Pondering How Time Works in the Sims
In the comments on the poll about Paralives and Sims 5, the subject of characters taking off shoes came up and it made me think about time in Sims 4 (and I guess any other life simulation game). In...
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when I first played the game the 2 hour showers drove me crazy. But I realized the the 2 hours represented a real life activities like hygiene, shaving, hair and makeup, toenail clipping.
So, when you think about it, sims appear to walk, talk etc. in real time and yet their day lasts 24 minutes. How do you make a game that has 24 hours of actions and reduce it to 24 minutes? Make everything go at 24X speed? Have sims move at normal speed but have cooking, dressing, gardening take up a fraction of the time? Drop daily activities like toenail clipping, making the bed and taking off shoes?
Of course, the game could be changed so that putting on pyjamas "early" gave a comfort buff.
So, when you think about it, sims appear to walk, talk etc. in real time and yet their day lasts 24 minutes. How do you make a game that has 24 hours of actions and reduce it to 24 minutes? Make everything go at 24X speed? Have sims move at normal speed but have cooking, dressing, gardening take up a fraction of the time? Drop daily activities like toenail clipping, making the bed and taking off shoes?
Of course, the game could be changed so that putting on pyjamas "early" gave a comfort buff.
