It is still real time?

[Jehova's Thickness]

It's like the phone version and it takes you forever to do ♥♥♥♥ or is more like This War of Mine management system?

[Ogami]

Still real time. The whole cash shop is build around that, selling you items that makes stuff go faster.

[CrumbleCat]

It's the exact same game, and I'm not sure how people don't get bored out of their minds after 10-15 mins. This is barely a game. And 4 hours to birth a baby? What the heck, man. Am I supposed to alt-tab this game for 10 mins at a time every time I've collected my stuff? That's that's what's happening now.

[morph113]

In case you didn't know this game, you might enjoy "Sheltered" which is a mix of Fallout Shelter and This War of Mine.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/356040/

[Ogami]

Originally posted by MasterCrumble:

It's the exact same game, and I'm not sure how people don't get bored out of their minds after 10-15 mins. This is barely a game. And 4 hours to birth a baby? What the heck, man. Am I supposed to alt-tab this game for 10 mins at a time every time I've collected my stuff? That's that's what's happening now.

Well its fun in short bursts. I start the game, muck around for a few minutes and close it. Repeat a few hours later.
Its NOT a game to have on for hours on end. Way to little happening for that, especially at the beginning when you have a small vault and not many dwellers.

[ScruffyBamboo]

Originally posted by MasterCrumble:

It's the exact same game, and I'm not sure how people don't get bored out of their minds after 10-15 mins. This is barely a game. And 4 hours to birth a baby? What the heck, man. Am I supposed to alt-tab this game for 10 mins at a time every time I've collected my stuff? That's that's what's happening now.

This game is meant to be played in short spurts. You don't actually wait 4 hours - you log off, and when you come back the next day, the babies are ready to be born. It's the same thing with missions out to the wasteland. If you had to wait for them in real time, you'd never get anything done.

Whether this is a good thing or not is up to debate, but this is NOT the type of game you'll lose hours upon hours playing. I've played this game for more than a year (I have a fully upgraded, 200-person vault on my tablet), and I don't think I ever played more than maybe one hour at a time. It's just that type of game - you check in on it every once in a while, and you progress slowly but surely.

[CrumbleCat]

Oh, I didn't realize it progresses when the game has been shut down. I can see that'd be much better... but wouldn't it have been better if they remade the game for PC? Remove all the microtransaction stuff, make the timers much shorter, and maybe increase item progression. I dunno.

It seems people are enjoying it, so maybe I'm trying to play this game too seriously.

[EdmeXIII (Alex)]

I only login to the game for a few minutes at a time. To harvest power, food, and water, and also to check up on the people that are training their SPECIAL stats. I'll logout for a couple hours, then log back in for a few minutes to check up on them again. Though, if I notice that my shelter is getting low on power (to the point where rooms may start shutting down from lack of power), then I'll stay logged in for a little longer to help get the power back online.

As far as 'giving birth' to new residents. If I remember correctly, the females are pregnant for three hours, then it takes an additional three hours for the kids to grow into adults that are able to work.