Accelerate Discovery Time Flow

[aerelm]

I've never been a fan of the 1:1 thing, but it makes sense from a gameplay perspective and I don't think that should be changed. It'd be too much of a hassle keeping track of InRP dates for ongoing roleplays, so a 2:1 would just end up inconvenience everyone all the time, just for the sake of one or two big story drops a year.

Given the general flow of disco's story throughout different dev cycles, tying actual plot points to real time in any way has never served as anything but a hindrance. So imho the 1:1 should be kept for the sake of ongoing roleplay convenicence, and as for progressing the major plot points, it'd serve the mod much better if the story was taken in "chapters" instead, with the set up of each plot element taking place in game and in real time, then the pay off coming with the next "chapter" and with whatever time-jump is sensible.

To use a recent example: If there was a 10 year jump in the ingame date after end of Gallic war, the now-recovering Bretonia and also the drastic shift with Gallia's internal politics would've been far less jarring (and could've potentially been set up in a more interesting way too), but because of the 1:1 time, overnight Gallia goes from this monstrosity that's swallowing half of Sirius, to just a bunch of outcasts who're lurking in Gallia-Bretonia borders causing no more trouble than Mollys.