Seasons and Fast Forward mod

[Yehoodi]

Hello, I have played a bunch of FS and wanted to take a crack at the Seasons. With 3 days person season that is 12 days in a year and about 12 days between harvests. I do know there are other things one can do, but with 120x it takes 12 mins per day, which would be 2 hours or so of real time to run through a year in Seasons and between harvests (i think you can go to one day per season but wanted to get a better feel for the mod).

For those who play Seasons do you all just use the speed timer in the game or use a mod like Fast Forward.

Also, are there any concerns about Fast Forward mod.

Any thoughts and feedback would be appreciated. The Seasons mods looks like it is a fun chance of pace.

Thanks . . .

[Hemorrhoids]

it would never be do able if your storing for animals hay straw harvesting baling without very fast paced people to help you out.

[GIJoe597]

Caution about speeding the game up too much...

"Warnings for Gameplay
We do not officially support activating the seasons mod on an existing save game. Instead, we recommend that you start a new game. However, using an existing save game is possible and probably will work. We just will not be able to help if things go wrong. Always make a backup of your save game before activating the seasons mod. We are not responsible for corrupt save games.

If you are using a fast forward mod, keep within the below thresholds, otherwise the game will get out of sync with the extra load of seasons:

Do not fast forward faster than 6000x on singleplayer (preferable even slower)
Do not fast forward faster than 1200x on multiplayer (120x is even better)"



https://www.realismusmodding.com/mods/seasons/manual/gameplay/

[Rumplymaple]

Hi there,

The time speeds up, yes.
The hired worker does not sow faster, fertilise or harvest faster, he wages however flys along beautifully draining your resources. Twice the amount for half the amount of work done type of thing.
I generally play on real time. Seasons = One season = 9 days One year = 36 days.
Man itl's hard to feed animals, plant, cultivate, weed, fertilise and then harvest. Ask any farmer (IRL) how hard that is with limited income
So, to come back to you.
A year for me in game play in real life is three months.
Patience is key.

Please comment constructively. If you don't agree with me, fine. Advice me how to play better.
Thank you

[Yehoodi]

I can try it out and see what happens. I generally get all my work done for the day and then fast forward to the next day waiting for my crops to grow. In the vanilla game it is just one day and change between crops

Instead of starting a new game, I am going to try Seasons with a save game file that i copied into another game slot (so i save my original save game file). I thinks Seasons allows one to skip the night.

[LuckySeven]

I use fast forward mod,due to the restrictions of the seasons mod. I'm often in the situation where everything is done for,and nothing else to do but speed up to the next season/day. I adjust the during time of the mod with the fields I own at the beginning of the game.
Another way I play this mod is to set the ingame time accordingly to the real one,each time I play it.This way I need to deal with the weather conditions like IRL.

[Lord Nighthawk]

Fast forward on x12000 really bugs everything with seasons mod, you have to change the maxspeed of it to 6000 in it´s lua. I don´t see any problem with fast forward, there is no sleep option or anything ingame and when starting a new savegame you often have everything done in a day and would only sit at your pc watching the night passing by with nothing happening. If you don´t play with animals (specialiced farming) you will use it a lot more often.

Fast forward is primary designed to skip moments where really absolute nothing happens.

Originally posted by Rumplymaple:

Please comment constructively. If you don't agree with me, fine. Advice me how to play better.
Thank you

It´s a sandbox so everyone can play how he/she wants. For the time i can spend in the game your playstyle would be too boring for me with literally no progress.

[Yehoodi]

Originally posted by Lord Nighthawk:

Fast forward on x12000 really bugs everything with seasons mod, you have to change the maxspeed of it to 6000 in it´s lua. I don´t see any problem with fast forward, there is no sleep option or anything ingame and when starting a new savegame you often have everything done in a day and would only sit at your pc watching the night passing by with nothing happening. If you don´t play with animals (specialiced farming) you will use it a lot more often.

Fast forward is primary designed to skip moments where really absolute nothing happens.

Originally posted by Rumplymaple:

Please comment constructively. If you don't agree with me, fine. Advice me how to play better.
Thank you

It´s a sandbox so everyone can play how he/she wants. For the time i can spend in the game your playstyle would be too boring for me with literally no progress.

Thanks for the feedback. I did load the fast forward mod and tried it with my present vanilla save game and exited without saving. Then tried it with a new seasons game and just ran if for one ear without doing any farming.

I like it and want to use it as I play by getting all my work done for the day then fast foward to the next day without anything running. And with seasons, would love to have it.

Okay so how to I adjust the speed down to 6000? Is it an adjustment ingame or do I have to mess with a file? Thanks.

Edit: just looked, I see a fastforward.lua file, is this what i adjust and what software to open it? Thanks.

Edit 2: I think i got it, had to unzip folder, was able to edit with Notepad, but lost the hash label on the mod but i guess that does not matter. Its running at 6000 now. thanks.

[Lord Nighthawk]

I use notepad ++ but i think the normal windows notepad should do it too. There is a point with settimescale and then the actual number in brackets - should be 12000 default. Change to 6000, save the file and replace the one in the .zip with the changed one.

edit: ok, my reply overlapped with your edit.

[Yehoodi]

Originally posted by Lord Nighthawk:

I use notepad ++ but i think the normal windows notepad should do it too. There is a point with settimescale and then the actual number in brackets - should be 12000 default. Change to 6000, save the file and replace the one in the .zip with the changed one.

edit: ok, my reply overlapped with your edit.

Thanks again for you help. :-). i do know that the modder recommended to only go with 6000 and tought it might of been an in game option . . . thanks for the direction.