1.0.5 - It keeps running now
Two changes from your playtest feedback.
THE GAME NO LONGER STOPS WHEN YOU CLICK AWAY
Until now, clicking on another window froze everything - gathering, expeditions, research, the settlement - and that time was gone. It was not given back as offline progress when you came back. For an idle game that was exactly backwards. The game now keeps running in the background, so you can leave it going behind whatever else you are doing.
EXPEDITIONS ARE HALF AS LONG
The four trip lengths are now 30 seconds, 7.5 minutes, 30 minutes and 3 hours - down from 1 minute, 15 minutes, 1 hour and 6 hours. You told us the long trips left you sitting with nothing to do.
To be clear about what this does and does not change: a trip brings home an amount based on how long it was, so a half-length trip brings home half as much. Your resources per hour of expedition time are exactly what they were. Survivors found on expeditions and new areas to settle are still paced off your total expedition time, so they arrive at the same point on the clock as before - the longest trip now takes two runs instead of one to turn up a survivor, over the same six hours.
What you get is twice as many trips and twice as many chances to change your crew.