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Maybe you can put your yearly reports into trimester or season reports. The ones that you have named can change that quickly. But if a trimester or season is too fast for the game that you have in mind. Stick with years.

How many years will your game take?

I agree with X3M's assessment that the "reports" are not realistic at all.

My version would be:

• Weekly is cool, basically "Each Turn".

• Bi-Weekly is okay, on "Every 2 Turns".

• Monthly is not bad, about "Every 5 Turns".

Yearly is just NOT REALISTIC. You need 48 to 60 turns before reaching 1 Year?!?! Do you see how that is not realistic?!?!

So on Turn #10, You get ALL THREE (3) "reports"... Which is INTERESTING.

But it's your game idea... Maybe you didn't do the math about HOW LONG a Year would be game-wise. 48 (4 turns/month) to 60 (5 turns/month) turns...

Note: If you want the "Yearly" report to happen ONCE (1) per game... maybe then it's logical. But I'm not getting the feel that that is the case... You can correct me if I am wrong.

Why? Because if you play FOUR (4) or more players, doing something "On each player's turn" is reasonable. After 4 (or more) turns, you do the Actions "Once per round" UNLESS it's the THIRD round.

If you think about the third round Actions, they would occur every 12 (or more) Turns.

Still realistic — because we broke everything into relative terms with regards to PLAYING the game.

That to me sounds much more realistic... But it may not work for you. Just some examination into the suggestion.

I understand your dilemma. How many players to this game? 4 or more?? The reason I ask this is because more than 4 players could make the intervals greater between turns and make a weekly basis seem longer.

Okay I have thought about it some more and here is my recommendation:

Each player's turn is a Month. During his turn, he does everything that is possible in a Month.

Next according to the Season, activities that change according to the climate happen quarterly (so every 3 Months).

Lastly as per your original idea, each Year (or every 12 Months).

And voila, a balanced game — much more reasonable and you can KEEP your original plan/ideas just by changing things a smidgen in order to make them more realistic.

So Monthly/Quarterly/Yearly...

Cheers!

I highly doubt that Experimental designs is going to sell this game design. In my group, we are going to sell this game design either. It’s something to occupy our time. Sure you can sell the idea on game sheets. But there are tons of game apps that already mimic this type of game. Our group and Experimental Designs are trying to bring it to the real world to see if it could or can work. And yes, it does. Just need some rules to play the game.

Oh and by players. It doesn’t matter how many players who can play a simulation game like this. The more the better. You can make a smaller game project this for family parties or at a friends party and see if you can keep it going. That’s the fun about these types of games.

Just putting our 10 cents in.

Team Dymino Monsters

To Experimental Designs:

Create your game, have fun with your project , design it how ever you like. Sounds fun to us.
Team Dymino Monsters

Sometimes, quirky homebrew games are the best.
One can learn a lot of them.
There is no pressure.
Nor commercial demands and limitations.

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I never said anything about "selling" his design. I was talking about REASONABLE "Play time". If you have 52 week per year, and the game is based on WEEKS (in that fashion)... It's going to take 52 turns before the YEAR "events" occur.

I doubt most games will ever last THAT many turns.

And even for a local, just for fun project... Are people going to sit around and play a game for over 4 hours or maybe more just to experience the yearly events...

The frequency of the events don't work... They don't hold right ... unless you are playing 1 game for 8 hours or maybe more.

I'm just saying "someone" should focus on the REALISM of the game. And to make certain that YEARLY events occur "sufficiently frequently" too.

I don't get where you're getting an angle about SELLING. I was talking in terms of LOGIC. What makes SENSE. Nothing to do with selling a design. But making something with reasonable play time and periods.

What kind of rock do you live under? Have you never played D&D Or Pathfinder?! Those games last for months! You don’t have to play the game in one sitting! If someone likes the game, they’ll play for however long it takes! You may be impatient, but others are not.

Oh! Also! I think the game is fine the way it is!

Have a nice day!

A game or storyline doesn’t have to be real to make sense. The mechanic of the game has to make sense. It can be whatever you want in a full time year. What if the month during game play is a full year? Or like the tv 24. Every episode is an hour of 24 hours.

You can use any measurement of time and use it in a game. Timers, clocks, dice, cards, rulers, sun dial, music of tones and chords etc. See what I mean.

Or you can take a turn in a game by phases or rounds at the first , mid or last part or having every player move all at once in a cinematic sequence.

If the "Yearly Events" as defined by OP need to occur... It seems like the importance of them (things like political climate, treasury and resource consumption/extraction) need to occur more frequently too.

Take for Political Climate, if there is no political influence until the 52nd turn, you can basically say that there is no political change during that period. This could make sense from a Presidential Perspective... The US changes Presidents every 4 years. So from a realism perspective ... it's even LONGER in terms of that kind of "Event".

But the House of Representative actively work on passing all kinds of laws and they do this on a "daily basis". So you would think that Politics have a larger role if you approach it from the Senate perspective.

So probably you would want a middle ground between both. Such that Political climate changes as laws are passed (game-wise I'm not 100% sure, this is just an exercise to fully understand the impact of "Yearly" Events).

I'm thinking 2% of the time, is not enough for "... treasury and resource consumption/extraction". I think coffer management would be required more often than once every 52 turns too. Again this is just my perspective in looking at what is being asked by the OP.

On the other hand, POPULATION seems like it could be something that falls in the "not too important" category (could be wrong too...) and that census is doing annually and falls maybe into that 2% timespan. But I could be wrong, I don't know the ramification of Population changes, which are probably in terms of GROWTH... Decline (because it's a game) may also be possible too. But that should be a CATEGORY thing: like city "x" grew by 100,000 people and earns +y% taxes on a monthly basis...

Just some ideas to throw around. Experimental can give us some more details which should clarify more how realistic the events are in truth...

Cheers!