Please slow down the time speed of the game.
- Thread starter SleepyEngi
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Agreed, it needs to be reduced to at least half its current speed. After learning about the level of detail they put into the game about each animal having unique animation sets, different stats and genes, the ability to name them etc. it's all utterly pointless at the moment - If you have more than a few enclosures there is absolutely no way anyone is even going to notice whether or not certain animals have different animation set or not, I doubt anyone will even know their animal's names at that point. The lives of the animals in your park fly by with no chance to get to know them, it basically just feels like a mass breeding simulator atm with no connection with the individual animals in your zoo, exactly the opposite to what I expected judging from the time and effort they spent making each animal unique - they may as well not have bothered. I don't mind them having an option to speed up the passage of time for those that want it to go quicker, but this should not be the base speed of the game. I had hardly finished building and designing my second enclosure before the animals in my first were nearly at the end of their lifespan and I had about 20 ostrich chicks running round from just 2 parents. I've recently seen a devs comment on a review highlighting this issue and their ignorant response was "you can pause the game while building" showing they don't even come close to understanding the actual problem in the first place.
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Yes! Please fix it! I was so excited to play, but man, does time go by way too fast! I cant even look at all the baby animals walking around my zoo before half of them become adults!
Me too.
I agree.
I spent 90% of my time playing paused, this doesn't feel right at all.
And the faster speeds are totally unnecessary right now
I spent 90% of my time playing paused, this doesn't feel right at all.
And the faster speeds are totally unnecessary right now
God, yes, please. Same here. I am constantly paused. Trying to sort out a new enclosure with the time running on normal speed is impossible. By the time you are done, the rest of your zoo has totally escalated. I am constantly pausing, going through enclosures, sorting out the animals, by the time I'm done, I'm back at the first enclosure and again, taking out babies. I only have 3 enclosures and 4 exhibits at this point. I tried letting the time run normally and going through enclosures, but then I had inbreeding happening because the babies have grown up and I was just taking out the babies from another enclosure and missed it.
Yes, i can pause the game. But I feel like I spent about 18 hours in pause from the 21 hours I have played since the release. One can argue, that you just need to manage things better or get quicker, but that is not why I play a game like this. I want to enjoy myself, I want to watch the animals for a bit, without coming back to an overcrowded or empty enclosure because I missed that they popped out babies or the last animal just died, while I was watching another animal. I want to bond with them, I want to feel bad when they are unhappy and want to really WANT to make their life better because I care, not because the game mechanic sais I need to. Please, please, PLEASE allow me to do that. Frontier has put so much effort and making the animals realistic and it all gets lost because I'm mostly scrolled way out, rushing from here to there and micromanaging things that I should not have to micromanage.
Yes, i can pause the game. But I feel like I spent about 18 hours in pause from the 21 hours I have played since the release. One can argue, that you just need to manage things better or get quicker, but that is not why I play a game like this. I want to enjoy myself, I want to watch the animals for a bit, without coming back to an overcrowded or empty enclosure because I missed that they popped out babies or the last animal just died, while I was watching another animal. I want to bond with them, I want to feel bad when they are unhappy and want to really WANT to make their life better because I care, not because the game mechanic sais I need to. Please, please, PLEASE allow me to do that. Frontier has put so much effort and making the animals realistic and it all gets lost because I'm mostly scrolled way out, rushing from here to there and micromanaging things that I should not have to micromanage.
I know this doesn't really matter (because it's just a number) but:
It sits really wrong with me that some people were already on year 58 or so after just one day of playing the game. If you take that over a 30-day month of playing, that means you'd have a zoo that's roughly 1,740 years of age.
That, along with the fact (as far as I'm aware) staff never retire, I just... It boggles the mind that anyone could think that's acceptable. Again I know it's just an in game number but you should not have a zoo that's as old as A.C timeline after just a month and a half of playing. Especially if staff never retire, that means you have 2,000 year old keepers running around your zoo.
Point is: even if I ignore all the other reasons why I want slower time, it makes no sense as a management game to be able to progress that fast. Even playing say Tropico 6 you're only really playing about 100 years or so of your country's history, give or take.
It sits really wrong with me that some people were already on year 58 or so after just one day of playing the game. If you take that over a 30-day month of playing, that means you'd have a zoo that's roughly 1,740 years of age.
That, along with the fact (as far as I'm aware) staff never retire, I just... It boggles the mind that anyone could think that's acceptable. Again I know it's just an in game number but you should not have a zoo that's as old as A.C timeline after just a month and a half of playing. Especially if staff never retire, that means you have 2,000 year old keepers running around your zoo.
