Alendor

i play on the ohio servers, and they typically seem to drop down into the 20s when night comes rolling around. sometimes they go a little higher, but thats usually from a good number of people joining, realizing its night time, then leaving to find a new server. Connected then shortly disconnecting typically spams the server chat when its night time. yet during the day the server fills up and stays full at 50.

not a fan of how dark night is myself. it seems to encourage everyone to either stop playing, or use methods outside of the game to circumvent the darkness (ie turning up gamma). game design 101 basically says if those are happing, a poor design decision was made i definitly like that your are encouraged to use flares, flashlights and such. but hell, i live in the country and I can go outside with no moon and overcast and can see alot better than this games nightime.

i kinda liked the large amounts of zombies, made going into a town really tough. i found me and my friend would often sneak into town using a crossbow to kill only what we needed to kill. we would belly crawl around dozens of zombies just to make it into a supermarket looting the place in silence. of course we also don't want to announce to the whole area that we are at a village getting ready to loot it. helps to keep bandits from knowing where you are that expierience adds a level of fun, intensity, and suspense. as opposed to being able to cost effectivly just shoot every zombie in the village first making their numbers so you could just shoot everything before going in would kinda kill the fun of looting a town.