Time in career mode

[splashboom]

Is there a point to doing things faster (in less years) in career mode? For interplanetary missions you cannot really work around waiting for transfer windows so that is a big time sink. Careful advance planning for all missions could help, but gives me headaches, and I want to know if it the game cares how much time you use. Of course I may treat it as a challenge - colonize the whole system in X years - but not interested at the moment.

Thanks!

[Scarecrow71]

Time has almost no real bearing on the game other than for transfer windows and time to travel somewhere.  Not that I've found, anyhow.  I know some people want to conserve as much time as possible, but I think that's just a personal thing.

[king of nowhere]

you lose a bit of reputation over time, so if you stay idle 20 years your reputation will sink. other than that, i know of no other ill effect

[OhioBob]

Contacts require completion by a certain deadline.  So just be aware of that and not let the time expire without completion or you'll take a hit in lost funds and reputation.
 

Edited November 15, 2021 by OhioBob