Perma Daylight Servers

[flincher14 0]

There are some servers that are permanently daylight no matter what timezone or time of day. US12 is one of these servers. I was under the impression this wasn't suppose to be allowed/possible? Is it alright this server never gets dark?

I fear some players will hug to servers like this to avoid the greatness that is night time.

[vedicardi 7]

is that possible?

[JinxX 11]

There are some servers that are permanently daylight no matter what timezone or time of day. US12 is one of these servers. I was under the impression this wasn't suppose to be allowed/possible? Is it alright this server never gets dark?

I fear some players will hug to servers like this to avoid the greatness that is night time.

With my current monitor setup night time makes me completely blind. Upping my gamma up makes me feel cheap for some reason.

Unless the moon is out I absolutely can't see two feet in front of me sadly which means I get to play with the French during the night considering its the only time I get to really play.

As for people who love the night and thrive in it, I'm sure there's enough of you to play together.

PS. The French are very very mean.

[eegore 23]

None of my friends will play at night. I've had three people play at night the first time and they wont play again.

Flashlights would be nice at a minimum just so people give it a chance.

[Macenzie 79]

Night time is the only way to play, daylight is an unsessisary hazard that gets you killed :P

[griffinz 2816]

I do all my looting at night.

Why on earth would you play on a daylight server?

[Marcuss95 0]

night it alot better :D

[sfvkye 3]

HTFU. Its great to see where people are at nighttime running around with a flare in their hand.

[CalUKGR 4]

Firstly, I see no reason why servers shouldn't be allowed to set their own preferred time of day. That way players can choose dawn/day/dusk/night servers as per personal preference. There will, of course, always be those who insist (wrongly) that 'night time is the best!' - it isn't, even though they might insist very loudly. Night play is an option - or at least, it should be an option - one of many different ways to play.

The SP game that has now been released highlights why playing in daylight makes perfect sense when there are no pesky bandits around. There is no reason to want to play in the dark unless you are a complete masochist.

Playing at night only makes real sense if you are in permanent danger from other human players spotting you. But without torches (which would only serve to give your position away immediately to any waiting bandit or zombie) this quickly becomes an exercise in utter frustration. This is an essential weakness in the MP game, imo, and might explain why so many MP players migrate to daylight servers whenever possible. Actions, after all, speak louder than words.

[litoralis.nMd 1]

Put aside the personal preferences to playing at day or night.

The OP is stating a particular server is NOT running a day/night cycle AT ALL.

This is either admin abuse, admin noobiness or oversight, an unstable server constantly rebooting, the server host allowing the timezone of the server machine to be changed at each Arma2 server reboot, or the OP is mistaken due to the luck of the draw as to when he logged in in relation to the server restarting.

All of these except the possibility the OP just got in a unlucky log in cycle in regards to the server rebooting, are problems that are addressable.

[duncandun 4]

Believe this is actually a bug in stable servers(ie ones that don't restart every once in a while).

For instance, on US13 I was playing almost all day. People who had been ingame for a while(and not died, atleast) would experience time going forward and eventual darkness. However, apon aborting out and reconnecting time would revert back to around 3:30 and it would be light out.

However, shortly after this(after the server had been up for over 10 hours) the server crashed or restarted and time jumped forward to ~11pm. Roughly on time.

So It seems to be an issue with the server itself not correctly advancing time. Maybe it has to do with servers becoming unstable over time? Since I assume ARMA is played in Rounds with general time limits and not for many hours at a time.

Regardless, it's a bug with servers and not a 'feature'. A restart fixes it.

[wolfgang784 13]

Regardless' date=' it's a bug with servers and not a 'feature'. A restart fixes it.

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I believe he is talking about the servers that, in the NAME of the server in the server list says "PERMA DAYTIME". Obviously not a bug when the server name is advertising that they never have night. Go search down the list, there are a few.

[grio 0]

I prefer night over day.

[survivalist 19]

Putting aside personal preference, I somewhat share this sentiment. Me, and my brother - who both enjoy this mod on a parttime basis, have fulltime jobs. The only times we could play happen to corelate to when the server majority are night. While experiencing night is fun, once in a while - I do not personally enjoy playing night maps on a daily basis, and would like to see more daylight servers. Everyone has their preference, I'm just reiterating what people with jobs and limited hours may be experiencing.