I'd like to get a reading of how long people want activities in LT to take in real time. This doesn't take into account things like pausing to issue commands, or time acceleration, or anything, though all of those are certainly good options. So please, take the poll and let your voice be heard. There are three subtopics, and I can only make one poll. Therefor, you get three choices. Sure, you could vote for three of the same, but I'd encourage you to take it correctly.

There are no correct answers. If my poll doesn't cover your answer, please post below.

You are only allowing one answer per person here. Could you fix that?

You limited it to single-answer-only, you should change that to 3 choices (one for ship, station and mining)

15-30min for ship
1-2 hours station
~15 min for mining

Where's the "this should be a user selectable option with a slider at Universe Creation time" option?

Gah, I thought I changed that. My bad. It's good now, I think?

McDuff wrote:Where's the "this should be a user selectable option with a slider at Universe Creation time" option?

That's a good idea. This is just a quick poll, I just wanted to get a sense of what people felt were reasonable timescales for these. I certainly would like more customization. I suppose that this is just to figure out what the default settings people would prefer are.

I'm not sure... Where on the scale is a medium ship situated?
How much larger is it than a small ship, or smaller than the biggest ship?

Katorone wrote:I'm not sure... Where on the scale is a medium ship situated?
How much larger is it than a small ship, or smaller than the biggest ship?

I knew that would pop up. For a medium sized ship, picture what Josh is flying around in update vids, or slightly larger. Certainly not capital-sized, nor a drone fighter.
For a medium station, picture a station that has all the essentials, but barely. It's more than a storage for ore, but it isn't a big fleet hangar or anything.

I realize that definitions can vary, but the goal isn't to find an exact number.

Still, without an idea of function, it's very hard to guestimate what would be fair and fun. Personally, I wouldn't mind if building the biggest station would take a few IRL weeks (100h?).
I'll leave my vote be for now, we'll see when more details are known.

Katorone wrote:Still, without an idea of function, it's very hard to guestimate what would be fair and fun. Personally, I wouldn't mind if building the biggest station would take a few IRL weeks (100h?).
I'll leave my vote be for now, we'll see when more details are known.

That's an interesting idea. Does time progress when you are offline? I'd suspect something has already been decided, is this is what is being done?

Keon wrote:

Katorone wrote:Still, without an idea of function, it's very hard to guestimate what would be fair and fun. Personally, I wouldn't mind if building the biggest station would take a few IRL weeks (100h?).
I'll leave my vote be for now, we'll see when more details are known.

That's an interesting idea. Does time progress when you are offline? I'd suspect something has already been decided, is this is what is being done?

there is no "offline".

either you run your game or you do not.
there cant be any progression while not there, except if you let the game run and you are AFK

Cornflakes_91 wrote:there is no "offline".

either you run your game or you do not.
there cant be any progression while not there, except if you let the game run and you are AFK

Actually, this brings up a good point.

We could have an "offline" in the technical sense of the word. Maybe an option to tick where it uses your system time to see how long between times you've played, that way the universe COULD progress if you're not playing it (using the same fast simulation that the history generation would use).

It would definitely make for some interesting concepts.

Animal Crossing checked your console's clock as well to some extent.

Hrmmm....

State of Decay uses such a mechanic. Usually to your detriment, as your stockpiles get reduced, your survivors get into trouble, and other sundry minor catastrophes happen. It's not simply checking the clock, though, as it "freezes" the modified gamestate after a while, to prevent you from being totally screwed over if you don't play for a week or two.

It's still a rather irksome mechanic. I can see that as an option, but not as the default mode.

I'm all for long construction times for ships and stations. Resources related and with some sense of accomplishment. For the mining tours I'm good for a half an hour good of a full cargo hold

There's something so beautiful about seeing bell curves. It seems like the most common opinions are:

10-30 minutes for a ship
Several hours for a station
5-15 minutes for mining.

That's good info.