It's amazing all the ways you can mod this game but apparently you can't mod the game to display the turn count alongside or instead of the game date.

.... you know you can just hover over the "date" and see the turn number right?

You can not. UI Modding is not supported ATM.

Years would be best but months I suppose I could live with.

Is there any solution to this yet?

Perhaps. This is why some games of this scale just use turn numbers. They can stand for whatever you want. You'll never get a perfect balance, but for me having the entire game take place over a period of just a few years(as in under 10) is game breaking.

I pretend like a "standard galactic week" is a month long.  :shrug:

You know if we went back a few hundred years things went a lot slower. If we move forward things are going to go a lot faster civilization takes this into by starting out with a lot longer than 1 year turns. It baffles me why you wouldnt want galactic civilizations to take this into account. I just hover over a counter i never use for anything else. I dont understand why that bothers you.

The older we get the faster time moves.

I think the main complaint is knowing, game-wise, which turn it is.  Easier to manage citizen plans, without mouse-hovers.

 (edit) in other words, the "stardate" is flavor, and not very informative.

I think it`s about the life span of the average Human Being. Seems like months is a reasonable time frame. Weeks does seem way too short, even with the Tech. 5 years is way too long, at that rate you`d be changing generations in just a few turns which would make long term planning unrealistic since policy and politics would be constantly changing. People would be dropping dead after 17 turns.

When we`re talking alien lifespans which could arguably much longer then you have a point.

Another reason why game turns is good. No matter how you are picturing it in your mind, the generic turn lets you do it.

Wouldn't be hard to mod one in

Would make it a growth modifier (no change in actual birth rate, but fewer people dying of old age)

Still you could argue that life extension would have little to no effect in game terms, after all as life spans increase you might have people waiting longer to have children, or having fewer of them.

As for them putting in an actual date rather than a turn counter, I find it - annoying.

For a campaign I could see it, for sandbox  it detracts from the game.

It is a minor thing, really, and one I can deal with, but it is, to me, one of the most annoying things about the game (when playing sandbox) i.e. most of the time.

It used to be that you could toggle between date and turn but that option disappeared a while back.

The dates are meaningless to me and I want to see the turn numbers. And I don't want to have to hover over it to see the date, either. I consider that an annoyance.