, isn't only getting 3 hours of sleep a night for 100 days in a row pretty unrealistic and cheesy too? (unless you're sampling a LOT of your own meth) Better make sure you go to bed around midnight most nights or else you might be exploiting a game mechanic.

[restarter]

I know its kind of an exploit but being able to do things into the early morning hours kind of goes a long with the products we are making and selling. I mean, besides weed.
Im making meth,(haven't gotten there yet) and if I'm making meth I'm also smoking meth and tweakers do things in the night and well into the morning and then some. Staying up for days until the meth monsters start peeking into your windows is the name of the game. Tweakers want more product at 4 am when they run out and are searching the carpet for rocks and instead smoking ceiling putty. I'm not even really sure why time stops.
I don't know who is actually familiar with this life style but there is a sub-culture of people who wander around at night and the morning and then scurry back home before the sun comes up.

[Coelacanth]

I wouldn't be surprised if how time moves and is otherwise handled will change in the future.
Customer sale timers also keep ticking away after 4am, in that you could potentially keep selling to people by knocking on their doors in rotation provided you "stayed up" long enough.
They'll also come find you due to addiction too cause of this.

[MysticAura]

The day moves far to fast for that. You'd get next to nothing done. The freedom at night with added risk (intended or not) is what kept me engaged. It also allowed me to use that time to completely change setups when needed, before morning.

Side note: It seems there are always people who find something helpful and decide to complain that it exists.

If they were to remove this feature it would not work unless they massively extended the days at the same time.

[ꉔꏂ꒐꒒ꇙ]

Originally posted by Lusid:

I think it'd be better if we had a sort of sleep need meter that when it hit 4am we just passed out wherever we were. If outside, we have a chance to get arrested or robbed. The timer stop at 4am is way too exploitable imo.

Wha? every time it hits curfew time, I hop right into bed

Cook batches at night, sell during the day? or vice versa. Maybe some time for us to just chill, have fun and hangout.

Maybe we can get with people, get some loving going (sex, drugs and rock'n'roll baby) go to a club, strip joint? (gta memories) more locations to visit for fun. Time killer/waster, ya-know?

The game isn't finished and is still being worked on. The Dev might be able to think of something or brainstorm some comments to find the perfect solution.

I guess since I still haven't made coke/meth whatever (recently started, 8+hours in and taking my time) I'll probably come back like, hey.... maybe.