solrac137 wrote:

Soo while i was playing as the riftborn something came to mymind, how much time is a turn ? does a turn represent a year ( like in ES1) or less time ? like a month? or even more like a decade or a century?  when im doing the craver questline ( spoiler) and i "clean an entire arm of the Galaxy" does this means the entire arm with all the planet bearing planets on it over a period of years/decades or just a few dozens of worlds over the span of one decade or so ? When i stop time in an enemy system with the riftborn does this means that all of the people in that system are in stasis for years or even decades or just a few weeks? 

I'm not sure how long a turn is... I assume it's close to a year, maybe.

Also the Riftborn don't actually stop time, they just accelerate or slow it down.

They actually can stop time. It is their final tech for their affinity.

UndeadPuppy wrote:

solrac137 wrote:

Soo while i was playing as the riftborn something came to mymind, how much time is a turn ? does a turn represent a year ( like in ES1) or less time ? like a month? or even more like a decade or a century?  when im doing the craver questline ( spoiler) and i "clean an entire arm of the Galaxy" does this means the entire arm with all the planet bearing planets on it over a period of years/decades or just a few dozens of worlds over the span of one decade or so ? When i stop time in an enemy system with the riftborn does this means that all of the people in that system are in stasis for years or even decades or just a few weeks? 

I'm not sure how long a turn is... I assume it's close to a year, maybe.

Also the Riftborn don't actually stop time, they just accelerate or slow it down.

They can actually slow/stop/rewind/skip and accelerate time, i wonder if the singularities affect them too or if they affect fleet combat in any way. 

I don't believe 1 turn have a fixed time duration anymore. Depending on the context of events, quests and interactions, turn can last from few days and to few years. Turn is just a turn, it's not tied to lore in any way.

A turn is usually just a few minutes, depending on how fast you set everything up. =P

In terms of lore, I would suspect it's approximately one year, but bear in mind that what makes sense for some things (Scientific progress, population growth) doesn't make sense for other things (Building construction, battle length). Really, the "turn" is kind of a self-contained thing, not a direct metaphor for something else.

I usually though 1 turn is 1 week, like Galactic Civilization, then ES has terraform planet which can be done easily within 1-3 turn if your production is super high so i don't know.

I always thought that a turn was several years i mean the ships are moving thousands of light years and populations which probably represents billions of individuals are growing, techs are being discovered and implemented so it would make sense if a turn were i dont know 10 or 100 years. 

solrac137 wrote:

I always thought that a turn was several years i mean the ships are moving thousands of light years and populations which probably represents billions of individuals are growing, techs are being discovered and implemented so it would make sense if a turn were i dont know 10 or 100 years. 

But then Academy heroes and lore figures like the old human emperor wouldn't still be ticking after a couple of turns.

solrac137 wrote:

I always thought that a turn was several years i mean the ships are moving thousands of light years and populations which probably represents billions of individuals are growing, techs are being discovered and implemented so it would make sense if a turn were i dont know 10 or 100 years. 

On top of the issues with Heroes/figureheads listed below, that would also mean things like constructing buildings would take decades to millennia to occur, and after fighting eachother, ships would simply stand around for a decade, which seems improbable.

Like I said, the "real" answer is that the turns don't actually reference a logical period of time, they merely represent a vague enough span to allow for gameplay balance without being too vague that it feels completely off.

UndeadPuppy wrote:

solrac137 wrote:

I always thought that a turn was several years i mean the ships are moving thousands of light years and populations which probably represents billions of individuals are growing, techs are being discovered and implemented so it would make sense if a turn were i dont know 10 or 100 years. 

But then Academy heroes and lore figures like the old human emperor wouldn't still be ticking after a couple of turns.

You have a good point there you can fill a planet without having your faction leader dying of old age, Although this may make sense  for some of the factions the cravers probably live for a really long time based on their pacifist hero which was alive during the endless wars, the vodyani doesnt have fleshy bodies so they should be biologically inmortal same with the riftborn and the horatio probably live for lots of years with a good example being horatio prime who is a mezari which means that he is probably thousands of years old but, there are still the sophons/lumeris and humans which probably have limited lifespans so my theory falls apart :P. 

So the idea that a turn doesnt represent a precise frame of time makes the most sense.