HT Please give us back the Night and Tank Town.

[Flayed1]

I liked night time. I would up my black JU88's and go bomb some terget or other while the nme was trying to figure out what was hapening.
  But if you won't bring night back atleast bring back the clouds. It's great to pop in and out of the clouds on furball island with my B26's.

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by AWMac
Both of these things are missed by most.  Even the lil towns that we would fight over like on Festers map.  

Originally posted by whels
Nite time was waste of time  and programming. most didnt like it
and gamed it with gama changes to make it day time, or simply logged off for an hour.

thought I settled this already
Most,
 there IS NO MOST
Everyone stop making claims of "most".

because "most" of the time its a false statement
"Many" is more accurate

Many people enjoyed night, many people hated night, many people didnt care one way or the other.

and just for the record "MOST" people did NOT log off during night. Some did yes but not MOST.
I've never seen more then half the arena leave for any other reason then a mass boot.

And I've never seen MOST people complain or be pro on anything.
What I have seen is the same people saying the same things both pro and con, over and over and over and over again which makes it seem like there are far more then there are.

so everyone STOP WITH THE "MOST"!

Sorry for the rant.
Just a peeve of mine

You may now return to your irregularly schedualed programming

[whels]

Originally posted by DREDIOCK
thought I settled this already
Most,
 there IS NO MOST
Everyone stop making claims of "most".

because "most" of the time its a false statement
"Many" is more accurate

Many people enjoyed night, many people hated night, many people didnt care one way or the other.

and just for the record "MOST" people did NOT log off during night. Some did yes but not MOST.
I've never seen more then half the arena leave for any other reason then a mass boot.

And I've never seen MOST people complain or be pro on anything.
What I have seen is the same people saying the same things both pro and con, over and over and over and over again which makes it seem like there are far more then there are.

so everyone STOP WITH THE "MOST"!

Sorry for the rant.
Just a peeve of mine

You may now return to your irregularly schedualed programming

MOST  

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by whels
MOST  

ahhhhhhhh

[Kweassa]

But it's true.

 Most people did hate night.

 It's like electricity Dredidock. You can't "see" electricity, but you don't have to see it to know that electricity exists.

 You don't have to count MA numbers or take polls to know that night time sucks.

 It hampers with normal operations in everyway. The night time operations is hardly a regular alternative because there's no such thing as a real "night" in AH. People just crank up their gamma and go looking for dar dots and icons. There's no merit to night except it makes fights frustrating due to lack of visibility.

 Nothing changes at night.

 So, if you guys want night, just wear real dark sunglasses while playing AH. That's basically the same thing as flying AH "nights", while others crank up gamma and brightness - the only blind guy around when everyone else is using night vision goggles.

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Kweassa
But it's true.

 Most people did hate night.

 It's like electricity Dredidock. You can't "see" electricity, but you don't have to see it to know that electricity exists.

 You don't have to count MA numbers or take polls to know that night time sucks.

 It hampers with normal operations in everyway. The night time operations is hardly a regular alternative because there's no such thing as a real "night" in AH. People just crank up their gamma and go looking for dar dots and icons. There's no merit to night except it makes fights frustrating due to lack of visibility.

 Nothing changes at night.

 So, if you guys want night, just wear real dark sunglasses while playing AH. That's basically the same thing as flying AH "nights", while others crank up gamma and brightness - the only blind guy around when everyone else is using night vision goggles.

Bunk,
 
I've actually paid attention to the complaints moans and groans  in the game of the people that play over night time (even had the numbers written down somewhere for a while for just this arguement)
And while I dont remember the exact number off hand.
 The only ones I've seen complain about it in the game consist of MAYBE the same 20-30 people incessantly complaining about it over and over and over again.
Same thing with the people arguing for night the same ones arguing back and forth.

What your talking about it a matter of opinion if it sucks or not.
For you and many others it does.
And for many others it doesnt.

In no way shape or form would I claim that either side had a majority.

I read fully most of your posts, and most of your thoughts and Ideas I agree with.

This isnt one of them

[scott123]

I think you'll find "I" is the missing word /letter,from most of these posts.

I would like night/weather/ Desert maps,and snowscapes...and clouds  good for  for goon pilots.

Oh and the only wind in aces high comes 180 degees and very hot straight off these bbs;)

[Flyboy]

NO to night time. its bad for gameplay and its unhistorical

[Raider179]

night for 30 mins...nothing long just something to mix things up a little bit.

People that speak for the "most" or whatever really shouldnt.  I dont believe you can speak for the community.

Granted some complained but some loved it.

[CMC Airboss]

Originally posted by jpeg
to all you guys who want nighttime back:
How did you guys fly and fight in complete darkness? (without gamma adjusting)

I think this statement/question illustrates the views of the many people who dislike night: This is representative of the furball-centric pilot contingent.  I'll answer the question above in two parts.  First, it is very easy to fly at night if you can fly in the daytime.  There was no change to the flight model when the sky got dark (as far as I could tell).  Second, it is possible to "fight" in a tank, in bombers, and in attack aircraft at night.  I would go as far to say that night time makes these kinds of fighting even more effective.  I suspect that what you really want to know is how to dogfight in furballs at night.  That one is easy.  Stay above your target and their silhouette will always be visible against the ground.  Oh, and don't fight over water =)

All I remember is that full night time use to last about 20-25 mins and there use to be about a 75% player drop.

Data source? Dates?

MiG

[StarOfAfrica2]

Originally posted by Flyboy
NO to night time. its bad for gameplay and its unhistorical

Hehe  hehehehe  hehehehehe  


Night time is not historical?  It's been around a long time.  
I could go on with this quote for awhile, but seriously, how can you possibly say night time fighting is not historical?  As for "bad for gameplay", thats your opinion.  Plenty of folks enjoy it, and therefore it is GOOD for their gameplay.  I rather enjoy it myself, although at first I hated it, just because it was difficult.  Now that I'm a little more comfortable with the FM I enjoy the challenge and would welcome night time back.

[nsty1]

Best part i enjoyed about night time was trying to land my kills
and killing at night time i found was much easier,just aim below icon and @100 out,you can't miss  

[mechanic]

Originally posted by Raider179
Night Rocks! Try it offline it really looks fantastic. If people choose to just turn their gamma up and therby they dont have to deal with it well that sounds good to me. I just remembered some fun 110 NOE raids pre-dawn that were out of this world in terms of fun by the guys in the mission. SomeOne should post a pic off the night in offline. I would but dont know how

here you go:









anyone who says they couldnt fight in this, should give us a few good reasons why 'this' level of visibility is not acceptable.

[lasersailor184]

It's gotten to the point where I don't care if some skill lacking dweebs want to turn up their gamma to get off at night.  I want to fly in the night.

[thrila]

mechanic those screenies are exactly why i don't like night.  I can't see a sodding thing- all i see is tracers.  I don't know how bright other peoples monitors are but all i see is black with some tracers and the moon.  I don't know how night is for others, but for me i can't see anything.  I cannot make out the sky from the floor.  The level of visibillity is none.

I don't get any enjoyment from not being able to see anything to shoot at.