Fair enough - perspective is everything. Thanks for help clarifying Brooke. My comment of passive aggressive is not fair. Sorry mate.
Personally, I could really care less if it came or went. Makes for pretty sunsets and sunrises and it's super easy to fix.
I'd like to hear why Hitech has it turned on...so...bruh, why is it turned on?
You are a one of the good ones, Mr. Fork! No hard feelings here for me -- you and I both at heart want the same thing: for AH to do well, and we love the game. We are brothers in that!
I think it is on for several reasons:
1. It is realistic that a world has dawn/dusk as well as noon, morning, later in the day, etc.
2. Having different times of the day instead of it just being noon all the time adds variety.
3. Dawn/dusk is just for a short period (but that depends on how long you are playing -- it's not short if you are playing around a dawn/dusk cycle).
4. Some players do like dawn/dusk.
I've put dawn/dusk into scenarios from time to time. The difference, though, is that I don't put it in during fighting times. It's in there (if at all) at the very beginning when folks are climbing and travelling to a battle, and it will be gone by the time they get into fights, and at the end after the fights are done or to signify fighting time is ending, and they are travelling back to base.
The problem with it in the MA is that there aren't set times for battles. You log on, and you go fight. If your particular playing session is short, and dawn/dusk happens during it, a significant portion of your time is going to be in gloom. Also, I see significantly more people saying, "Ug. It's dawn/dusk again." instead of "Yay! It's dawn/dusk again!". Most people seem not to like it.
But, it's easy to do an in-game poll and find out more thoroughly. Do you want the dawn/dusk low-light period to be:
-- Same as it is now.
-- Shorter.
-- Eliminated.
If there is a clear winner, you can implement it easily.
I'd also (if it's not already this way -- it could very well already be this way) make it not sync up with the 24-hour day as suggested above.