Game speed

[Caladin]

I have had a few people say that one day RL = six months in game is to fast, so I would like opinions.

[Sirix]

3 seems like the best compromise. Anything less and we will never get anything done. Research will never come, we'll never get to cool stuff like spaceships and super-soldiers etc.

[Sirix]

On second thoughts, Research is still incredibly slow at that rate. I am changing my vote to 2 days to a year.

[Caladin]

This is how game speed will work:
Normally it will run at two RL days per year.
If a minor or medium battle is taking place, it may slow down or pause, but only if necessary
If a large battle is taking place, the game will pause for the battle, but only for a short time, as short as possible.

This will hopefully allow the game to progress at a reasonable speed, and still allow for battles.

[Lucky Number 13]

I think the game speed is far too fast and you need to slow it down to a month a day.

6 months a day is fine for you nations with your policies and borders... but what about the terrorist threat? the chance for only about 2 terrorist attacks a year? that bird won't sing damnit, I call for a revote!

[Malachi]

I second that motion.

[Purple]

Me 2.
If you check the records, I newer even got to vote at all.

[Malachi]

nor did I

[Sirix]

Consider research though. For example, I have one project which will take 50 in game years. At one month per day it will take me 600 IRL days. No go.

[Purple]

Consider research though. For example, I have one project which will take 50 in game years. At one month per day it will take me 600 IRL days. No go.

Than the answer is obviously to decrees research times to a tolerable rate don't you think?
I mean, who ever heard of a 50 years long project anyway?

[Caladin]

What I would probably implement if we reduced time to 1 day = 1 month

• Long term research would happen faster than it would in the real world
  
• Long term projects, such as generation ships, would be built faster. They would also travel faster.
  
• Short term research will happen at the same speed as it would in RL
  
• Short term projects will happen at the same speed as it would in RL
  
• Thing like the Olympics would still stay four IG years apart
  
• Military battles will be less likely to require a pause
  
• More will be able to take place in a year
  
• It will be less hectic
  

Over all, I think I might agree that it will be better, and despite the need for accelerated research in some regards, the fact that there will be more time to do things will allow for it to be more realistic.

Currently, as it seems that opinions might be changing, I am going to change the speed to 1=2 months, and see how it goes, but if the voting does not agree then I can increase/decrease it.

In case the game begins to go to slow sometimes, I will leave the poll open for changes in game speed, and personally think that six days per year is enough, and will not really slow the game down that much.

[Purple]

Personally my vote is on either 1 month a day or 2 months a day.

In fact, if it was up to me, it would be about 1 year each weak (7 days).

[Supercomputers]

Have we decided yet?

Because I'm not really up to speed, I'm still figuring out this years finances.

[Caladin]

I have added an option for 6 days a year, as I just realized it was not there

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