Also affected by speed/time is the growth of the garden -- how much time it takes before harvesting a crop, and the amount of hours the fire runs before it needs to be relit. I know that I can't spend a great amount of time playing, but I don't like to turn the game off completely, so I keep it at 1/2 time all the time, and the fire stays lit for 39 Isola hours (I think it is 19 hours for normal time), which is more than enough for me to visit my village once a night without the fire going out. At the beginning of my first VV2 game I tried to rush the growing cycle by putting it on 2X without having reserve food ... NOT GOOD.... for the villagers eat twice as much LOL, and don't move twice as fast to collect it. You can set people to planting crops as an introduction to farming if you are short of food (they don't have to be farmers), and if they are ok with that, they will learn quickly to go fishing or collect coconuts soon thereafter while waiting for the crops.