Right now we have the choices to either make an age group go faster (x2 or x4) or slower (1/2 or 1/4).
While it is better than nothing, that goes completely without saying and thank you for implementing those, it is not precise enough and does not allow me to configure say, a 28 day senior group (either 20 or 40 right now) or having adolescent last 7 days (5 or 10 right now).
Here are 2 ways of improving the mechanic :
#1- The one that most likely will need you to redo your code, longer approach but IMHO the better one :
Simply give us direct input by days in each category.
Clicking the left arrow would remove a day, and the right arrow would add a day.
This is by far the better method of doing this, but I suspect it would be a lot of work for the dev team.
OR
#2- Rework the current multiplicative factor by using a bar akin to the “time bar” at bottom left of the current UI
Basically, each age group would have a slider bar like this, going from x0.1 to x10.0.
It would multiply the current age group length by the number, and round it to the closest INTEGER (34.3 day becomes a solid 34 days and you age at midnight like now).
This one works with the current work put into the new menu by the dev team, they can keep using their code, they just need to change the menu to add those slider bars from x0.1 to x10.0 (otherwise you’d have 100 lines of setting per age group, so the slider bar is a must).
This option should be the easiest and quickest to implement from the dev team and I like it as much as the other one, if not more.
It would look a bit like this (small sample, but you could extrapolate it to encompass the entire age groups and the pregnancy time as well). Since it auto-rounds to the closest integer (no decimal number) AND you’d see the resulting day on the right of the bar in real-time, it would be super easy to set-up (and allow us to save this in the lobby so it applies to all new games / ie: becomes the default so we dont have to edit it each new game, while leaving in the option in-game to be tweaked as well !)
Please consider implementing one of these ASAP, as the current options are very lackluster.
Thank you !