Bring on the night

[Tinkles]

HTC has perfected nighttime IMO

Not only didnt I have any problems fighting and flying at night. but I found targets easier to target and had a very noticable boost in framerate. Even in a large furball. No stutters, no lag. The game ran smooth as silk.

And no I didnt have to boost gamma

Same here, and I even got to land a few kills   


I wouldn't mind having night 'more often'. You get to see the little things more. Like the cockpit lights (didn't even know there were any!), the plane explosions/tracer fire was vibrant and colorful. But for me the best experience was being able to actually participate in a furball of over 40 people, at once.  That was my 'gift' from 'santa'

If HTC is willing, I wouldn't mind seeing 15 mins worth of 'nighttime' every 2 hours or so.

Just my opinion.

 

[Bizman]

Due to spending Christmas Eve with my family I missed the night again. But I do remember the fun of night missions from the days of AH1. And the films and pictures look great! Now, if the night really has been improved to the "harvest moon" lighting, I'd be glad to see it every few hours, lasting long enough for one dusk till dawn mission. As has been proved, the night system already exists with the inclusive sunsets and risings, so adding it to the game shouldn't be a big issue to HiTech.  Or then it might be, I've got no experience in coading. Maybe some Cragganmore would help to make him give us some dark times?

[vHACKv]

Maybe not on every MA map, but how about 8 hour day /night cycles with 2 hour nights?  Making 3 day / night cycles a day. A possible solution for the players who do not want the night would be 3.0k or shorter icon range at night. Plenty of combat happened at night during WWII. Some planes in the game modeling take a speed hit for flame arresters on the exhaust don't they? (Flame arrestors were to disguise exhaust at night) Plus we would probably see more night skins for planes.

<S> HACK

[SirNuke]

-1 WW2 day fighters never fought at night.

[vHACKv]

WWII day fighters did not have icons telling them the difference between friendly and enemy... with ranges. I just read an interview with Hartmann, where he claims to have provoked Russian P39's to fight American P-51's and P-47's by confusing them. He claims to have done this on separate occasions by being with only one wingman, and making a quick slash attack through both groups and diving for the deck.

<S> HACK   

[SirNuke]

WWII day fighters did not have icons telling them the difference between friendly and enemy... with ranges. I just read an interview with Hartmann, where he claims to have provoked Russian P39's to fight American P-51's and P-47's by confusing them. He claims to have done this on separate occasions by being with only one wingman, and making a quick slash attack through both groups and diving for the deck.

<S> HACK   

yes, and? WWII daylight fighters still didn't fight at night.

[Flossy]

I always loved the old rotation of day/night and would love to see it return.  Unfortunately I never get to see Santa as US Christmas Eve is middle of the night for me.  I'll have to try and stay up late one year. 

[Bizman]

Maybe not on every MA map, but how about 8 hour day /night cycles with 2 hour nights?  Making 3 day / night cycles a day. A possible solution for the players who do not want the night would be 3.0k or shorter icon range at night. Plenty of combat happened at night during WWII. Some planes in the game modeling take a speed hit for flame arresters on the exhaust don't they? (Flame arrestors were to disguise exhaust at night) Plus we would probably see more night skins for planes.

<S> HACK

How would you like the two hour night occurring on your primary playing time? For a working family man like myself and many others, the playing time is limited to a couple of hours at weekends in the evening between after dinner dishes and bedtime. Your 3x(6+2) hours cycle would mean that people in certain time zones would always have night during their prime time. Which three time zones would that be?

[Flossy]

How would you like the two hour night occurring on your primary playing time? For a working family man like myself and many others, the playing time is limited to a couple of hours at weekends in the evening between after dinner dishes and bedtime. Your 3x(6+2) hours cycle would mean that people in certain time zones would always have night during their prime time. Which three time zones would that be?

As far as I remember, the way it used to work was the night shifted by a couple of hours every day, making it fair for all time zones. 

[Bizman]

Yes, Flossy, it used to work. IIRC it didn't last for two hours, though. Do you remember how long it was dark back then? One hour? Half an hour? As I remember it, the night came very often when I was online, and back then I was online almost every evening between 9 and 11 PM UTC+2, on Fridays and Saturdays often an hour or two longer. Anyway, it had to be relatively short because it didn't make me mad if I noticed it being dusk at the time I logged in. I could afford to wait until dawn if there were no night time activities with the boys.

[edit] I suppose I found the answer: Based on this thread from 2000: http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,117.msg1657.html#msg1657 the night lasted 15 minutes every few hours. No wonder it felt fair for all time zones if they shifted that quarter of an hour every day.

[Max]

The night time periods of AH1 usually saw an increase in bombers as they were difficult to see and kill with manned ground guns and Osti's...no Wirbs back in the day.

Cranking up the gamma setting became the norm...for some anyway. Would be fun to have night time back but a lot of players logged off when it rolled around.

[Sunka]

-1 WW2 day fighters never fought at night.

So?
A lot of things happen in this GAME that never happend for real.

[guncrasher]

it's stupid to think that people were actually gonna play in the night.  on xmas people were complaining that they couldn't see and others were telling them to up their gamma.



if you want to play in the night just lower your gamma.



semp

[Sunka]

it's stupid to think that people were actually gonna play in the night.  on xmas people were complaining that they couldn't see and others were telling them to up their gamma.



if you want to play in the night just lower your gamma.



semp

Yea cause that's the same.You want to play in day just up your gamma.  


not semp

[Drano]

Night=beyond stupid.

 Want to play at night? Make your own custom arena and make it night 24/7 if you want. I can assure you it'll be mostly empty almost all of that time. There is not--repeat--NOT--a lot of people that are clammoring for this. I'm not just talking smack. I've been here a long while. This has all happened before. I was here then. It sucked. No--it really, really sucked. People left the night arenas in droves. Why? Because it sucked. I see nothing positive from giving people a reason to not play our game. It's not fun flying in the dark--you can't see. Upping your gamma isn't the answer. If you're upping your gamma to make it brighter--like day, duh--you're not really flying in the dark now are ye? If you claim you're not doing that and are still able to see "at night" then you're either lying or there's something really wrong with your graphics settings. Where I live the sky is pretty dark at night. Like--black dark.

I just gotta shake my head when this comes up every few months like it's never happened before. Get over it. It SUCKED! It's NOT a new idea. It SUCKED!

Seriously.