Extension of the seasons / Verlängerung der Jahreszeiten

[Reinhard002]

Hello, I wrote to the support to ask if you could extend the seasons. As a single player, it is not possible to reach higher levels without the help of others because the seasons are so short. Now the support has written to me that I should put a discussion in the forum and if that would be good for others, you could then run the seasons slower, so extend.
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Hallo, ich habe den Support angeschrieben um zu fragen ob man die Jahreszeiten verlängern könnte. Als Einzelspieler ist es nicht möglich ohne Hilfe von anderen höhere Level zu erreichen da die Jahreszeiten so kurz sind. Nun hat der Support mir geschrieben das ich eine Diskussion ins Forum stellen soll und wenn das auch andere gut finden würden könnte man dann die Jahreszeiten langsamer ablaufen lassen, also verlängern.
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Hello,

Feel free to start a discussion in the forums https://steamcommunity.com/app/673950/discussions/ or the official Discord channel https://discord.gg/nf69c5v to see what others think. If there's enough interest from people we may end up adding an option to slow things down.

Regards,

[Followlon]

Eine Option mit der man die Dauer der Jahreszeiten verändern kann ??

Von mir ein Ja / Yes

[Thryden]

Originally posted by Reinhard002:

As a single player, it is not possible to reach higher levels without the help of others because the seasons are so short.

Disagree with this part completely. Every season you can plant high prices plants that give you lots of xp. Add that to the double xp you get when you help out on other's farms and you get xp very fast. I have less than 50 hours on the game and am at level 42 with no help on my farm. While 42 may not be a "higher level", I am sure I can easily reach level 100 by myself.

However, I would still like longer seaons (why did they pick the odd number of 17 min. per season?). Maybe 20-30 min. each, as I trying to get 30 of each tree and I already spend probably about a quarter of the season just harvesting trees.

[Reinhard002]

Originally posted by Bramblestar:

Originally posted by Reinhard002:

As a single player, it is not possible to reach higher levels without the help of others because the seasons are so short.

Disagree with this part completely. Every season you can plant high prices plants that give you lots of xp. Add that to the double xp you get when you help out on other's farms and you get xp very fast. I have less than 50 hours on the game and am at level 42 with no help on my farm. While 42 may not be a "higher level", I am sure I can easily reach level 100 by myself.

However, I would still like longer seaons (why did they pick the odd number of 17 min. per season?). Maybe 20-30 min. each, as I trying to get 30 of each tree and I already spend probably about a quarter of the season just harvesting trees.

Well, that would also fit if a season would be 30 minutes long. The ideal case, as I would have liked, of course, would be 30 days per season and 20 minutes every day as at Stardew Valley.
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Na ja das würde dann ja auch passen wenn eine Jahreszeit 30 Minuten lang wäre. Der Idealfall wie ich es natürlich gerne gehabt hätte wären 30 Tage pro Jahreszeit und jeden Tag so 20 Minuten so wie bei Stardew Valley.

[Reinhard002]

Originally posted by Followlon:

Eine Option mit der man die Dauer der Jahreszeiten verändern kann ??

Von mir ein Ja / Yes :cleankey:

Nein, wie ich es verstanden habe würden die einzelnen Jahreszeiten nur länger sein, also nicht als Extrafunktion. Vielleicht eben 30 Minuten satt der jetzigen 17 Minuten.
No, as I understand it, the seasons would only be longer, so not as an extra feature. Maybe just 30 minutes full of the current 17 minutes

[Followlon]

Originally posted by Reinhard002:

Originally posted by Followlon:

Eine Option mit der man die Dauer der Jahreszeiten verändern kann ??

Von mir ein Ja / Yes

Nein, wie ich es verstanden habe würden die einzelnen Jahreszeiten nur länger sein, also nicht als Extrafunktion. Vielleicht eben 30 Minuten satt der jetzigen 17 Minuten.
No, as I understand it, the seasons would only be longer, so not as an extra feature. Maybe just 30 minutes full of the current 17 minutes

Aber in der Mail steht doch: " If there's enough interest from people we may end up adding an option to slow things down."

Bedeutet das nicht übersetzt: "Wenn es genug Interesse von Leuten gibt, können wir am Ende eine Option hinzufügen, um die Dinge zu verlangsamen."

Daher bin ich von ausgegangen, das es eine Option geben soll.

[KillTheGoat]

I think it would be better to chose the length of season for your specific farm. That way those of us who like shorter seasons can have them, and those who like longer seasons get them.

