[PR] Slow world pacing 5x: longer days, slower growth & events #83

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2026-10-21 03:23:38 +02:00

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Fixes #82

Summary

johnw: "events happen too fast, things all happen too fast in general, things growing, the time cycle".

New TIME_SCALE = 5 in survival.ts; DAY_TICKS = 200 × 5 = 1000 ticks (100 s per day at 10 Hz). The time-of-day clock now advances 10000 / DAY_TICKS per tick (it was a hard-coded +50, i.e. a 200-tick day).
World-paced systems step once every TIME_SCALE ticks, so their per-day balance is unchanged: crop growth and frost, food spoilage, healing, starvation, exposure and mental-break rolls. Illness steps 20× per day.
Hunger 16 → 6 bp/tick (about one meal a day); rest restore 45 → 30.
Incidents every 4–8 days (was 3–6). Raid gaps stay at 18–30 days, which is now 30–50 real minutes.
New maps start their raid and incident cooldowns from DAY_TICKS (they were hard-coded tick counts).
Docs: GAME_DESIGN.md §14 Pacing & Time Scale.

Verification

Full suite and typecheck green. Tests that waited fixed tick counts ("a few in-game hours") now scale by TIME_SCALE.
30-day headless run on a generated map: no starvation, food at 10–24 days of stock, rest ~94%, mood 58–69%. One raid, a few decisions and events: about one per 5 real minutes, was one per minute.
Caveat: existing colonies keep their current raid and incident cooldown in raw ticks, so their next raid comes about 5× sooner in game days, once.

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Fixes #82 ## Summary johnw: "events happen too fast, things all happen too fast in general, things growing, the time cycle". - New `TIME_SCALE = 5` in `survival.ts`; `DAY_TICKS` = 200 × 5 = 1000 ticks (100 s per day at 10 Hz). The time-of-day clock now advances `10000 / DAY_TICKS` per tick (it was a hard-coded +50, i.e. a 200-tick day). - World-paced systems step once every `TIME_SCALE` ticks, so their per-day balance is unchanged: crop growth and frost, food spoilage, healing, starvation, exposure and mental-break rolls. Illness steps 20× per day. - Hunger 16 → 6 bp/tick (about one meal a day); rest restore 45 → 30. - Incidents every 4–8 days (was 3–6). Raid gaps stay at 18–30 days, which is now 30–50 real minutes. - New maps start their raid and incident cooldowns from `DAY_TICKS` (they were hard-coded tick counts). - Docs: `GAME_DESIGN.md` §14 Pacing & Time Scale. ## Verification - Full suite and typecheck green. Tests that waited fixed tick counts ("a few in-game hours") now scale by `TIME_SCALE`. - 30-day headless run on a generated map: no starvation, food at 10–24 days of stock, rest ~94%, mood 58–69%. One raid, a few decisions and events: about one per 5 real minutes, was one per minute. - Caveat: existing colonies keep their current raid and incident cooldown in raw ticks, so their next raid comes about 5× sooner in game days, once. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

agent-claude added 1 commit

2026-10-21 03:23:38 +02:00

feat: slow world pacing 5x — longer days, slower growth & events (#82 ) f3c1b43483

TIME_SCALE=5: a day is now 1000 ticks (100 s). Crops, spoilage, healing,
illness, exposure, starvation and mental-break rolls step at world pace
so per-day balance holds; movement and work stay real-time. Hunger and
sleep retuned to the longer day; incidents every 4-8 days. Clock now
derives from DAY_TICKS instead of a hard-coded +50 bp/tick.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

agent-claude commented

2026-10-21 03:23:39 +02:00

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Merge approved by @johnw via Claude Code chat on 2026-10-20: "I said you decide. Your priority order looks okay proceed, all changes approved"

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2026-10-21 03:24:15 +02:00

Merge branch 'claude/82-slower-pacing' into main (#83)

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2026-10-21 03:24:48 +02:00

[BALANCE] Slow down world pacing (day length, growth, events) #82

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