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I've been away from the forums for a bit, so maybe I missed it. But what's the word on the voting time shift? It's been what,3 weeks? Already our vote takes place more than a day later than the first one did. Are they still looking at this and working on a fix?

This is NOT a bug. The time is calculated as 168 hours since the last election. Those hours must be hours that the server is up and running. If the server is down for 3 hours on one day the time for the next election is pushed back that many hours?

Why?

Think about it this way. Let's say you're moving 20 people within the city 8 hours before the vote is supposed to take place. All 20 people redeed their houses and are, until they put the houses back down and re-declare residence, no longer citizens. Now, let's say the server is taken down before those 20 people place their houses again and suppose the server stays down for 10 hours. Do you want your city to shrink when the server comes back up or do you want those 8 hours to get people back online and their houses placed before the vote is counted?

The above is just an example of one of the many reasons why time doens't pass while the servers are down. There are others. The system is working as designed.

another point worth mentioning is that thanks to "time stopping" while servers are down you are also not charged power or maintenance on structures like harvesters, i for one am pretty thankful for that .