Vote Request on Melee Arena Being Daytime Only

[Chalenge]

You don't need to do this gamma thing at all. I don't care if you do, but this night stuff makes you a more competent flier. You still have a neon guide to the enemy. The only thing about night is the pause-and-play issue, which no doubt will get sorted out.

[FLOOB]

Because a lot of players just up the gamma levels and turn night into day so they can see.  Just like players did when we used to have night times a long time ago.

I don't adjust the gamma and as you can see from the screenshot I can see fine.

[mbailey]

The Milky Way looks awesome, nice touch 

[Randy1]

I like the change when it happens.  Hard to believe people log off for a few minutes of lighting change.  Windows has a decent gamma setting calibration.

[redcatcherb412]

Because a lot of players just up the gamma levels and turn night into day so they can see.  Just like players did when we used to have night times a long time ago.

yep, options/graphics/gamma to 2.0 or 3.0  and everyone gets a free starlight scope.

[SPKmes]

I don't mind night and dusk/sunrise ... I do find the insta change in lighting a bit off putting though...trying to smooth that out would be nice...but otherwise...I like it

[Ack-Ack]

Windows has a decent gamma setting calibration.

Upping the gamma levels to see in the dark pretty much defeats the purpose of having a night time phase.

[FLOOB]

But you can see everything with gamma 1.0, so why diddlyup your gamma settings? Unless your contrast settings are already diddlyedup I don't see any need to mess up your gamma.

This is what I don't get, myself and probably most players can see fine at night with default gamma settings. Why doesn't everyone?

[guncrasher]

But you can see everything with gamma 1.0, so why diddlyup your gamma settings? Unless your contrast settings are already diddlyedup I don't see any need to mess up your gamma.

This is what I don't get, myself and probably most players can see fine at night with default gamma settings. Why doesn't everyone?

you mean the night changed from years ago when most players would logoff due to not be able to see at night unless they changed their gamma?

if you can see as good during the night as during the day, then why have the night at all?

semp

[JimmyC]

Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul

Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free

They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now

Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue

Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free

They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now

For they could not love you
But still your love was true
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night

You took your life, as lovers often do
But I could've told you Vincent
This world was never meant for
One as beautiful as you

Starry, starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frame-less heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget

Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free

They would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will

[FLOOB]

you mean the night changed from years ago when most players would logoff due to not be able to see at night unless they changed their gamma?

if you can see as good during the night as during the day, then why have the night at all?

semp

Well firstly I don't ever remember more than half of the arena logging out at dusk but I may wrong. As far as I can tell it hasn't changed, It looks the same to me. And I didn't understand why people were complaining back then either. But then again those were some of the same people who claimed that shades of brown cause them pain.

Look, the proof is in the screenshot I posted, you can clearly see that all objects are illuminated and easily visible. And that is with default gamma settings.

So I again ask, why are people saying that they can't see when it's dark in the ma? Is it their video cards, is it their monitor settings, is it their eyes?

It's like the blue/black/white/gold dress all over again.

[FLOOB]

Some of you guys might remember this, back in the day in EQ they had the same problem with players complaining about visibility at night and adjusting their gamma etc. So EQ was patched so that upon game startup the EQ program would adjust the players display settings to normal, and then when the game was closed it would reset the dispay settings to the diddlyedup way that the player had it before. This system seemed to work pretty well and for the most part players stopped complaining about darkness.

[Kanth]

<3

Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul

Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free

They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now

Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue

Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free

They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now

For they could not love you
But still your love was true
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night

You took your life, as lovers often do
But I could've told you Vincent
This world was never meant for
One as beautiful as you

Starry, starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frame-less heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget

Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free

They would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will

[Dawger]

I hates the muddy night

[caldera]

The dawn and dusk times are more of a problem for me than night.   
I crank my gamma to 11 when it starts getting dark.   

+1 on scrapping the dark.  Leave it to events.