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Title: Night Flying
Post by: jay1988 on May 10, 2004, 11:19:15 AM: Can anyone tell me why they disabled night flying. I remember having lots of fun flying in the night.
Title: Night Flying
Post by: Innominate on May 10, 2004, 11:22:43 AM: Because you are part of a tiny minority.
Title: Night Flying
Post by: SOB on May 10, 2004, 01:31:21 PM: I don't think there was any real reason behind it...at least no serious reason was given. However, while some logged out when night came, I've never known of anyone logging out of the MA because it was daytime. I do miss the night though.
Title: Night Flying
Post by: jay1988 on May 10, 2004, 02:48:18 PM: Please just 30 mins worth of night flying each day PLEASE!!!!!!!!!
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Post by: Zippatuh on May 10, 2004, 04:53:01 PM: Because it sucks?

That would be my guess anyway.
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Post by: Delirium on May 10, 2004, 05:38:32 PM: Night was pointless... icon range was unchanged (6k at night? lol) and with so many messing with gamma settings to see it was laughable.
Title: Night Flying
Post by: Glasses on May 10, 2004, 07:24:40 PM: Still flying at nighttime was chellenging when they used to have it last like 30 mins every couple of hours, you could still see people even with long range icons do a Kennedy and smack themselves into terra firma ...oh the memories <> :(
Title: Night Flying
Post by: Rolex on May 10, 2004, 08:07:30 PM: Just turn your gamma down. :)
Title: Night Flying
Post by: WilldCrd on May 10, 2004, 08:25:12 PM: bring back the night!! Still added different challenges even with gamma correction
Title: Night Flying
Post by: Waffle on May 10, 2004, 11:13:19 PM: 04-28-2004 09:58 PM

hitech
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View version 2.0 as the new foundation to build on the next 5 years like ah 1.0 was. There are lots of items built into the new engine that you don't see. We have done search lights, pixel shader fire and smoke, envirorment mapping. The frame work is in place for those items already. They will be comming in future version, but first 2.0 needs to be released ,solid and be able to run on older machines then we can go on to some cooler stuff for newer boards.

HiTech

Oh you anti-night goobers...you see that - search lights :)

No use running search lights during day..guess there will be NIGHT!
Title: Night Flying
Post by: Toad on May 10, 2004, 11:20:07 PM: nite suxxors. always did, always will
Title: Night Flying
Post by: Steve on May 11, 2004, 01:52:35 AM: What Toad said.
Title: Night Flying
Post by: SlapShot on May 11, 2004, 08:34:08 AM: "Oh you anti-night goobers...you see that - search lights

No use running search lights during day..guess there will be NIGHT!"

Presumably and hopefully to be used only in AH II : TOD. There is no use for night in the MA.
Title: Night Flying
Post by: mars01 on May 11, 2004, 09:39:09 AM: If Hitech adds night bombers and night fighters and night stuff maybe. All in all tho, night was a bigger waste of time than bases a sector or more apart.
Title: Night Flying
Post by: lazs2 on May 11, 2004, 09:54:10 AM: I don't understand why those who like night can't simply turn down the brightness on their monitor.

lazs
Title: Night Flying
Post by: vorticon on May 11, 2004, 10:21:49 AM: Quote
Originally posted by lazs2
I don't understand why those who like night can't simply turn down the brightness on their monitor.

lazs

because they obviously don't have the extreme uber intellect of you and didnt think of this marvelously ingenious plan :rolleyes:
Title: Night Flying
Post by: 68DevilM on May 11, 2004, 10:46:35 AM: i personally dont like the night time enviroment in ah but i do think it adds to the realism of the game, i mean come on now in ww2 the brits night bombed all the time
Title: Night Flying
Post by: Flossy on May 11, 2004, 12:02:08 PM: Bring back the night! :D
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Post by: CMC Airboss on May 11, 2004, 01:05:03 PM: A day without sunshine is like, well...., night! Lets bring it back.

MiG
Title: Night Flying
Post by: Ecliptik on May 11, 2004, 01:46:44 PM: Bring back night. The game in its current form is disciminatory against Vampires.
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Post by: A_Clown on May 11, 2004, 02:13:38 PM: Nite SUX

ALMOST as much as flying in a horde of lemmings
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Post by: lazs2 on May 11, 2004, 02:16:30 PM: vorticon.. I sense sarcasm? You don't like my idea?

lazs
Title: Night Flying
Post by: vorticon on May 11, 2004, 04:17:50 PM: Quote
Originally posted by lazs2
vorticon.. I sense sarcasm? You don't like my idea?

lazs

your spider senses work well...as for your idea well i figure that it makes as much sense as the night lovers telling you to just crank your gamma...
Title: Night Flying
Post by: 68DevilM on May 11, 2004, 04:28:18 PM: a little bit of night wouldnt hurt.

i vote yeah for like 30 minuetes a ah day of night
Title: Night Flying
Post by: jay1988 on May 11, 2004, 05:30:53 PM: Why should i turn my gamma up, I don't want to be at a disavantage. I want us all to have night so there would be no disavantage. Also AH you should turn down i con range wh it is night. All I ask for is 30 a day PLEASE!!!
Title: Night Flying
Post by: lazs2 on May 11, 2004, 05:37:49 PM: jay.. no.. if there were night you could turn your gamma up to make it day. if you did so you would have an advantage.. if you simply turned your brightness down during daytime you would have night with no advantage... turn it down enough and you wouldn't see icons at all.

vort... no... mine makes more sense than the ones who say turn the gamma up... not everyone has this capability. Everyone however has the abilityb to turn down the brightness or simply... turn off their monitor for extremely realistic night experiance.

lazs
Title: Night Flying
Post by: Citabria on May 11, 2004, 05:57:26 PM: i log out even when it is sunset.

