Do it in the MA, the ones that hate the night can go enjoy another arena for a short while, like Mid War, Early War, WWI, or go hide under their bed and wait for the sun to come back out. The Hi-Tech team worked really hard on those arenas too, when was the last time you enjoyed them? Many people logged after santa left, BECAUSE IT WAS CHRISTMAS DAY, that was the only reason they were there. Many were probably pissing off family members just to see santa. You can not use that as an honest claim against having night time. Ohhhh here is a novel idea why don't we put up a vote. Like when they give us a new plane... or will you collectively elect the effing JU-52 3m, hold on to your seats... its 70 KTAS slower than the goon. (ok now I am rambling)
Guess what they call night in the real aviation world?... IFR (Instrument Flight Rules) Even I can't make this up. So yes you are going to have to rely on your instruments, just like a real pilot. Tweak your monitors, or just calibrate them in the first place. 99% of the daily use monitors I see are not even calibrated. (Just type calibrate in the start bar before this starts a help topic) Even though people work on them 6+ hours a day. Adjust the gamma on the clipboard, game the game, or whatever you do.
WWII day fighters did not fight at night is NOT an argument, that is just stating a redundant fact. Also, saying dog fighting did not happen at night is either dense, misinformed, or just outright lying to yourself and us. It happened frequently on the western front. Maybe the Vichy French did not have experience with it, but the Commonwealth, American, and Germans sure did. I guess Discovery Wings Channel never made it across the pond. Multiple interviews were aired on this channel about night fighting, and how scary it was. One I recall included a Mossie pilot finding his target by get this... the flames out of his adversary's exhaust and then twisting and turning the night away in the dark trying to shoot each other down, that sure sounds like dogfighting to me. This was done BEFORE the radar birds. There were times that missions ran late or started early and they had to deal with night, even pilots that did not have night ratings. The English were rationing petroleum like you would not believe, and one way they got bombers back that were late at night, was to torch tons of gasoline in ditches or rudimentary pipes lining the runway so the bombers could land. There were night fighter derivatives of the planes already existing in the game. The 110 has flame arrestors on it to prevent seeing the exhaust at night, in this game! The plane takes a 5-10 ktas hit just for that.
WWII fighters also did not have a magic clipboard with dots with friendlies on it. Night is fun... for a little bit, so let us have it.
Do people not know about the gamma adjustment on the clipboard? I use this as the sun changes during its cycle already, or if I go from fighters, to GV's. You should not have to adjust your monitor and its settings between the cycle of day and night, especially the night we had this Christmas. While your back there might as well degauss that CRT. I recall being over 12k on a bomb run no problem looking through the pipe.
<S> HACK
there is the right way, the wrong way, and then this groupthink cluster#U(%
P.S. I have had two different know better than me types, tell me I was going to get kicked out of the game for my handle, and the sensitive nature of hacking(verb) in Aces High. Just to clarify I am HACK the adjective being used as a noun. So please don't kick me out of the game, and let me keep my adjective as a noun name. In all my years here I have no firsthand knowledge of someone getting booted, just a rumor about a guy on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B10FhzJo7-Y with smoke and bombs, I believe the multiplayer free arena taken from us after this.
