What are the benefits/drawbacks of using the different time speed settings - 1/2 speed, normal, 2X?
I see many mentions of 2X being negative.
On VV1 I always used 2X because things were moving just too slowly for me.
I'm still trying to figure that out myself. I too use 2x speed most of the time when I can monitor a village. Actually, I have one village that has been running at 2x continuously, round the clock since the day after I found out that VV2 was available... 868 hours now. <editing... correction... has been running at normal speed...>
If a village is young or I want to keep fairly close tabs on it, I put it to 1/2x when I am going to bed or not able to look in on it for several hours.
Production seems to slow down a LOT at 1/2x. Food gathering, while it may appear on the screen to be about the same at all speeds, slows down with slower speeds since the values of most food items (all except for mushrooms and crabs) is less at the lower speeds. So one trip to the coconut tree yields less at 1/2 and normal speed than at 2x. Food consumption goes down at lower speeds too.... it seems to be a function of villager time.
I don't have any real conclusive evidence of how much production slows down/speeds up at various speeds, though. What I do have, and would be happy to post it if anyone is interested, is the values of each coconut, veggie, etc. at each of the three speeds. Seems as though I might have put this up on this forum a week or so ago, but I can't find it now.
So, the answer to your questions? I don't know, except that there MAY be circumstances where the use of 1/2 speed takes advantage of food gathered at higher speeds and when the value of mushrooms is the same at the lower speed.
Jer
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