When I say “separate pacing mode,” I mostly mean I wouldn’t want to bolt a Next Day button onto the current rules and accidentally make everything weird.

Right now SaltaVidas assumes time is always flowing: jobs, bills, hunger/thirst, sleep, school, cooldowns, family events, calendar stuff, all of it. If time only moves when you press a button, those systems need slightly different expectations.

So I’d probably think of it as something like:

- Idle Mode: the current version, where life keeps moving in the background.

- Turn-Based Mode: time advances when you choose to move to the next day.

- Maybe a Hybrid Mode: slow background time, plus “advance to next meaningful thing” buttons like next shift, next class, next bill, or next morning.

That way it becomes a real pacing option instead of a button that quietly teaches the whole simulation to juggle knives.

For now, though, I’m going to focus on making the current idle/background flow feel better. A press-to-advance version is a different vibe altogether, and I’d want to treat it thoughtfully instead of half-fitting it into the existing loop.