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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: brady on September 23, 2001, 06:57:00 PM
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Night looks great on my system, the best part of night is the Dark perioud, how about making it last 10 minutes longer(at the darkest point).
Also Could the frequency of the storm fronts could be picked up a bit. I rember quiet some time ago when on lake uterious a storm front went over the high base in the North and the clouds were like patches of fog near the ground it was great fun dasing in and out of theam and engaging unsespecting enemy's :)
In other words more eye candy please...
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no night in ma until we have night equipped aircraft
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I have to agree. Night is nice, sure. But there is really no point to it without the nightfighters and the need to use them in the dark.
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and what nightfighter had what day fighter hadnt ?
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Radar for example :)
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As far as I'm concerned, night is just eyecandy in the MA that is 'unrealistic' (as if anything were realistic in the MA), 'unnecessary', and 'unfun'.
But I like the weather (except for the frustrating way it changes the icon color that makes it hard to tell friendly and enemy apart).
anRky
[ 09-24-2001: Message edited by: AN ]
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Originally posted by AN:
(except for the frustrating way it changes the icon color that makes it hard to tell friendly and enemy apart).
Change your icon colors. Use brighter colors that stand out more from each other in the night.
-SW
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SW, I am *constantly* changing my icon colors.
When it's full day, I have friendly white, enemy bright yellow/green. This provides the only real good icon readability for me.
When the clouds come over, I can't see white, so I darken friendly to blue if I'm over all land, something inbetween if there's too much water around. Enemy is also hard to see, and I have to play with that color, too.
Around sunrise/sunset, I can't see enemy, so I start playing around with that color. And the friendly white fades to the same color as the sky, too.
At night, I go back to daytime colors, since I can't see the darker colors I need for dusk. But since that lasts only an instant, I have to switch back for dawn. (actually, I've usually logged by this time.)
But the real problem is under cloud cover and sunrise/sunset. Then, it doesn't show the colors I choose, it fades them in a weird way so they look almost identical, unless I change them to vastly different colors. In this situation, though, I can almost be assured not to see one or the other against different backgrounds.
Also when cloud cover is over, I can barely see the radar bars with daylight colors, and most other colors.
I have yet to find good colors to use for anything but full daylight with no clouds.
My eyes suck :(
anRky
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night sux i log everytime i see the sun begin to slip............
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I love it. I feel quite at home in it.
xBAT
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I love the night in this game, it surprised the hell outa me when i saw it (since the other sims i've flown dont have a real night)
I dont mind the night as long as there is some moon light
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Night = time to log. :(
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Originally posted by funkedup:
Night = time to log. :(
Night = time for buff.
But when I am not in a mood for buff...
Night = time to log.
Night is a nice eye candy, all those stars and sunsets... But it impact gameplay for fighters terribly. Seems it is the only thing where HTC sucrifised a gameplay issues to eye candy one.
I know why it is. Because HT is very proud of nights he made
:p
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Nighttime requires the following changes:
A. a more realistic night view. Nighttime isn't simply darker than daytime. Since we should be staring at monitors in a well-lit room, nighttime has to reflect the effects on the eye that darkness causes. At a minimum that would mean much less color saturation, and a graininess (a sort of sepia-effect). Right now we've got just a darker terrain. This is the worst of all cases because some video cards (like my old one) let the user manually adjust (read: boost through the roof) gamma to make the scene appear as light as day, while others (like my current one) won't let you override software settings. So at nighttime, you have some people with perfect night vision, and others feeling around in the dark, and it's hardware-related.
B. Simulated Night-Flying conditions. Onboard radar for those equipped (and not the ridiculous AWACS/JSTARS vert. situation display we have now either), lights (on planes, on panels, on runways); you'd also get some flames from the exhaust stacks, depending on A/C type and night concealment systems.
C. Night fighters
D. A reasonable nighttime icon system. If it's blacker than a bull's tuckus on a moonless texas night, why can I pick up a neon red icon from 6000 feet away?
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bah i hate the weather!!! slows my frame rate down to 9!!! there must be some other way of makeing weather....
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Nights are great, I think we should leave them the way it is.
It is like , take them away, and you get much more whining.
Make them longer you get just as much whining.
I feel the nights are pretty well simulated ;)
The storm front is nice too, only thing I dislike with the clouds\stormfront are when I fly into the clouds I get this realistic feeling that I am entering real clouds, then "pof" I feel I am inside a grey cube, It does not feel right somehow.
Just my 0.2$ :)
The 332 "VIKING" Squadron
(http://www.lasse.as/332.bmp)
Lasse
[ 09-24-2001: Message edited by: lasse ]
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I'd like more weather.... especially SNOW!!! or DESERTS! :) Bring them on! :)
Regards
Nexx
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Like the night as is, any longer and it will be loggin time.
Weather, i like the weather fronts we have now, but I don't think more of those are neccessary. I'd like to see more varied types of weather, with differing cloud formations etc.
The spotty clouds(in game) look kinda errm not great. We seem to have 2 extremes, all or nothing. Some stuff in between would be good.
SKurj
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If we have to have a night then at least make it at sometime between 10pm and 6am eastern so at least it's dark outside and we can at least see the screen. Trying to play during game night is impossible when the sun's out and I'm sure as hell not gonna black out my office so I can play. Dusk and dawn are pretty cool but the dead of night is just wasted time. It really pisses me off when I want to log on fer an hour or so and I cant play because it's night. If it's impossible for me to play because of this with any more regularity I'd just as soon cancel my account.
CRASH
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If it's blacker than a bull's tuckus on a moonless texas night
Hehe when I read that I imagined Harry Shearer imitating Keith Jackson.