LogFAQs > #940262973

It depends on the game. Something like having to wait for day/night in Pokemon can become extremely frustrating if your play window is limited. Like, if there's a pokemon who only comes out in the day but you're at work/traveling for almost the entire day you could end up struggling to get that mon simply because of the cycle. So I don't feel like real time is a good solution if there's important content timelocked. However in other games it's either largely meaningless or only has minor effects.

I feel like the best way to do it is have it operate on a 2-1 cycle (2 hours day, 1 hour night) with the ability to change between if there's some form of missable content.

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