It would be better if a turn was longer than 1 week

Say to yourself: "It isn't an earth week. The United Planets declared that the Galactic Week would be the equivalent of 2 x 10^16 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom at rest at a temperature of zero K."

That's about a month in human terms.

If that's not enough for you, make it 5 x 10^17 periods and you have two earth years = 1 galactic week.

See how much fun make believe is?

Ah, but you're forgetting that the rate of evolution of species or technology is exponential. That is, technology evolves faster as other technology is developed. For example, it took humans thousands of years to develop the wheel, but it took sixty years for computers that were weaker than pocket calculators taking up many rooms to develop into the personal computers we have today, all capable of working extremely fast, faster than the human brain. So it's not really that much of a step to imagine that humans can achieve immortality five years after they develop hyperdrive. Enjoy.

-Nero

Time is relative. A week is as long as you think it is.

don't forget, if you have 20 planets full with big research centers evolution and technology tends to go fast

Say to yourself: "It isn't an earth week. The United Planets declared that the Galactic Week would be the equivalent of 2 x 10^16 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom at rest at a temperature of zero K."

LOL. Science for the win.

Also, don't forget how a planet can go from 500 million to 17 billion in less than a year. That's like all the families having thirtwins and every kid is a taxpayer as soon as they're born.

How would the military work out if a turn were a year? They move a few parsecs and then they just stop and go on vacation for a year?

Wacky time dilation and stuff. While it seems like only a week on the ship, it is a year relative to the home planet.

Or it can go in the "it's just a game" file along with 3 BILLION space marines on a troop transport, and planetary assults using asteroids and tidal disruptors that do no damage to the planet if you lose the invasion.

They move a few parsecs and then they just stop and go on vacation for a year?

Do they move a few parsecs and then play pool for a week under the current system? I thought it was obvious that simultaneous action (with the ai) was implied.

And what about factory workers? A tin can with a rocket strapped to it takes as long to build as a 3-km dreadnought (with force fields and a black hole minigun) on a big planet. What the heck are they supposed to be doing?

Is this something that can be modded?

Not at present that I'm aware of, but I think Cari mentioned about possibly moving the date stuff into the data files so it can be modded in DA.

Think of it this way, it takes 10 years to half a computer and double the speed after that it takes 5 years to half that computer and double the speed agian and then it takes 2.5 years to half that computer and double the speed agian and so on . . .

Ah, too bad you can't do it already....it'll be nice if DA does make it available though. It's not of the utmost importance but I would like to make an empire that spans the reaches of time and space.....it would give it more of an epic feel in my opinion. Plus it does stretch the imagination a bit to think you can make an empire with tens of billions of people in it after less than ten years.

I understand the basic premise here. However, as already suggested, what is really an alternative? Maybe your leader is always shipboard and traveling at near-light speed and suffers time dilation effects at every stop. It would be a massive undertaking to time every element to an actual or theoretical time frame and not end up with separate turns for every event in battle, production, research, etc. Not to mention some effects, like technology, are exponential anyway. No, what I see here is really nother cry for space carriers.