Nighttime

[Atkins (DayZ) 4]

Night-Time

Either the servers need to be on the same night-day-cycle or there has to be more incentive to play at night. Right now u can pretty much always find a server that has day time going on.

I know there is a different kind of thrill going on at night time but there is also more frustration which will make u choose a day-time server instead if one is available.

Perhaps in the future there will be side-missions etc. that has to be completed at the dark hours. Or you could even now make some more interesting props spawn at night time to courage night time playing.

Or you could also increase the murdering punishment at night time as well the reward for helping.

Idk, i might be totally wrong here. Feel free to criticize and comment.

[Freyar 8]

If there were missions, then maybe side missions would be a good idea.

I do kind of wish time was sped up, but the devs in their FAQ have stated that they cannot do that.

[tpenn 9]

In terms of incentive, Night time should offer the advantage that since there's no light, infected must rely entirely on sound.

As-is now, if you alert an infected day or night, you're pretty much boned. But realistically I don't see how it's possible that I fire a shot, alert an infected, and 10 seconds later after silently moving positions that poor-sighted infected magically knows exactly where I am in the pitch black of night when I can't even see the pair of shoes on my own feet.

Fix that bit of ridiculousness and night-time excursions suddenly have a viable reason to exist.