More realistic timeline?

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Always felt that it seemed odd for the entire game to play out over just a couple years in many cases. Entire universe mapped and colonized in just a few months or years. 

Is there a better way to scale the timeline so that it doesn't take eons to travel between stars with a hyperdrive but at the same time you don't go from pre-spaceflight to evolved ethereal non-physical energy being in a couple years?

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I was musing about this too, but I was more thinking maybe just not including a date?

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Doesn't time slow down as you move away from the Earth?  :fuzzy:

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Illauna, reply 2

Doesn't time slow down as you move away from the Earth? 

 

time is weird. And scientists still cannot explain why time can pass quicker or slower at some points than at others, but it can. There are a few theories which I won't go into here. Anyway we have to keep in mind this is a turn based game, so it wouldn't make sense(or be fair, especially in multi-player) if one players turn becomes the equivalent of two turns for another player located in a different sector of the universe. I know that wasn't suggested, but my point is that you can go too far with realism.

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I always thought the time line of 1 week per turn worked well.