Are there any plan on forcing a Day/Night cycle?

[billyangstadt 272]

I'm sorry if this has been addressed, I can't seem to find it.

 

I'm tired of every stable server I find being forced to 24 hr day. The most exciting part of the game to me is scurrying around in the night. Full Moon nights are still VERY clear and you can see a country mile.

 

If you give people the option to make things easier, 9/10 will.

 

 

Just imagine how many overwatch type servers we would have if loot tables were allowed to be edited.

There would maybe be a very small handful of servers that would stick to the CLE.

Edited May 11, 2015 by DanicaHamlin

[Caboose187 (DayZ) 3036]

There is no night time. There is only day and slightly darker day, called grey.

Edited May 11, 2015 by Caboose187

[RagedDrew 209]

There is no night time. There is only day and slightly darker day, called grey.

I'm pretty sure you are playing a different game than everyone else.

[CornProducts 315]

Night time is one of those things that splits servers, somewhat like 1PP vs 3PP. I am pretty sure everyone would have a lot more fun if they played night time, but the typical response is "I don't want to play night time every time I log in!"

 

To that I say, I don't want to play day time every time I log in!

[Coheed_IV 381]

I think nothing is really finalized with this. Give an opinion. Mine would be to have a 18 hour day, and persistent time. This would mean, if playing at the same time, on same server in a three day (real time) span, you would have to play one night. This would have to be maditory across all servers to work.

[sachad 1016]

Let the server owners decide, I say.

 

Right now I'm not a fan of night, since I always assume everyone else around me is gamma cheating and therefor posesses a seriously unfair advantage, so I either end up cranking up the gamma myself, which just makes it DayZ in greyscale, or I end up leaving. 

[ejones7761 9]

If there was a way to make sure that people weren't turning up their gamma, i would like the night a lot more.

[vfxtodd 125]

I'm sorry. Forcing night and day would be a game breaker. Especially if you force people to play based on their local time zone.

Most of the time, I can only play at night, after work. So, if you get your way, I will only ever play DayZ at night. The game is fine as it is. You only have to look on the server browser to see there are plenty of night time servers running at any one time.

Edited May 13, 2015 by BulletGarden

[gannon46 788]

i like the night time to was funny got a server me and a friend did we made sure it had night time well because we like it and felt like it would be a good thing. all the players were always asking can you make it day time? NO i can not sry. i agree OP there aren't to many that have night time maybe the new render will change that maybe night time will look better hence folks will want to play it time will tell.

[gannon46 788]

I'm sorry. Forcing night and day would be a game breaker. Especially if you force people to play based on their local time zone.

Most of the time, I can only play at night, after work. So, if you get your way, I will only ever play DayZ at night. The game is fine as it is. You only have to look on the server browser to see there are plenty of night time servers running at any one time.

hence why you set it up fair for everyone like 3 hours of day 1 hour of night or 2 hours of day 2 hours of night or something of that nature.

[Evil Minion 943]

I'm sorry. Forcing night and day would be a game breaker. Especially if you force people to play based on their local time zone.

That's indeed an issue but can be solved by simply allowing server owners to set a time multiplier and an offset within certain limits. With this forcing nighttime only means that every server is required to provide just as much nighttime as it provides daytime but not when. This way nighttime has an impact on gameplay and light sources stop being next to useless without forcing players to play at night all the time.

Alternatively there could be a globally fixed ingame time on the public hive but with a time multiplier that causes ingame days to "cycle" through real life days. So if you always play at the same time you will catch every ingame time of day and switching to a different server (including those far away) will not change this.

The former might be more suited for a "normal" mode the latter might work well on a "hardcore" mode.

[renpab80@gmail.com 41]

i think the accelerated time provides the best compromise, next step: force a gamma setting so nobody can crank it up to have an unfair advantage.

[ejones7761 9]

I'm sorry. Forcing night and day would be a game breaker. Especially if you force people to play based on their local time zone.

Most of the time, I can only play at night, after work. So, if you get your way, I will only ever play DayZ at night. The game is fine as it is. You only have to look on the server browser to see there are plenty of night time servers running at any one time.

 

 

I don't think it should be based on timezone. I would suggest something like 3 hours of day and 1 hour of night.