Make 24 hours happen faster in game.

[wolfstriked 143]

realtime 24 hour Day/night cycle in DayZ is realistic but does this add anything?Would a more gamey effect work better.Rocket speaks of subtle layers adding to the overall effect and I think that a 24 hour cycle done in 4 hours in game would add this.

My reason has to do with scale and endurance.Say it takes you one hour to get to NWAF leaving the coast at 12 noon you arrive at 1pm.But do you really think you could make that trek in one hour with the mountains,obstacles etc?No it will instead be an all day affair.Change to 4 hours and suddenly your arriving at NWAF at 8pm.Stalker game had a default 2.5 hour day/night cycle that was modded to 4 hours and many said it felt perfect.Also,this will give you spookiness that dusk dawn brings by allowing 2 hours of the 4 hours in low light conditions.

Plus I posted in another thread that maybe that when a new life is started you have to live that life out in that specific server to stop the server hopping.With 1 hour of night time I am pretty sure many people will play thru it. :)

[EnermaX 59]

Nope.

[terrvik 2409]

rocket has stated that the mechanics (spawning, loot etc.) is based on time so screwing with the time settings will screw with... well, everything. :)

[AcucracK 0]

This could easily be a server side option, and is a great idea.

My group I play with all cannot play till around 11pm Arizona time, so the server we currently play on is always dark. Before we played on a server that for whatever reason, it may have been server resets, but it seemed to rotate. Some nights when we got on it was day time, the next night is was night time.

Some might say the solution is to just go to another server, but eventually you start making a particular server your home. Either make the days in game shorter or longer than normal, and this could be a server side option easily.

[7-75 callaghan 43]

Does it add anything? Yes, as per realism in general, immersion. There are enough games out there that don't do these things, savour the sweet taste of arma.

There are many servers that have a time offset, so you aren't forced to play at local time while having a good ping.

[wolfstriked 143]

NOPE.....lol dam most of my suggestions get these simple answers.

Rocket can change the spawn rate to work with different day/night cycle...not complicated IMO.

Acucrack,it can also add imersion.When ever I play its always a certain light level out since I live for average of 3 hours.But when I find a server that is at say 8pm and its getting dark but still very playable I feel so immersed into the world.Plus it makes you feel like u have actually hiked all day long to get to your destination.

What do you guys think about locking in a life to one server.This would force people to play out the hour of darkness and just adds that subtlety while not forcing player to sit thru 8 real times hours of which most people just leave.It could even be tried with 8 hour day/night cycle to give 2 hours each midday/dawn/dusk/night.

Heck,this game looks best at dusk/dawn since it hides some of the ugliness that older games have.Maybe best is to leave servers stuck at 8pm. ;) LOL

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Does it add anything? Yes' date=' as per realism in general, immersion. There are enough games out there that don't do these things, savour the sweet taste of arma.

There are many servers that have a time offset, so you aren't forced to play at local time while having a good ping.

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Thats just it,we are losing out of the immersion that changing light levels bring in game.Real life you would take all day to reach a place and in game its 1 hour has passed so it feels the same.Faster light changes make for a larger world feel within a PC game. ;)

[AcucracK 0]

haha, yeah I don't understand why even get on the forums and post anything if all you have to add to a suggestion thread is "nope."

Forcing someone to play a particular server for the duration of their characters life would be pretty rough. There already is the issue where a server you may start to call home randomly goes down for one reason or another. Should a player then lose their things and have to start all over when the join another server because the one they were on crashed?

As it is, once players set up a tent or find a vehicle on a server, that kinda starts a "lock" in process you are talking about. Because if you hop to another server, your camp does not follow you.

[Bower 4]

This could easily be a server side option' date=' and is a great idea.

My group I play with all cannot play till around 11pm Arizona time, so the server we currently play on is always dark. Before we played on a server that for whatever reason, it may have been server resets, but it seemed to rotate. Some nights when we got on it was day time, the next night is was night time.

Some might say the solution is to just go to another server, but eventually you start making a particular server your home. Either make the days in game shorter or longer than normal, and this could be a server side option easily.

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There's plenty of servers with time zone settings which differ from the actual server's time so if you play late at night like myself it isn't an issue.

[wolfstriked 143]

Forcing someone to play a particular server for the duration of their characters life would be pretty rough. There already is the issue where a server you may start to call home randomly goes down for one reason or another. Should a player then lose their things and have to start all over when the join another server because the one they were on crashed?

As it is' date=' once players set up a tent or find a vehicle on a server, that kinda starts a "lock" in process you are talking about. Because if you hop to another server, your camp does not follow you.

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Dam,never thought of that.Still think that people will play thru one hour of darkness.....then again looking at this community so far and I doubt even that.LOL Just went into a barn and two Jedi morph into sight.They had put barbwire all over the dam barn LOL.

[Asuka 20]

I honestly wouldn't mind, I haven't seen a god damn night server in ages, I mean, It's like 3 AM, I join most servers with GMT +2 or -2 or close to that, and when I check the ingame time it's 5PM

[Longs 42]

I like it the way it is atm, when it gets dark in game I log off and go to bed. If it was different I'd continue playing late into the night which would make me late for work. I start at 5am lol

[wolfstriked 143]

^^ LMAO,i know the feeling.5am here also.