My stats show 250 real hours played, but I've only had 7 island events. The VV2 leaderboard shows that players with approx. the same hours played have had many more events & I'm wondering if pausing my game so much has had an effect. I do not time travel (my hubby did that on VV1 & killed my entire village!), but I frequently pause or change the game speed, depending on how closely I can watch my game. Any thoughts?

The Island Events will occur about once a day, but can be far less frequent if you don't check the game very often. Different playing styles do affect the frequency of events.

Ah, I see - it's me & my style!

Thanks for the help, LadyCFII & thanks again for such a great followup to 1 of my all-time favorite games!

Same thing happened to me. have over 200 hours played and only 8 events and haven't had any since the second day i was playing. is this the same thing? how i play the game?

You can always check the game log each time you exit the game, to see if there are any events scheduled.

Barbara, can you explain how to do that - maybe I'm just a bit brain dead at the moment, but there's a line in my log that says:

Tue Feb 27 09:56:38 2007: Triggering event in block 4. Current time is 432974, next event at 476174

So how do I work out when the next one is due?

Those times are in seconds. Subtract the first number from the second number and divide by 3600, which gives the number of hours until the next event. Add those hours to the time stamp, and you know when to expect the next one. Simple!

And the questions get sillier Does it matter what speed game I'm playing? Say I change from Normal to Half overnight - what does that do to the timing (just want to be sure I'm around when it's due to pop up!)

The event will occur at the scheduled time, regardless of game speed changes.

Hi,
I've been lurking forever on here - just absolutely enjoying the game. By once a day, are saying once every 24 hours of playing time? I've got 288 hours in and have just 3 events. No time traveling! I do pause the game when I'm not here to babysit. I don't trust them yet!