The Golden Clock should let you stay awake past 2 AM

[wrygrass]

I think the Golden Clock doesn't do enough to justify its price. It's necessary for perfection from what I've read but that's not enough of a reward I think for having this gaudy thing.

I want the presence of the Golden Clock on a player's farm to infuse their farmer with magical energy and let your farmer stay up past 2:00 AM. THEN, the clock would perhaps be worth its price.

However, if you do not sleep, your farmer should be unable to restore their energy by any means after 2:00 AM until you do finally sleep again (and any existing benefits you had from statues should be deactivated at 2:00 AM and any new benefits from statues should cease to be granted as well, even after the sun comes up, until such time as you do finally go to sleep).

[EleventhStar]

by the time you can afford the clock, do you really have a reason to want to stay up longer anymore?

[DaBa]

You're missing the entire point. You don't buy the clock because it's actually useful for anything. You buy it because it's a giant golden clock and you have nothing better to spend 10 million gold on. It's not supposed to be an investment.

Also, the comment above is correct as well, there is zero utility in what you suggested either.

[wrygrass]

It could be fun. In the endgame, even more freedom would be a nice, non-monetary reward. The game should give you something other than just more money which you already have. More freedom could be fun.

[wrygrass]

And people might want to try saving up for it before they are anywhere close to perfection this way too. Could lead to a slightly different way of playing the game.

[DaBa]

Originally posted by wrygrass:

And people might want to try saving up for it before they are anywhere close to perfection this way too. Could lead to a slightly different way of playing the game.

I'm not sure how being able to stay past 2 am this late would change anything about how the game is played. By the time you can even get to 10 million you'd be done with basically everything in the game and working on your checklist for perfection. At that point you're not saving money up for anything anymore. Plus, as I said being able to do that isn't even worth that much money, if it did that and didn't count for perfection I would never buy it. I probably never would if it was 1 million.

What are you actually gaining by being able to stay past 2 am? Especially at the point in the game when you can just drop 10 million gold on something? You have an idea you think is neat, but I don't think you've really thought it through or evaluated how useful would it even be considering the price. I'd much rather it gave a more dramatic and impactful effect if we're going to make it actually justify the price: ability to stop the time completely or making all machines on the farm complete their production instantly at the end of every single day.

But, again, it's clearly a cosmetic item first and foremost, and a giant money sink for the sake of earning perfection.

[Včelí medvídek]

Originally posted by DaBa:

I'm not sure how being able to stay past 2 am this late would change anything about how the game is played. By the time you can even get to 10 million you'd be done with basically everything in the game and working on your checklist for perfection. At that point you're not saving money up for anything anymore. Plus, as I said being able to do that isn't even worth that much money, if it did that and didn't count for perfection I would never buy it. I probably never would if it was 1 million.

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As i did recently legit Perfection, I would stills ee soem value in having extra time per day (and no matter how it woulld be executed (imho betetr would be stop time on farm completely?)

Mostly for Qui quests like reach lvl100 skull mine with challenging monsters, etc.

[arkkumanu]

I wish you could use it to stop seasons from changing. I want eternal spring in one save and eternal autumn in another. For aesthetic purposes.

[wrygrass]

My own situation on my farm currently is that I'm at about 60% of the way toward perfection I think but I have about 6.8 million and rising at a rate of about 20,000 to 100,000 per day. I saved up 1 million for the return scepter and so learned from that how to make lots of money. Money is now no big problem for me and after saving up for the return scepter I decided to make it my next long-term goal to get this clock (I've gotten pretty much everything else one can buy).

I've done lots of the interpersonal quests and some other stuff too but as it is, this clock isn't going to help me much with actually getting any of the other perfection items done but I wish it did. I was particularly thinking about the fishing stuff. Not looking forward to trying to catch all those difficult fish. The cooking every item requirement could be tedious too, due to finding all the ingredients.

I've also read on the wiki that a lot of the post-perfection rewards are currently monetary in nature. I'd like something that changes gameplay somehow too, maybe makes it a little easier to get perfection and gives some award other than money which keeps on giving. So I thought; increased freedom could be a reward. Your time stopping idea would be cool too but I figured that might be asking for too much and, I don't know, staying up all night seems more funny to me. Time freezing would be cool though and it would certainly help in some ways but probably not with fishing and finding all the ingredients. Not sleeping would give me a lot more time to mine, to fish, without interfering with any game mechanics other than passing out and winding up in the hospital.

[Včelí medvídek]

Originally posted by wrygrass:

My own situation on my farm currently is that I'm at about 60% of the way toward perfection I think but I have about 6.8 million and rising at a rate of about 20,000 to 100,000 per day. I saved up 1 million for the return scepter and so learned from that how to make lots of money. Money is now no big problem for me and after saving up for the return scepter I decided to make it my next long-term goal to get this clock (I've gotten pretty much everything else one can buy).

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Btw if you buy perfection % from Joja guy in cavern you need only 5M for 10% (the clock) - no reason push for Clock money only.

[wrygrass]

Thanks but I hate Joja I want nothing to do with them. I tried to use my sword on that guy but the game wouldn't let me kill him.

[Včelí medvídek]

Originally posted by wrygrass:

Thanks but I hate Joja I want nothing to do with them. I tried to use my sword on that guy but the game wouldn't let me kill him.

Sad story than:)

Not much to do than maybe extra shed with wines - I also incubated and sold Ostriches (played with 50% margin so money were last bottleneck too:)

[Entropos]

I could see it "slowing down time" when you're on the farm (in single player) or when all players are there in MP.

To make it amusing, the music could go slower.

Note: If this happens (it won't - but if it did) the cat should start saying hello. "I always thought you were one of the slow dumb animals, but now I can see you're actually a cat".

[Artie]

The game saves when you sleep. So, NO. Next...

[Call Sign: Raven]

No. Go to sleep. lol

[AquaX]

You guys do know you can bypass the golden clock now with the 1.6 update. There is a joja person in ginger island mushroom cave selling 1% perfection for 500k. So it cost 5 mil to get the same % as going for the clock.

So the main utility of the golden clock now is that it prevents your fences from decaying and trash from appearing on your farm.