Any way to speed up the game past x3?

[HottieWithAShottie]

Dev mode? Cheats? I can't find any mods that do this, which is weird since a x5/x10 speed mod is usually one of the first things mods to get made for a city builder that doesn't already have that as a time setting.

I love the game but as it is I spent 50% of my time alt-tabbed doing something else, waiting; for gold income, for new villagers, for construction to be completed. It's really dragging down the experience.

[Yopt]

The game is also quite slow to my taste, had to wait through way too much time doing almost nothing, even though I never play on lower than x3. Nice soundtrack helps only by a little bit.

But there are two things to mention:

1. You can use Cheat Engine's speedhack, it works.

2. But it won't do you much good, because your settlement will most likely bug out with overconsuming and/or underproducing resources. Even with the in-game default x3 there is already something like 10% or 15% disproportion of resource producing compared to x1, imagine what will happen on x5 or x10.

This is a scourge of all similar games, because a lot of calculations are made in real time with even more variables and physically speeding up the process introduces issues to those calculations. I believe x3 is sort of a maximum you can get without getting stuff out of control.