Length of a PC Year

Bullethead

Bullethead
Is there a way to make a PC year last 12 months? I find that a PC year is only 8 months long, from 1 March to 31 October.

Which makes the Christmas-themed stuff kinda strange because the park isn't open for Christmas. But OTOH, that explains why peeps are wearing shorts and sandals when surrounded by "snow" :)
 

Ramm

Ramm
In generally wish we had more control over that stuff and stuff like seasons and weather.

Right now the first thing I do is change the opening hours so when it gets dark it doesn't jump from night to morning in 3 seconds but it actually stays dark for a few ingame hours.

Speaking of ingame hours... Why don't we have a clock in the bottom right corner? This is really a must have!
 

breezerHOG1

breezerHOG1
I have tried posting about this before here https://forums.planetcoaster.com/showthread.php/20152-Does-the-flow-of-time-feel-appropriate-to-you

I think it is strange that PC uses the same calendar as RCT (8 months) but in RCT each month was 7 minutes but in PC each month is 12 minutes. I wonder why the devs felt the need to lengthen each month but not change the calendar. I actually asked Andy C this question directly and he just ignored me [downcast]

Time in PC is irrelevant except for a few certain objectives like "gain X profits in 3 months" or the ride reputation system. I really wish the game involved the calendar and/or time of year more. The way PC is played feels more like a waiting game, you just have to wait for your rides to reach a certain age and then boom your suddenly rich. Its the complete opposite of classic RCT which had a time limit to each scenario giving players a sense of accomplishment when we beat a level... in PC the guests dont even clap for us
 
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Ramm

Ramm
Why can't days be longer though? Like each day having 1 night would be way better. Time goes too fast really. If you kinda wanna enjoy your park and build while not rushing it your park and some of it's rides easy get like years old. Especially if you speed up time sometimes for testing etc
 

BlackShark

B
As far as I know, in the current game, the passing of days, months and years is only here to justify the regular payments of bills, wages and loans.
And there is so little time based planning in the game, the whole calendar system could be replaced by a completely arbitrary time unit, I wouldn't see the difference.
 

Inge Jones

I
I still wish there were a few nights without a full moon. It would be nice to have the electric lighting having more influence on the ambience sometimes, not superceded by the cold blue light.
 

LN

LN
Ramm said:
Why can't days be longer though? Like each day having 1 night would be way better. Time goes too fast really. If you kinda wanna enjoy your park and build while not rushing it your park and some of it's rides easy get like years old. Especially if you speed up time sometimes for testing etc
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There is a function in which you can make the time fixed so you can make the nights and days as long as you personally want so even when speeding up time the lightning is not affected. But I guess you already knew that.

The calendar (how unimportant it may be to the timing schedule) should be a editable one in which you can decide whether you want a year round opening of your park or not. And if they could implement seasons that would be double nice.
 
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