Pause or speed up time?

[Tomatokek]

Anyone know if we will be able to pause or speed up time during actively managing your park? My apologies if this has already been covered. Haven't been able to find any info on it.

[Tomatokek]

Originally posted by Scarif:

Speeding up time in game is one thing we don't know of, It doesn't seem like a speeding up time function would work for a management game with animals like JPOG, and Zoo Tycoon 1 and 2 because a lot can happen in a few moments and it'll be a mess afterwards, I only see these features in other Park management games that really only focus on the money and not animals like Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 and 2, and Planet Coaster, if any of that makes sesne. xD

But if you meant pause the game while you build, we're not sure of that yet either.

Yeah, I have never played any of the zoo tycoons (heard great things) but was a huge fan of roller coaster tycoon 123 and planet coaster. I can totally see the reasoning behind not including the speed up time option. Not a huge fan of this option as I could totally see how it could break zoo tycoon immersion. Would be nice to have a pause time option while I can think things through on where to place stuff.

[Tomatokek]

Originally posted by MessagePuppy 🐕:

I would like to have the option to pause the game if need to improve the Park ( but I’d like this more in Sandbox) speeding up time would be nice- it’s a nice idea

I really enjoyed the speed up time option in FrostPunk. It may not work very well in a game like this due to actually taking care of living things (as scarif pointed out), but who knows! I am for any additional options... as long as they are optional. I would like to see a free build sandbox mode and a additional career sandbox mode as well. I know there is a lot of controversy going on about this subject lol.

[Darth Vader]

You mean " pause or speed up time during actively managing your park? " like in Stellaris and FrostPunk? If yes, this sound great. Because i think it would be much better to run your park. You never know how many dinosaurs are going to escape or get out of control, even when a catastrophe is going to happen ... Imagine this happening at the same time: Catastrophe, free dinosaurs, no energy, etc... It would be a real work to recover everything xD

[Tomatokek]

Originally posted by Darth Vader:

You mean " pause or speed up time during actively managing your park? " like in Stellaris and FrostPunk? If yes, this sound great. Because i think it would be much better to run your park. You never know how many dinosaurs are going to escape or get out of control, even when a catastrophe is going to happen ... Imagine this happening at the same time: Catastrophe, free dinosaurs, no energy, etc... It would be a real work to recover everything xD

Yep! That is exactly what I mean. I really like thinking strategically and the pause option usually makes these types of games way more enjoyable for me. I would be surprised if it was not included, but I haven't had any confirmation.

[Darth Vader]

Originally posted by Tomato:

Originally posted by Darth Vader:

You mean " pause or speed up time during actively managing your park? " like in Stellaris and FrostPunk? If yes, this sound great. Because i think it would be much better to run your park. You never know how many dinosaurs are going to escape or get out of control, even when a catastrophe is going to happen ... Imagine this happening at the same time: Catastrophe, free dinosaurs, no energy, etc... It would be a real work to recover everything xD

Yep! That is exactly what I mean. I really like thinking strategically and the pause option usually makes these types of games way more enjoyable for me. I would be surprised if it was not included, but I haven't had any confirmation.

I hope the dev's see this and put it in the future. I saw a gameplay, but i did not see anything about pausing. And i also did not know of any confirmation. I'll keep an eye out for news.