[Reinhard002]

Originally posted by cupcakequeen754:

I think it would be better to chose the length of season for your specific farm. That way those of us who like shorter seasons can have them, and those who like longer seasons get them.

Perfect. That would be even better than my suggestion. I'll send the developer the link to this discussion so he can see that the topic interests others as well
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Perfekt. Das wäre natürlich noch besser als mein Vorschlag. Ich werde dem Entwickler mal den Link zu dieser Diskussion zuschicken damit er sieht daß das Thema auch noch andere interessiert.

[WaaghMan]

Hi,

First of all, "Why 17 minutes?": Because if we chose a number such as 15, 20 or 30, it would mean that people with a regular play schedule would always play in the same seasons (for example, if you always play for 30 minutes every day at 9pm, you may end up playing on Summer and Fall only).

Second, if we just make longer seasons, Trees would just be a worse source of income (they are balanced with the current 17 minutes in mind). So if we allow an option to slow things down, it should slow everything down (for example, 50% slower: 25 minutes per season, Lettuce takes 15 minutes to grow, etc).

[Reinhard002]

Originally posted by Followlon:

Originally posted by Reinhard002:

Nein, wie ich es verstanden habe würden die einzelnen Jahreszeiten nur länger sein, also nicht als Extrafunktion. Vielleicht eben 30 Minuten satt der jetzigen 17 Minuten.
No, as I understand it, the seasons would only be longer, so not as an extra feature. Maybe just 30 minutes full of the current 17 minutes

Aber in der Mail steht doch: " If there's enough interest from people we may end up adding an option to slow things down."

Bedeutet das nicht übersetzt: "Wenn es genug Interesse von Leuten gibt, können wir am Ende eine Option hinzufügen, um die Dinge zu verlangsamen."

Daher bin ich von ausgegangen, das es eine Option geben soll.

Kann sein ich habe mit dem Google-Übersetzter übersetzt, da mein englisch miserabel ist :-)

[Reinhard002]

Originally posted by WaaghMan:

Hi,

First of all, "Why 17 minutes?": Because if we chose a number such as 15, 20 or 30, it would mean that people with a regular play schedule would always play in the same seasons (for example, if you always play for 30 minutes every day at 9pm, you may end up playing on Summer and Fall only).

Second, if we just make longer seasons, Trees would just be a worse source of income (they are balanced with the current 17 minutes in mind). So if we allow an option to slow things down, it should slow everything down (for example, 50% slower: 25 minutes per season, Lettuce takes 15 minutes to grow, etc).

I'm already clear that it is awkward to realize what I envisioned because it would take a lot of deep into the game. As I said, I always have Stardow Valley in mind, that would be the ideal case in terms of timing, but of course the whole game would probably have to be turned upside down. Nevertheless, I think it would be good if she tried to settle it in time as in Stardow Valley. The timing in Stardow Vally is just a guide.
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Mir ist schon klar das es umständlich ist das was mir vorschwebt zu realisieren weil man dazu doch schon recht tief in das Spiel eingreifen würde. Ich habe wie gesagt immer Stardow Valley im Hinterkopf das wäre der Idealfall was den Zeitablauf angeht, aber dazu müßte natürlich das ganze Spiel vermutlich umgekrempelt werde. Ich fände es trotzdem gut wenn sie versuchen würde es zeitlich einigermaßen wie in Stardow Valley zu regeln. Das mit dem Zeitablauf in Stardow Vally meine ich nur als Anhaltspunkt.

[Thryden]

Originally posted by WaaghMan:

Hi,

First of all, "Why 17 minutes?": Because if we chose a number such as 15, 20 or 30, it would mean that people with a regular play schedule would always play in the same seasons (for example, if you always play for 30 minutes every day at 9pm, you may end up playing on Summer and Fall only).

Didn't think of that. I guess the devs knew what they were doing when making the seasons instead of just picking a random number.

Too those suggesting you can change the length of seasons, that could be abused very easily.

For example, you really need winter to come so you can plant this crop for a quest, so you lower the time to the lowest so the other seasons fly by, then jump up the time so that winter stays for a while so you can get your crop planted.

The only way to fix this would be to pick the length of seasons when you create the farm, and whatever time you pick stays for the farm forever, but that has problems too.

You pick 30 min. for example, thinking that's a good time, but as you get going on your farm, you realize maybe it's not as long/short as you wanted. Now you either got to deal with it or start over with a new farm.

So yeah, I'm starting to think 17 min. is the best.