I've posted this in another thread already but I feel like time in the game is going too quick. I've seen some posts about it on FB, so I decided to make a post about it and hope the Devs will notice. Maybe people disagree but it would be nice if you can slow down the speed of the days. Maybe as an option to set before starting the game. Like 3 seconds per day is too fast for me.
In-game time going bye too quick
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About the pace of the game: remember you are watching the streamers play a Sandbox version of the first Scenario!! Things are happening a lot quicker, because the zoo in that build is pre-made and has a lot of options and activities already.
In the actual Career Mode the pacing is much slower, and you'll go through multiple tutorials. This is not being shown on stream at the moment
Hope that eases your worries about pacing! The team took specific care to ease you into the game slowly.
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Bo
The thing I would like to know, is wether in game time is still being followed when animals are pregnant. Because Elephants carry an baby for 18? 20? months. So expanding your elephant herd would be quite a hustle, and so it should be.
If a in-game year takes an hour in real life that is fine with me. But it should also take 1,5 hours before a Elephant delivers a new baby.
Also note a lot of the streamers don't really pay attention to the notifications, and also speed up time, which makes it look like there are a lot of them. But in general I'm happy with the pacing, I guess it's the same as with Planco.
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I dont think the time system is finalized yet in the current build we are seeing, Im sure sandbox will have a variety of settings while scenarios will have different restrictions.
here is how it works in Planco: a single month in Planco is approximately 12-14 minutes, with 8 months in a year (skipping November 1st - March 1st) a full year is approx 96-112mins (thats with default settings) also the sun cycle sets and rises once per month
You can change the hours per day your park is open and the cycle will skip over the hours your park is closed (so if your park is open 24hours a day then each month will be longer, but if your park opens for less than 24hours then months will go by faster) you can even set the park to only be open at night if you want. I think parks are usually open about 16hours per day/month with the default settings
here is how it works in Planco: a single month in Planco is approximately 12-14 minutes, with 8 months in a year (skipping November 1st - March 1st) a full year is approx 96-112mins (thats with default settings) also the sun cycle sets and rises once per month
You can change the hours per day your park is open and the cycle will skip over the hours your park is closed (so if your park is open 24hours a day then each month will be longer, but if your park opens for less than 24hours then months will go by faster) you can even set the park to only be open at night if you want. I think parks are usually open about 16hours per day/month with the default settings
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I think that is just because the park they were given to play is meant to be a challenge, if you're designing your own zoo I doubt you would get nearly as many notifications if you actually take care of your animals.I've seen the post yeah. But I would like an option for a slower pace. I want to enjoy the game and not like I've seen so far a clusterf* of notifications of animals dying and starving
I wouldn't mind an option to adjust time speeds, if they really are planning for 1 day = 3 seconds in the release game. That translates to 1 month = ~90 seconds and 1 year = ~18 minutes. One hour of gameplay would translate to over 3 years in-game. With many animals, that wouldn't matter at all. But with any species with a shorter lifespan... you could see an entire animal's lifetime fly by in just a couple hours of playing. To a point, that's fine I guess. But I remember back in the day playing Zoo Tycoon 2, when I had finally built a very large extensive zoo, I would simply get rid of all of my animals like the peacocks and gazelle simply because I got tired of them crapping out babies every few minutes and then dying after like an hour of owning them (assuming I bought them vs they were born in my zoo... born ones lived like 2 hours).
In my opinion, the ideal game would give me the option to adjust the way time flies. Early on in the game when I'm still building everything from scratch and I don't have much, I don't want the time to fly by like nothing. I don't want to see my animals dying of old age while I'm just starting to build my third or fourth exhibit. Heck, I don't really even want animals to start having babies super fast. Otherwise I get so caught up in building the rest of my zoo, I lose emotional attachment to my earlier exhibits because they're on like generation 10 already and I stopped naming them forever ago because I ran out of ideas and stopped caring about them. But in the later game when I have most everything I want the way I want it, then I'll care more about long-term maintenance. That's when I'd want to see more breeding. That's when I feel like I'd have the time to enjoy actually witnessing my animals live out their lives. Perhaps my issue is that I just get so caught up in building and well, simulating, that I just forget to take the time to stop and enjoy my creation once in a while XD
In my opinion, the ideal game would give me the option to adjust the way time flies. Early on in the game when I'm still building everything from scratch and I don't have much, I don't want the time to fly by like nothing. I don't want to see my animals dying of old age while I'm just starting to build my third or fourth exhibit. Heck, I don't really even want animals to start having babies super fast. Otherwise I get so caught up in building the rest of my zoo, I lose emotional attachment to my earlier exhibits because they're on like generation 10 already and I stopped naming them forever ago because I ran out of ideas and stopped caring about them. But in the later game when I have most everything I want the way I want it, then I'll care more about long-term maintenance. That's when I'd want to see more breeding. That's when I feel like I'd have the time to enjoy actually witnessing my animals live out their lives. Perhaps my issue is that I just get so caught up in building and well, simulating, that I just forget to take the time to stop and enjoy my creation once in a while XD
Note: The time is probably not final, as the time of day doesn't change in this build unless you do it manually. Meaning that the clock is just acting off on its own.