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Offline Yeager

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« Reply #15 on: March 29, 2002, 09:04:28 AM »
Night sucks.

Wheres my P61?
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« Reply #16 on: March 29, 2002, 09:25:44 AM »
I don't disagree with that, Toad. As it is now we have to do night runs with day fighters (which is still fun). Most night engagements were nightfighter vs bombers, or nightfighters vs nightfighters (protecting the bombers)... they were not nighttime "furballs" as we have in here.

My main point is this: Be careful about making blanket, extreme statements like "Remove night completely" or "limit it until it's insignificant". This sim has many, many elements to it... there is something for everyone. If you start removing every little thing you don't like, you'll end up with Furball Island within a year, and nobody will like it. Options are a good thing. Don't limit them by thinking only about yourself. We all pay to participate in this game, we all log in and do the things we love to do.

Aces High has the potential to expand into a really amazing sim...it's great now! Let's not restrict it by having tunnelvision. You may get your way this time, but next time you may not be in the majority, and the thing that you love will get removed.

Something tells me that if HT didn't want the nighttime, it wouldn't be in the game.
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Re: request to remove night or make it happen only once every 24 hrs
« Reply #17 on: March 29, 2002, 09:50:14 AM »
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Originally posted by Citabria
...please make dusk,night, twilight only happen once every 24 hrs. thank you.


Dux,

Note that in my first post I merely said that I agree with Cit.

Nowhere (that I can find) in his first post or in my support of that post did either Cit or I say that night should be eliminated.

I didn't suggest "removing" night in my second explanatory post either. My view of night was merely repeated there, with a bit of explanation with respect to the current planeset. I usually either log or just chat with friends till the sun comes up and one can see to shoot. But that's just me.

I think his suggestion would allow "enough night" that it would not become "insignificant" and those that enjoy it would still have their opportunity to do so. That is my opinion, however.

There are many things in the game that are "limited" and these "limits" are sometimes adjusted by HTC either due to their own unilateral decisions or perhaps by player comment. Perk planes like the F4U-1C might be considered an example.

Check my sig... you like the night? Good on ya! Fly it, enjoy it.

I'm sure you'll allow me the same opportunity with respect to posting my views of night as a gameplay issue. No one talked about removing it....... just "adjusting the limit". I think you jumped to an unwarranted conclusion there, or perhaps I wasn't clear enough.
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« Reply #18 on: March 29, 2002, 09:57:45 AM »
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agree, my f/r drops significantly during night and dusk/dawn (Kyro II), which makes it more or less unplayable for me.  I wonder if others have the same problem?


Same problem, but it wasn't this severe with 1.08. Now I just log off if it's dusk or dawn.

I'm all for getting rid of night completely at this point.
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« Reply #19 on: March 29, 2002, 10:03:07 AM »
Toad, I owe you a clarification... only the first paragraph was aimed at you; the definition of historic nightfighting. I agree with that fully and did not mean to lump you in with the rest of it. Sorry about that.

As for the other part... right there in the title of the thread in bold type... " request to remove night..."... this is what is bothering me.

And I do believe fully that everyone has entitlement to their opinions, I'm just making sure that the "wants" don't get outshouted by the "don't wants".

Bottom line: I think there is room for everybody.
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« Reply #20 on: March 29, 2002, 10:35:16 AM »
Just in case we're voting or something, I like night, including dawn and dusk. Different strokes...
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« Reply #21 on: March 29, 2002, 10:55:38 AM »
Eliminate night completely!!!

End the darkness!!!

Night is for hosers!!!

Really scared pilots only fly at night!!!!

Night I rebuke thee!!!

Sorry Dux...couldn't resist:)

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« Reply #22 on: March 29, 2002, 11:05:06 AM »
Lol, Rude!

...and you're right... I am a hoser.

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« Reply #23 on: March 29, 2002, 11:27:33 AM »
I agree on the Orange. Gawd it HURTS to fly in that.


Solution:

5 minutes of orange as sun goes up -> 2 hours of daylight -> 5 minutes of orange -> 2 hours of night.

AND SYNCRONIZE the MA and CT so that when its day in the MA, its night in the CT, and when its night in MA, its day in CT.

That way those that cant stand the night in the MA can switch to CT for the 2 hours and viceversa. It would also make way for the introduction of night fighter, night bomber raids, night GV actions, etc.

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« Reply #24 on: March 29, 2002, 11:30:43 AM »
I like the night, it is one of the things that sets AH apart from other sim games.

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« Reply #25 on: March 29, 2002, 11:39:44 AM »
If you don't like flying at night, why not try something else for a change?  Take a PT boat or a vehicle out, or man a ship or field ack gun.  I often barely notice the passing of the night, as I'm usually too busy having fun in an Osty - great under cover of darkness....  :)
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« Reply #26 on: March 29, 2002, 11:44:21 AM »
Mark me for loving nighttime.  Maybe less frequently, every 8 hours? Same transition.

I like challenging environments, give me any environment, I'll adapt.  

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« Reply #27 on: March 29, 2002, 12:14:18 PM »
YOYOYO Rip. Nice car :-) but u should bring it over to germany to enjoy it on the "Autobahn".
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« Reply #28 on: March 29, 2002, 12:15:37 PM »
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I don't disagree with that, Toad. As it is now we have to do night runs with day fighters (which is still fun). Most night engagements were nightfighter vs bombers, or nightfighters vs nightfighters (protecting the bombers)... they were not nighttime "furballs" as we have in here.


Did those kind of furballs exist in real life during day time?!

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« Reply #29 on: March 29, 2002, 12:43:51 PM »
OK OK....so instead of getting rid of night....how bout installing a nightlight like my little one has in his room so the Boogey Man doesn't gettem!

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