Day / Night Cycle

[Steven]

Hey

Why is the day / night cycle so damn uneven? Like when I'm starting out i have to wait sooo long to do anything because i gotta wait till day to charge my batteries. then day is only like a few mintues while night is like 10 m or something???

[Qhris]

Both day and night are 10 minutes long.
It seems that there is an imbalance around when you start the game out, which leads you to start the game at different times.

I recommend using the solid fuel generator early on to charge your batteries.

[Steven]

thanks

can you reiterate on the imbalance? are you saying my day IS shorter because of when i started my game?

[Qhris]

Yes.

If you start a game, and then keep quitting and remaking new games, you'll soon realize that the game is starting you off at the ingame time of when you last quit.

So, what I did was to simply start up a game, wait until it was dawn, and then exit and make a new game. Otherwise, you can guesstimate (or clock it with a watch) and start yourself off just before dawn to get yourself some time to set up a solar panel.

[Steven]

ahh, i see. this needs fixing then haha. will follow your advice, thx.

[The Entity]

Longer days would be nice. Currently the darkest game in the world cos of how inefficient the power generators are.. Cant justify having lighting etc..

[Nova]

I just build my rooms with motion sensors connected to a logic computer or logic modules that turn lighting on and off upon entering and leaving the room...I agree that constantly lighting the whole base seems to be a huge powerhog especially with big bases but since this game encourages optimizing and conserving resources I think it makes sense and it's fun. In the beginning I just used portable lamps to light up large spaces instead of using a ton of lights

[Steven]

@Wes but then you computer hogs power just to try to save power :D

[Nova]

well the computer is like what 125-150 watts? One light is 50W, my smelting facility has 24 lights I'd still call that a lot better than just running them nonstop ;)

[Tiregan]

It should be setting to make days longer/shorter and make whole cycle longer. There is slider for whole cycle length but it is locked... WTF is doing this slider when it is locked? For annoying people?

[Devil Dog]

Originally posted by Tiregan:

It should be setting to make days longer/shorter and make whole cycle longer. There is slider for whole cycle length but it is locked... WTF is doing this slider when it is locked? For annoying people?

Do you mean the sun orbit slider? If so I think that is locked while you're in a game.

[Qhris]

You just necro'd a 3 year old thread.