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Offline Devil 505

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Re: No more in-game nights on Friday prime time.
« Reply #30 on: September 15, 2021, 09:57:42 PM »
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Re: No more in-game nights on Friday prime time.
« Reply #31 on: September 24, 2021, 08:58:52 PM »
10PM EST and pitch dark in the MA.

This is 2 of the last 3 weeks. Please make it stop.
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Re: No more in-game nights on Friday prime time.
« Reply #32 on: October 08, 2021, 09:05:28 PM »
10PM on a Friday, and the sun is down again in the MA...
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Re: No more in-game nights on Friday prime time.
« Reply #33 on: October 09, 2021, 11:31:15 AM »
Agreed..  dawn, dusk and night, even with reduced time,  are detrimental to gameplay with numbers not where they used to be.  It's pretty, and seeing the milkyway is awesome, but... and as others have said, I also generally log until there's better light.  I mean even with daytime lighting monitor vis is nowhere near mkII eyeballs in real life.

Hope at least dawn/dusk get lessened or removed.  :old:
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Re: No more in-game nights on Friday prime time.
« Reply #34 on: October 09, 2021, 11:39:28 AM »
Rather than logging, I played through the late afternoon/dusk/evening/night/dawn yesterday.  For me the most distracting time period is the low sun angles of late afternoon and early morning.   It doesn't make a lot of sense to me to by flying around in a single seat day-fighter in the middle of the night, though.  But I imagine there are some Lancaster bomber guys who relish it?

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Re: No more in-game nights on Friday prime time.
« Reply #35 on: October 09, 2021, 12:36:27 PM »
It would be better if icon range was reduced during lower light levels imo

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Re: No more in-game nights on Friday prime time.
« Reply #36 on: October 09, 2021, 04:12:43 PM »
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dawn, dusk and night, even with reduced time,  are detrimental to gameplay with numbers not where they used to be.

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Re: No more in-game nights on Friday prime time.
« Reply #37 on: October 15, 2021, 08:32:23 PM »
Midnight in game at 9PM in real life. This is getting ridiculous. 
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Re: No more in-game nights on Friday prime time.
« Reply #38 on: October 15, 2021, 09:45:30 PM »
Midnight in game at 9PM in real life. This is getting ridiculous.

Devil, I guess the only way is to show the #s before the night compared to during it. Maybe that would show that while "cool", it doesn't bring a positive aspect to the game in terms of people logged on.
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Re: No more in-game nights on Friday prime time.
« Reply #39 on: October 16, 2021, 12:41:41 AM »
I was there after FSO and it was 4:30 and about to get dark again. Naturally. The only time I fly in the MA. It's crazy. What is the model? Mercury?

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Re: No more in-game nights on Friday prime time.
« Reply #40 on: October 16, 2021, 08:02:02 AM »
Whats the idea about fighting in the dark anyway? Seems just another reason to log off, I dont see it as beneficial. Nobody seems to want it.

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Re: No more in-game nights on Friday prime time.
« Reply #41 on: October 18, 2021, 12:03:04 PM »
I say keep the dark, make it last 10 hours, and force everyone to run a 1.0 gamma

Also add in real weather so we can get a solid month of overcast fog and rain. Also the occasional hurricane for the CV groups!

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Re: No more in-game nights on Friday prime time.
« Reply #42 on: October 18, 2021, 01:42:36 PM »
Currently the game clock runs at about 2x real time (I *think*).  At some point after sundown, the game clock skips ahead, taking out a large chunk of nighttime hours.  We experience a little bit of real darkness (with full moonlight), and recognizing the effort Hitech went through to code actual stars patterns in correct locations that actually move with time, I'm OK with that.   There may be people who love night bombing raids or try to move GVs into position under cover of darkness.

But I think it might help if during game clock time 10am - 2pm, the game clock was slowed to 1x real time, to give us more actually daylight fighting time.


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Re: No more in-game nights on Friday prime time.
« Reply #43 on: October 19, 2021, 06:51:28 AM »
But I think it might help if during game clock time 10am - 2pm, the game clock was slowed to 1x real time, to give us more actually daylight fighting time.

I think this might be the answer

But during night change the icon range to half

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Re: No more in-game nights on Friday prime time.
« Reply #44 on: October 27, 2021, 01:57:50 AM »
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What do you kids do in RL when it gets dark?  🤣
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