Patch 1.9 Beta Available: HUGE Timing Changes! — Tyto Ecology Steam update #277490

Hello, all! After the pacing discussions that we've had with you all over the last couple months since the game launched, we decided we needed to speed things up. This is one of the most major changes we've done to the game, so we really wanted to put the beta out to our community to hear feedback before finalizing the new pacing. Here's the details on the 1.9 Beta updates: Take it Week by Week: Time in your biodome no longer pass a day at time but a week at a time instead. This change allows the game to move 7x faster than before, therefore reproduction happens much sooner as territories grow, split, and even die. Players may want to consider putting carnivores earlier in their ecosystems' development. Here are some variables that changed: Hunger starvation rates of all animals increased Some animals brood sizes were reduced Leaf points and Fruit points increased Players now receive coi...