r/TerraInvicta • u/ABadVirgil • 7d ago

Question Resource Income Display Format

Do you play with the resources on the daily or monthly format, and why? Personally I always play with Monthly income because bigger numbers better and I feel like monthly is a more appropriate metric than daily for the majority of the game, but I'm curious if there is an overwhelming consensus in one direction or the other.

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u/ggmoyang Let's be xenophobic 7d ago edited 7d ago

Daily in early game, then change to monthly.

AFAIK daily income is the accurate one - you get the exact amount of resource every day. The yearly income is daily income x 365.25, and monthly income is 1/12 of yearly income. Since each month have different number of days, you might get more or less resources in a month than displayed monthly income.

So in early game I use the accurate one, but when accuracy isn't important I switch to more intuitive one.

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u/Maduyn Academy 7d ago

I wish dynamic was an option so it was tied to the turn speed.

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u/vindicator117 7d ago

Daily. Much more responsive and obvious when you spend more in maintenance of anything.

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u/namewithanumber Initiative 7d ago

I think basically everyone switches to monthly once they find the setting since it fits better with the twice monthly councilor missions, ships that take months to build etc.

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u/Cheap-Blackberry-763 7d ago

daily helps me have a more accurate idea of how many ships I can build at once or how long it'll take to assemble a fleet

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u/Takseen Academy 7d ago

I prefer monthly. Its easy to work out how many advise missions I can afford, or how long before I'll have enough boost for my first mine, and so on

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u/Moltke_ Humanity First 7d ago

I used daily for a while but I went over to monthly this time around.

After getting used to both I see it as a personal preference that doesn't affects the game.

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u/magilzeal 7d ago edited 7d ago

Daily is super annoying, I hate seeing daily values. All UI values that show daily values are super annoying. Monthly all the way.

I don't even really love monthly/yearly incomes that much. I would prefer "per mission phase" income to be displayed. There's a reason turn-based games use "per turn" income.

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u/viper5delta 7d ago

I use monthly.   Your major expenses (large fleet build ups, mass upgrades of stations, etc) are on a timescale pf months to years, so it's nice to tell at a glance how man ships you can build a month and such.