I feel a little conflicted about the timers this far. In general, I'm very much "anti-timers", since I like to play slowly and meticously, without ever feeling that I have to rush and possibly miss some interesting stuff.
However, in this game I can honestly say that I haven't felt much timer-pressure, certainly nothing that has prevented me from exploring/adventuring in any way. If anything they have added a little bit of extra spice to "Kingdom Management" when my advisors have been busy and I have been forced to prioritize a Problem over an Opportunity.
I agree, there have been many times in the game when I just wished that the ordinary sheets with character-info, inventory, Linzi's Journal and the map would have one extra tab with "Kingdom-info".
Where you quickly and without loading could see all Opportunities & Problems in progress, get info on the results of your advisors efforts etc. etc. It wouldn't even need to be interactive, just function as a quick reminder of all that's going on and new stuff that you might be inclined to deal with.
For me, that alone would be a huge time-saver.
However, in this game I can honestly say that I haven't felt much timer-pressure, certainly nothing that has prevented me from exploring/adventuring in any way. If anything they have added a little bit of extra spice to "Kingdom Management" when my advisors have been busy and I have been forced to prioritize a Problem over an Opportunity.
There's no denying loading times are a pain - and they should have done something differently with the Kingdom Managment interface. That's my primary complaint with the game - that you have to actually load into the Throne room constantly to do stuff.
It's not really about the speed of loading data from disk, I don't think. It's more about data population and managment, I would guess.
I agree, there have been many times in the game when I just wished that the ordinary sheets with character-info, inventory, Linzi's Journal and the map would have one extra tab with "Kingdom-info".
Where you quickly and without loading could see all Opportunities & Problems in progress, get info on the results of your advisors efforts etc. etc. It wouldn't even need to be interactive, just function as a quick reminder of all that's going on and new stuff that you might be inclined to deal with.
For me, that alone would be a huge time-saver.
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