Guys, this is alpha. Meaning this is for ALPHA testing. Not even beta testing/etc. I'm betting that a majority of people complaining that purchased this alpha have never alpha tested anything before. We are lucky it's working as good as it currently is. There might be reasons for the majority of servers to be run on whatever weird time zone it is. I can see not allowing servers to change the time zone to prevent people from server hopping from day to night. When I used to play the MOD, servers at night were the least populated servers. Making it easy for people willing to venture into the dark to get loot at those hard to reach places in the daylight. Then jump on a server that's day light and get busy hunting. Maybe the devs are going to be working on adding some more night time objects, like flares, glow sticks, or improved light sources soon. Those will need to be tested. If that's the case be happy there is even a day cycle at the moment. Again this is not even BETA yet. I feel Rocket made a BIG mistake by releasing this on steam, in ALPHA for the price he did. Usually alpha testing is with a small closed group of testers, not what we are seeing here with DayZ SA. People are going to want to just play the game and not do any real ALPHA testing. They are going to want to play the way they played the MOD and be grumpy that they can't play as they would like. Or noobz are going to bitch, whine, and complain because they can't play the game because it's dark when they play. Again it's ALPHA! If you don't like the way it is at current don't play, wait for the beta. You were warned things are not even close to being finished. I have alpha/beta tested quite a few games over the years. Did I bitch? No, I was play testing an alpha/beta game and lucky to have the chance to offer ideas/report bugs/etc. Complain is not one thing I did. Granted those alpha/betas I tested, I did not pay for. I knew what I was getting into before purchasing this alpha due to my previous experience testing alpha/betas. That said, I have yet to play in the daylight. However that has not detered me from playing the alpha. It would be nice if the servers ran timezone specific to the server location, they don't at the moment though. Maybe it has something to do with the current alpha state they want to resolve first. It might not be at that point yet? Maybe when it gets to beta? Who knows. I'm CST and at 1:20am last night I just started to see the sun rising in game, It was a beautiful sight. When I have some free time in the mornings CST over the holidays and weekends I'll be enjoying the daylight. Until then I'm happy testing this pay for alpha game. I think there should be some sort of word from Rocket or the devs to let us know about their decisions concerning the timezone/day/night issue we have here in this thread. ***** EDIT ***** It looks as though server admins are able to change their servers time zone/etc. They can't change the length of the day/night cycle, just offset it to their preference or timezone. So contact whoever manages the servers for a change. :)
