I've just completed a game in 82 hours.



I wasn't trying to go fast, it just happened. I do have a theory, though. In the middle stages when I was beginning to build up the population the balance of the sexes was wrong, with many more boys than girls. When I got up to 30 I had 18 men, 7 kids (mostly boys) and only 5 women (none nursing at that time). That meant that even though the women spent a good part of their lives nursing, not so high a proportion was 'unproductive', as the men carried on working. Does that make sense?