Day length

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I HATED the change from the default day length of 96 to 48 minutes!!!
I believe many other people feel the same way.
I understand that some people prefer playing with 48 minutes (or even less), and I think it’s fair that they can play with the “calibration” suited to their needs and other factors.
In fact, my opinion is that we should be able to play with the appropriate “calibration” in all day length options.
I understand that the game is in a testing phase, and therefore undergoes adjustments as needed… But if there was already a calibration for the 96-minute day duration, why not keep it? Why not keep both?
And even for the 48-minute duration, I think needs are dropping too quickly.

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Why not just change your day length back to 96 minutes in the options? I did that and the needs work fine, much better than 48min IMO.

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I have it at 96 hours and I don’t think the needs are well balanced:

  • Hunger decreases very quickly, every two or three hours you’d already need to be eating, so you’d spend almost all your time cooking, eating, etc., especially in a large family, don’t even get me started…
  • Energy vanishes, it also runs out very fast.
  • Sleep recovers very quickly, in just three or four hours it’s fully restored, so the zoi tends to wake up very early (thankfully, in families you don’t control, they usually stay in bed until daylight).
  • The other needs are fairly well balanced, or at least within a reasonable range.
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My observation is that Zois get hungry very quickly around typical mealtimes (so 7-9am, midday and 6-8pm. At other times of day, hunger decreases much more slowly. So if you make sure feed them around those times, you should be OK the rest of the day.

Energy depends somewhat on what you’re doing, but it’s fairly easy to restore by drinking coffee, meditation or just sitting and relaxing for a while. With sleep I’ve noticed that if I put Zois to bed too early, they’ll wake up after a couple of hours, but then go back to sleep for the rest of the night. Going to bed around 10pm seems to work OK in general.

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Personally, I think this is an admission of a lack of things to do in the game, on Krafton’s part. Reducing the length of the in-game days to prevent the player from getting bored…

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One of the things I was really enjoying was the long days. I never got bored.There always felt like enough to do for me and I didn’t feel like I was chasing needs. When in doubt, go around and talk, or flirt with other Zois.

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I was on 96 mins, but 96 mins are broken now also, after the last update. It is impossible to play. The animations for food and drinks have doubled in length. You can get full even with a glass of water, which will take forever to drink, and then immediately drop the toilet strip. So basically we have no choice. 48 mins, which is hard to play, or 96 mins, which is… hard to play(((

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I stopped playing the game altogether and just use the studios now. I’ll probably completely jump ship in another month, or so. There’s new games coming out and I’m supposed to be moving any way.

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It doubled for the 96min, but imagine if you can that’s it’s even worse in 4hr days now.
4 hours is 240min, 2,5 times as long as it is in 96min. It’s awful. When a Zoi starts to eat or drink, I just switch to another family member or another family altogether.

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Yeah, I’m having the same problem with the eating animation since 0.4.3. Definitely a bug and quite a serious one. I think I might hold off on playing until they get out a hotfix.

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I haven’t really played with the 4 hour duration so I’m kinda curious to try it out.

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@Liessahl Are you talking about the eating time?

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Yes, the eating time - I’ve made a more detailed comment over in the bug report thread. I don’t know how well it works with other day lengths as I only use 96 min.

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the current bug is saving me on meals. my zois grabs a piece of steak or slice of pizza, then hardly touches it and their huger full anyways, so into the fridge it goes

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Which is nice, but the eating time is WAYY too fast now…

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yeah im actually one of those whos happy about the 48min days because you had way to much free time in 96min i never grew up or something because it took so long for days to pass

But i completely understand that it definetly needs to be calibrated to 96min players so everyone is happy. its a sandbox game afterall and everyone should be able change settings to their liking.

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Exactly! They should calibrate the needs and animations to work well in all day duration options. So that all players can play properly according to their preference. If it’s not like that, what’s the point of having these various options?