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Title: Night in the MA
Post by: branch37 on August 09, 2009, 03:46:38 PM
I have been reading numerous threads about night in the main arenas with some saying we need it and some saying we have tried it before and it didnt work out and that HTC has said that it would never happen again.  Just out of curiosity does anyone know why it supposedly didnt work out?
Title: Re: Night in the MA
Post by: Blooz on August 09, 2009, 03:55:46 PM
At dusk most would log off.
Title: Re: Night in the MA
Post by: Die Hard on August 09, 2009, 03:55:58 PM
Because you can't see anything.
Title: Re: Night in the MA
Post by: OOZ662 on August 09, 2009, 03:56:10 PM
At dusk most would log off.

At dusk, most did log off.

Because you can't see anything.

Actually, you can. Which defeats the purpose. Though no more than disabling external skins and jumping in a tank.
Title: Re: Night in the MA
Post by: kvuo75 on August 10, 2009, 02:39:53 PM
yeah.. if you can just turn up gamma, and see perfectly fine, whats the point of night?

Title: Re: Night in the MA
Post by: phatzo on August 11, 2009, 01:48:25 AM
when you see the moon come up turn gamma down and "hey presto" it's night,
Title: Re: Night in the MA
Post by: usvi on August 11, 2009, 01:57:04 AM
Because you can't see anything.
(http://home2.owc.net/~mojow/civic/pics/expressions/CaptainObvious.jpg)
Title: Re: Night in the MA
Post by: WMLute on August 11, 2009, 03:42:58 AM
Because you can't see anything.

Not true.

in the arena settings there is ColorLightNight and if you move the sliders all to the right you get the appearance of night time but it is pretty much as clear as the day.

ran many a special event like that and most players loved it.
Title: Re: Night in the MA
Post by: Getback on August 11, 2009, 11:07:41 AM
Be awesome if they added radar carrying planes. I believe the f6 had radar late in the war and a version of the P38 (P61?)
Title: Re: Night in the MA
Post by: Nemisis on August 11, 2009, 12:11:18 PM
I agree, I turned night on it the ofline practice and you can see fine. Oh maby not quite so far but not disabilitatingly so.
Title: Re: Night in the MA
Post by: AWwrgwy on August 11, 2009, 10:13:14 PM
Be awesome if they added radar carrying planes. I believe the f6 had radar late in the war and a version of the P38 (P61?)

Radar range for a radar equipped aircraft is just about the same as vis. icon range we have now.  Turn off nme icons at night?


wrongway
Title: Re: Night in the MA
Post by: Nemisis on August 12, 2009, 12:22:12 PM
Make icons a neutral white untill half of the normal viz range, then it displays which country it's from.
Title: Re: Night in the MA
Post by: CAP1 on August 12, 2009, 02:44:48 PM
i've heard, and read i think, that there used to be nighttime in the arnenas.

what was the reason for stopping that?
Title: Re: Night in the MA
Post by: Krusty on August 12, 2009, 02:49:20 PM
Hitech himself came in and said "most of our sibscribers logged off, so night won't be coming back" to paraphrase, during one of the many MILLIONS of reiterations of this stupid request.
Title: Re: Night in the MA
Post by: CAP1 on August 12, 2009, 02:57:15 PM
Hitech himself came in and said "most of our sibscribers logged off, so night won't be coming back" to paraphrase, during one of the many MILLIONS of reiterations of this stupid request.

WELL......\

that about solves it then.

if people were logging out, and/or canceling due to this, then i'd get rid of it too.

Title: Re: Night in the MA
Post by: mike254 on August 12, 2009, 03:19:07 PM
Not true.

in the arena settings there is ColorLightNight and if you move the sliders all to the right you get the appearance of night time but it is pretty much as clear as the day.

ran many a special event like that and most players loved it.

For instance, Coral sea. Near the end it got dark, but I could see fine. It looked great. Was a lot of fun.
Title: Re: Night in the MA
Post by: texastc316 on August 12, 2009, 03:19:52 PM
Bring it back and get more whiners to leave. Cull the herd, er um horde
Title: Re: Night in the MA
Post by: 96Delta on August 12, 2009, 04:43:06 PM
Because you can't see anything.

Night as presented in World War II Online is very effective and
adds a new dimension of difficulty to aerial combat.  Not
too dark at all and no need to play around with your
monitor's gamma setting - it looks like a night lit by a full moon.
Plenty of light to see by.

I think that HiTech should revisit the night setting and perhaps
adopt an approach similar to WWIIOL and see how it "flies" ;)