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Title: night time
Post by: Anaxogoras on July 30, 2008, 04:32:03 PM
I don't get it.  I can still see ok during night time by turning up the gamma, but then when it's daytime I adjust it down again.  What's the point?  Where's the simulation?  If we had no nighttime, what would we lose except turning the gamma up and down?  Save it for scenarios.
Title: Re: night time
Post by: angelsandair on July 30, 2008, 04:46:48 PM
This is a wish how? :huh  :confused:
Title: Re: night time
Post by: Anaxogoras on July 30, 2008, 05:50:22 PM
This is a wish how? :huh  :confused:

Ummm, let me spell it out:  No night in the arenas.
Title: Re: night time
Post by: evenhaim on July 30, 2008, 05:56:37 PM
what we have currently isnt night, its dusk, we had night a while back but then it vansihed... now it only comes on christmas
Title: Re: night time
Post by: NEARY on July 30, 2008, 09:12:45 PM
Ummm, let me spell it out:  No night in the arenas.
the night allows it to be realistic,and it keeps the sun from getting in your way
Title: Re: night time
Post by: Anaxogoras on July 30, 2008, 10:26:05 PM
the night allows it to be realistic

Begs the question.  What is realistic about "dusk" if everyone simply turns up their gamma to compensate?
Title: Re: night time
Post by: BaDkaRmA158Th on July 30, 2008, 11:19:52 PM
You do know it is the actions of HUNDREDS of morons, doing EXACTLY what you discribed that takes away from the SIMULATION you hold so dearly.
Here is a thought, leave your settings alone.



 :aok




Stop jackin' with your settings.  :furious





Title: Re: night time
Post by: Anaxogoras on July 30, 2008, 11:30:35 PM
 :rofl

Ok, I won't mess with my settings provided that everyone else agrees to do the same. :aok
Title: Re: night time
Post by: nirvana on July 31, 2008, 12:16:56 AM
"2 wrongs don't make a right"  Just play the game as the creators meant it to be played and don't adjust your settings.  But as always it's your $15 so do as you please.
Title: Re: night time
Post by: 100goon on July 31, 2008, 09:51:07 AM
yea we dont get a real "night" but it still gets pretty dark and thats a good time to luanch low light missions and personally i like it when it gets darker so turning up your gamma just ruins it. NO NO NO NO NO  :mad   :cry  :furious   :huh  :t   :devil  :pray NO!    NO!
Title: Re: night time
Post by: AirFlyer on July 31, 2008, 02:19:24 PM
"2 wrongs don't make a right"  Just play the game as the creators meant it to be played and don't adjust your settings.  But as always it's your $15 so do as you please.

Well spoken. :salute
Title: Re: night time
Post by: Krusty on July 31, 2008, 02:26:00 PM
Yes, and which squadrons launched their entire compliment of daytime fighters and daytime heavy bombers to go to the enemy fields in the middle of the night, bomb them, land at them, have troops run into them, capture them, all at night?



Hrm... none.

Night flying was NOT undertaken by most units. The rare exception is night-time bombing, but that's an entirely different OFFLINE type of simulation game, not this game.

No, night flying is NOT realistic. Not in this game. Nor was it very common (millions+ sorties in fair weather only, as compared to specialized night bomber missions and almost no bad weather missions and no daytime fighter sweeps in the middle of the night)
Title: Re: night time
Post by: BlauK on July 31, 2008, 02:33:35 PM
Dusk and dawn are so short that I have never bothered playing with gamma. Actually I never did it even when we had the real night time.

So here you have one to start counting for your "everyone else agreeing to do the same"  :aok

However, it won't really matter to me whether you continue to play with your gamma or not  :D
Title: Re: night time
Post by: trigger2 on July 31, 2008, 02:40:19 PM
No, night flying is NOT realistic. Not in this game.

I agree with you, unless we get some more nightfighters/bombers, I say it isn't practical.
And even so, I think it should be allowed maybe once a weekish. (different day per country, randomize it every week :))
Title: Re: night time
Post by: Seagoon on July 31, 2008, 03:00:55 PM
No, night flying is NOT realistic. Not in this game. Nor was it very common (millions+ sorties in fair weather only, as compared to specialized night bomber missions and almost no bad weather missions and no daytime fighter sweeps in the middle of the night)

Well to be fair, neither is perfect visibility and blue skies and bright sun with minimal cloud cover 24X7.

Even if we'd fought WW2 exclusively in the Caribbean you wouldn't have had such ideal circumstances. I'd love to get some occasional weather, unbroken cloud cover, even the occasional rain squall. Not to mention SNOW. Many other sims have successfully incorporated weather conditions, low light, etc. eventually with graphic upgrades, this sim will need them too. Also, you are discounting that certain ops took place almost exclusively at night - PT raids for instance.

Both Jeep/light armor and PT raids are currently suicidal - turn off the lights however.... Auto Ack is also a prob there, but we can talk about that in another thread.

Bright, sunny, and clear all the time needs to go.
Title: Re: night time
Post by: Saxman on July 31, 2008, 03:41:19 PM
Aleutians a couple months ago in FSO was a blast. :D Slipping through heavy fog and low cloud-cover to bomb ports.

We'd have some GREAT screenshots from the first frame, but the weather conditions didn't carry over into the film view.
Title: Re: night time
Post by: Anaxogoras on July 31, 2008, 03:48:38 PM
Well to be fair, neither is perfect visibility and blue skies and bright sun with minimal cloud cover 24X7.

Even if we'd fought WW2 exclusively in the Caribbean you wouldn't have had such ideal circumstances. I'd love to get some occasional weather, unbroken cloud cover, even the occasional rain squall. Not to mention SNOW. Many other sims have successfully incorporated weather conditions, low light, etc. eventually with graphic upgrades, this sim will need them too. Also, you are discounting that certain ops took place almost exclusively at night - PT raids for instance.

Both Jeep/light armor and PT raids are currently suicidal - turn off the lights however.... Auto Ack is also a prob there, but we can talk about that in another thread.

Bright, sunny, and clear all the time needs to go.

We have occasional weather in the ava arena.
Title: Re: night time
Post by: Krusty on July 31, 2008, 03:55:31 PM
Aleutians a couple months ago in FSO was a blast. :D Slipping through heavy fog and low cloud-cover to bomb ports.

That FSO took things too far. We couldn't get 2k from our squad members without losing them in fog. In this weather (in real life) such an attack would have been postponed until the skies were a bit clearer.

I'm not saying I wouldn't mind a cloud bank or two more than we currently have, but those handful of FSO scenarios and AvA setups were just absurd. Combat operations would not have taken place on a large scale in any of those conditions.
Title: Re: night time
Post by: Denholm on July 31, 2008, 04:12:14 PM
Wow, first we're wanting more by constantly asking for night. Now we're wanting less by asking for no night and less dawn/dusk time.
Title: Re: night time
Post by: TheMan on July 31, 2008, 04:14:43 PM
Begs the question.  What is realistic about "dusk" if everyone simply turns up their gamma to compensate?
Night time is what the game should have in every arena on the clocks. It happend and we should have it. It helps frame rates , gives something new to look at and adds to the realistic aspect of the game. We would also be sing more 110s and mossies and NOE raids coming out if there was night time. And as for the gamma , Hitech can take that out just as easily as they took out my most precious animated water. Then the whinners wouldnt beable to say people are turning there gammas up because there is no gamma .