Point is: even if I ignore all the other reasons why I want slower time, it makes no sense as a management game to be able to progress that fast. Even playing say Tropico 6 you're only really playing about 100 years or so of your country's history, give or take.
I have mixed feelings about this. Because yes I agree that time does go by really fast.... I run a reptile zoo and my animals don't even mature until age 14..
And still there's nothing we can really do about baby animals... Other than put them into storage..
I want to breed my animals... But I don't want to wait for 10 hours of gameplay until I can finally do something with the babies..
And still there's nothing we can really do about baby animals... Other than put them into storage..
I want to breed my animals... But I don't want to wait for 10 hours of gameplay until I can finally do something with the babies..
Everyone that wants time to stay the same only ever brings up the animals that take a long time to mature.
But what about the vast majority that don't? What was it, something like 18min lifespan for some of the exhibit animals? I'd like to see someone justify how 18min is a good lifespan length for an animal, especially when you can't even breed them to keep the population up, because after just one breeding it's too crowded and their welfare drops. You shouldn't have to add the even more annoying micromanagement of having to buy a new animal every 18min. Period.
I don't even bother with exhibit animals at the current speed because they basically just bleed money.
But what about the vast majority that don't? What was it, something like 18min lifespan for some of the exhibit animals? I'd like to see someone justify how 18min is a good lifespan length for an animal, especially when you can't even breed them to keep the population up, because after just one breeding it's too crowded and their welfare drops. You shouldn't have to add the even more annoying micromanagement of having to buy a new animal every 18min. Period.
I don't even bother with exhibit animals at the current speed because they basically just bleed money.
I don't think by any means that the time speed should stay the same.
I think they should slow time down.. but also do something about the long maturity animals, like allow us to work with juveniles rather than infants. Trade or sell them...
Yeah I wasn't necessarily talking about you specifically. It's just something I've noticed, that a lot of people ask "what about the long living animals?" without really acknowledging the rest.
Idk like yeah even at the current speed it took my tortoises forever to grow up in the beta build but I... Didn't mind? There's so many other animal species that kept me busy in the meantime
Idk like yeah even at the current speed it took my tortoises forever to grow up in the beta build but I... Didn't mind? There's so many other animal species that kept me busy in the meantime
I guess that what i get for having a passion for reptiles and choosing to start with strictly reptiles... Almost all of them mature so slowly.
As for exhibit animals I noticed the ones I had lived for an unusually long time... Like 40year old gila monsters and 20 year old frogs... And my brown snakes had pregnant babies... Unless those mature within a month..?
But if you are concentrating on only slow maturing reptiles, you could speed time up in between if you are not currently building something and mainly waiting for the babies to mature?
Gila monsters (according to google) have a 30 year life expectancy in zoos (it's set to 25 years according to the zoopedia) but it might also depend on genetics, I suppose. Even the exhibit animals have a longevity gen, so the better that is, the older they might grow. Also, life expectancy has been changed slightly, to combat the 'time goes to fast' complaint, by giving you slightly longer time with the animal before it pases away. Not the best solution, in my opinion, but there we have it. I'm guessing the 40 year old gila monster comes from those factors and changes.
Same goes for frogs, I suppose. Life expectancy of a goliath frog, according to google, can be up to 15 years, add a few more to compabt the fast pace and then enjoy the powers of the longevity gene.
As for baby brown snakes becoming pregnant, that does sound like a bug to me and might be worth reporting?
I made an account specifically to agree with this. Man its like im some kind of breeding company. Im actually afraid of building anything else, i spend most of the time balancing the habitats, removing excess animals from it. And i have like, 4 habitats, and 8 insects. Good lord, If Noah had bring those animals in his ark we wouldnt have space for humans on this planet.
I accidentally click fast-foward and now i have "planet of the apes" movie, this is some kinda of easter-egg? ironic tone
I accidentally click fast-foward and now i have "planet of the apes" movie, this is some kinda of easter-egg? ironic tone
I have had literally no problems at all with game speed so far - not one. Ok so I build in Sandbox and then move it over so am effectively pausing the game but I pause the game all the time when I turn off the computer. I look for my early animals and see how they are getting up and what they are upto. I celebrate when they get pregnant I mourn when they die
no issues whatsoever with the time the game runs at I find it all ok
no issues whatsoever with the time the game runs at I find it all ok
Then you still could use the faster options if you like. But for us who like a slower timepassing their is no way to accomplish it... ☹... I just agree with everything why we need slower time like already mentioned here (and on many other topics). PLEASE change something on it Frontier... we have no problem with more arrows to set our favorite timepassing
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