Setting Time of Day

[Pete Gaimari]

I know how to set the time. It's done in the cabin at the bed. It's more to get rest but sets the time too. I was trying to do it yesterday and nothing happening when I hit the rest button. I then realized it was asking for money to do it and I didn't have enough. I had just taxied and animal and was almost broke.

Am I right? Do we have to pay to set the time of day?

My problem is I don't play this game like a gamer and shoot everything in sight to build up money. I do it like a real hunt. I pick one animal to hunt and go out and only shoot that one animal. Then i'm done for that hunt. I don't do missions either. It's hard for me to get much money. Most of it goes to taxi and don't get me started on the cost of doing that. It's why I never do it in real hunting.

[Tri]

yes you must pay for changing time from 250 to 2500


first you pay 250 if you change time after 3 hours in game still is 250 but if less hours than you pay more and more

[Vedo]

Yes it costs 200 credits to "rest" (forward time) if im not mistaken and i believe it costs more and more if you do it in a short span of time.

Never been broke enough to notice it honestly.

[Vedo]

Originally posted by Tri:

yes you must pay for changing time from 250 to 2500


first you pay 250 if you change time after 3 hours in game still is 250 but if less hours than you pay more and more

this guy knows.

[RedTide249]

Yup. Need to at least shoot a few things to get the money to change the time if you want. Honestly it's good to shoot a bunch of stuff anyways to get better animals to spawn. If you leave a smaller animal on your map it'll stay there forever taking up that slot for something better to possibly spawn on your map. I dont shoot EVERYTHING but I do shoot a lot. What I do is go around and kill a lot of stuff and when I find something real cool, a giant mule deer or elk, or some rare fur variation of something, thats when ill switch to hunting mode and actually take my time and set up and bow hunt that animal.

[RedTide249]

Oh also use tents to change time and its cheaper.

[Vedo]

Do some duck or geese hunting if you want to make a lot of money while not feeling like its taking place in narnia. Its a bit arcade but its fun and not completely unrealistic.

It requires some investment (especially goose) though before you are setup to make the big bucks.

[Pete Gaimari]

Well, i'll be dammed. I've been paying all this time and wasn't aware of it. I'm always changing the time. I like to start early in the morning and I can't think of a way to do that now without spending money. If I don't change the time i'll be hunting at night once I get to it. I shouldn't have bought the lodge and I wouldn't be spending all my money at the taxi.

Is there a way to look at a list of all the animals i've shot? I'd be happy with that instead of the lodge. Just to look back and remember the hunts. Kind of like real life.

[Striker]

I too am choosy about what I shoot. Getting tax work done and paying for resting/resetting the clock can leave you constantly short of $ in the lower levels. Duck and Goose hunting are broken right now so I'd wait until after they fix them before investing in doing either.

You can simply save the animal for tax work later. It costs nothing to do that. I think it's up to 10 animals. You don't need the trophy lodge DLC to save the animals for tax work later. You just won't be able to mount them until you buy the DLC for at least one of the two types of trophy lodges (Doesn't matter which one).

[Falcon]

Originally posted by petegaimari:

Well, i'll be dammed. I've been paying all this time and wasn't aware of it. I'm always changing the time. I like to start early in the morning and I can't think of a way to do that now without spending money. If I don't change the time i'll be hunting at night once I get to it. I shouldn't have bought the lodge and I wouldn't be spending all my money at the taxi.

Is there a way to look at a list of all the animals i've shot? I'd be happy with that instead of the lodge. Just to look back and remember the hunts. Kind of like real life.

You can go into the codex in game by hitting 'esc' and then selecting it. It'll show you some of your harvests, and the better ones, but not a full list.

[Pete Gaimari]

Ok, thanks. I see how to bring up the list now.

So, that leaves the time of day problem. Nobody has found a way around this? It seems ridiculous we have to pay to set the time of day to hunt. Who wants to hunt the middle of the day or at night time? Hunting at night isn't even legal in my state. What do you guys do/ Just keep paying? It would be nice when we leave a map that the time would be early morning when we come back to it. Instead it resumes where we left off. Who wants to resume where we left off? That's why I left. The hunt was over.

No wonder I never had any money. I was changing the time 10 times a day. I want to hunt when the game is active.

This could be a game breaker for me. I have to keep spending my own money to buy stuff because this dumb stuff is taking my game money. I refuse to blast away at game to gain game money. It's not hunting. It's FPS shooting on game.

[Tri]

go to multiplayer to earn some easy cash for single player

[Falcon]

It costs 200-250 credits to sleep. Each animal pays out 800-1,200 credits on average. Subtract maybe 75 for ammo. The rest is all profit. If you're shooting even one animal per game day, you shouldn't be going in the hole unless you taxi everything you shoot.

I'm guessing buying the lodge is what emptied your pockets. I restarted my character about a week ago. I've mostly only been hunting 9-11 am, and shooting nothing but mulie bucks. I've still managed to buy 10 tents.

Animals are active in one place or another pretty much the whole day. Feed and rest zones are a little more spread out than drink zones. Once you find them, you can find something to hunt all day long. There's a pretty common misconception that animals can only be hunted at drink zones or that there are huge dead zones on the maps. That's really not the case for the most part. Before I reset my char, I had probably found around 200 need zones at SRP.

[Pete Gaimari]

I probably shouldn't say this but I don't hunt the zones. At least the obvious ones.

My hunting is exploring, scouting, and listening for calls. When I hear a call from an animal i'm hunting i'll try to sneak into it.

I sort of remove all that makes COTW easier than Classic and hunt it that way. Think of it as Classic with good graphics and no tracks.

[Falcon]

Just wanted to make sure you weren't under the impression that the animals at SRP disappear when drink time is over

[OleGreyGhost]

Originally posted by petegaimari:

Hunting at night isn't even legal in my state.

Did you check your state regs for fox & coyotes ?? It is legal in my state. Deer & elk - daylight only.

There aren't any prohibitions in the COTW reserves for night hunting.....