The right idea is to make night look like day and then hunt for people who don't cheat?
No, the right adea is to set up your monitor correctly. Then you dont have to turn up the gamma, or cheat. AND you get an all around better picture for just about everything else.
THATS what people arent getting. If you couldnt see at night. Your monitor wasnt set up correctly to begin with. If it was. You wouldnt have to turn night into day by turning up gamma.
Prior to doing a proper calibration. I myself thought that my monitor was set up fine. Everything seemed to look fine to me so I never really questioned it.
And yes night time in game was really dark
Then I stumbled across a monitor calibration utility and on a whim decided to give it a shot figuring at worst if I didnt like it I could always turn it back the way it was before. And I was astounded by how much better everything looked. Not just in game but with just about everything else as well.
Again. on a properly calibrated monitor. Night should look no darker then a bright harvest moon without making any changes to your gamma. The distances at which you normally fight you should be able to see and fight, just fine. If anything the icons should be easier to see and mostly the coloring on the planes themselves that are effected. Its at larger distances at the end of icon ranges is where you loose any real visibility.
And still. The entire thing only lasted around 15 min. And even then only every so often. If 15 min is a deal breaker for people then they have larger issues they need to deal with.
I've seen and see entire sections of maps closed down for longer then that. I've been on flights to fights that have lasted that long. Seen people sitting in a tower waiting for hangars to reup that long.
Aside from the fact that some people might actually be wro,wro wro wrong about how well their monitor is set up
Thats what makes the entire whine against night so pathetically silly. It was only somethng that some people had to deal with for 15 minutes.
In the end it doesnt matter cause those that did the Rumpelstiltskin routine got what they tempertantrumed for.
As my father in law used to say .
"you win. pick up the marbles"