I always logged out every time night was in the MA and if i logged into night i logged right back out.

pointless and it sucks to fly daylight fighters in low light and night.
Title: Night Flying
Post by: Glasses on May 11, 2004, 06:23:05 PM: Nightwhiners! (R)(TM) :p
Title: night
Post by: ZO2 on May 12, 2004, 06:52:29 AM: bring it back
Title: Re: night
Post by: Virage on May 12, 2004, 08:19:49 AM: Quote
Originally posted by ZO2
bring it back

*2
Title: Night Flying
Post by: Blammo on May 12, 2004, 09:21:15 AM: :aok Bring make some night :aok
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Post by: frank3 on May 12, 2004, 09:58:37 AM: (http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/68_1084373896_night.jpg)
Title: Night Flying
Post by: jay1988 on May 12, 2004, 11:03:38 AM: Well then you guys that don't like night you can turn your gamma up. Its fun tring to fly at night using your little lights in your cockpit. ALso Hi tech you should and landing lights and other light to the aircraft for AH1 and AH2
Title: Night Flying
Post by: SlapShot on May 12, 2004, 11:11:13 AM: Quote
Originally posted by jay1988
Well then you guys that don't like night you can turn your gamma up. Its fun tring to fly at night using your little lights in your cockpit. ALso Hi tech you should and landing lights and other light to the aircraft for AH1 and AH2

That is the reason why night is totally useless. Turning the gamma up eliminates the problems that are supposed to be inherent with night flying. So whats the use ?

Guages in AH I do not have lighting effects ... they are just real white.

Landing lights and other lighting at night could be implemented with AH II from what HiTech has allueded to. You will never see it implemented in AH I due to the fact that when AH II goes primetime, AH I goes on the shelf.

NIGHT SUCKS !!! ... at least in its current implementation.
Title: Night Flying
Post by: lasersailor184 on May 12, 2004, 11:19:02 AM: I loved night time.

Plus, with the new game, you can skin whatever you want. There are already a bunch of night skins being done. So there is no excuse for not having Night Fighters.
Title: Night Flying
Post by: Curval on May 12, 2004, 11:25:26 AM: Quote
Originally posted by lasersailor184
There are already a bunch of night skins being done. So there is no excuse for not having Night Fighters.

lol...dude, skins don't make a plane a night fighter.
Title: Night Flying
Post by: jodgi on May 12, 2004, 11:46:32 AM: Hitech said he wanted to put the whines on the other side of the fence, so can you night guys whine as well as the anti-night lobby?

In a world of gamma adjustment night has no point.

lasz does make a perfectly good point.
Title: Night Flying
Post by: frank3 on May 12, 2004, 12:01:24 PM: Night flying can be good fun, if you agree with everyone to keep your claws off the gamma settings.

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/68_1084381253_ahss5copy.jpg)
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/68_1084381240_ahss4copy.jpg)
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Post by: SOB on May 12, 2004, 04:19:25 PM: (http://www.matthoffman.us/dl/aradonight2.jpg)
Title: Night Flying
Post by: jay1988 on May 12, 2004, 05:52:38 PM: You can't tell me those pictures don't look nice
Title: Night Flying
Post by: mechanic on May 12, 2004, 09:54:26 PM: hi tech should create the night graphics so that when gamma is affected, the planes show and pink with flowers pianted on them for the fairies that play with gamma.

although i know nothing about programming so have doubts to it possibility:D

BRING BACK THE NIGHT IN AH1 TODAY, LET ALONE AH2 :aok

EDIT: search lights in AH2? Thats the best feature ive heard of. what is ground tracer fire if not for night time. think of the screens shots and films! time to buy a new PC video card!
Sweet.:)
Title: Night Flying
Post by: DipStick on May 13, 2004, 03:58:14 AM: AHI night sucks, always did. Will wait to see the finished AHII night before commenting on it... Altho I'm guessing it could still be gamed by the gamma adjusters so it's like 'what's the point?' ...
Title: Night Flying
Post by: jetb123 on May 14, 2004, 10:06:10 AM: I love the night:cool:
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Post by: frank3 on May 14, 2004, 10:09:22 AM: I bet people love you better in the night too :)
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Post by: frank3 on May 14, 2004, 10:11:21 AM: War is hell :rolleyes:
Title: Night Flying
Post by: jay1988 on May 14, 2004, 11:23:12 AM: I think someone should have a online poll to see if we should get night flying back.
Title: Night Flying
Post by: SlapShot on May 14, 2004, 11:40:02 AM: Quote
Originally posted by jay1988
I think someone should have a online poll to see if we should get night flying back.

That has/had already been suggested when we tried to get rid of "night". It ain't gonna happen.

It's gone in AH I ... live with it. The game is far more enjoyable without it, than with it.

Only time will tell to see what is in store for us in AH II. If we eventually get real "night" fighters in AH II along with the landing lights, runway lights, search lights, etc ... then bring it back.

Even with that, the "gamma" gamers will always use their gamma to give them the edge at night.
Title: Night Flying
Post by: Morpheus on May 15, 2004, 08:38:12 AM: I would say bring night back only if we had some added "eye candy" I guess would be what you'd call it. Things like Slapshot said, search lights, runway lights and things to that nature. Lights on the CV's even.... Anything to break up the monotony of near complete blackness with a HUGE white dot called a moon.

The vast majority of the MA players hated Night with a passion. Its gone, its dead, and its a dead issue. I dont understand why we are even talking about bringing it back when AH1 will be dead and gone shortly.