Darker nights?

With the announcement of them still experimenting on various things, reworking lighting, etc. I feel like now is the best time to bring this stuff up. Especially since they wanna try using multiple light sources.

At ET 6pm/am transitions daytime to nighttime or vice versa. A toggle/checkbox would be neat which would allow for the global light source to be disabled at 6pm and re-enabled at 6am. Since they transition (or change intensity) exactly at that time, no one would notice it anyways.
I know not everyone wants darker nights (hence make it optional), but having the moon light up the scenery as much as it does now is too much (at least in my opinion)

Obviously, they don't want it being dark to prevent you from playing the game, so it's still bright enough to see everything.

There's a degree where darker nights affect the gameplay and where people would complain: "It's so dark I can't see much". However, I think we could get much darker nights without it having any notable effect on the gameplay.

There's also a complain darker night will makes those who have dark skin gonna have trouble time to see their characters and take a screenie, so please think wider before suggesting that :)

I wouldn't mind this, though I think it should be a toggle to avoid upsetting anyone.

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Originally Posted by Knot_D

There's also a complain darker night will makes those who have dark skin gonna have trouble time to see their characters and take a screenie, so please think wider before suggesting that :)

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OP suggested to make it a toggle, I don't think anything about his post is narrow minded. I personally never seemed to have that issue with the option that lets you light your character in gpose. Although Ive seen screenies from some friends using special sh*ders that made me blend into the background lol.

only if there are more sources of light

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Originally Posted by Knot_D

There's also a complain darker night will makes those who have dark skin gonna have trouble time to see their characters and take a screenie, so please think wider before suggesting that :)

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I know not everyone wants darker nights (hence make it optional)

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There's no point in forcing it upon everyone as your reason and the others about playability are the main reasons why we don't have this by default right now. But that's not what I asked for to begin with.

Darker nights, with quiet, somber music and maybe different enemies or some types of enemies missing would be great. Maybe with campfires. Aetherytes would glow. I would love that vibe

Personally have bad eyes and i'm already not enjoying the nights in 14 "I feel like everytime I log in its dark and for way to long.."
If its optional I would have no problem with it, but then I would like to turn night off completely as well while we're at it :p

It would be nice to see a real change in the times of day when night is real night with dark atmosphere. It could be awesome if somehow it affects your gameplay but it will require some changes in game mechanic. Back in the beginning of 2000 the developer of WoW also wanted to make realistic times of day when people actually needed torches for light since vision was very limited due to darkness at night – it is sad it did not make into release. But I believe most of people are satisfied with current situation and developers wont bother with it at all.

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Originally Posted by BRVV

Darker nights, with quiet, somber music and maybe different enemies or some types of enemies missing would be great. Maybe with campfires. Aetherytes would glow. I would love that vibe

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ooh. I miss the chain fate in the steppes. It was so nice to camp out

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

I wouldn't mind this, though I think it should be a toggle to avoid upsetting anyone.

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Are they able to make a global server side effect a personal effect?

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Originally Posted by Saimeren

Are they able to make a global server side effect a personal effect?

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Considering the limitations they apparently encounter with a lot of other things and claim they can't overcome them, I sincerely doubt it. But hey, who knows.

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Originally Posted by Saimeren

Are they able to make a global server side effect a personal effect?

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The only thing the server controls in this case is the actual time of day.

The entire graphical aspect of the game is handled client side, hence why programs like Gshade or Nvidia shader programs can affect the game. In fact, with such programs, OP can already achieve what they want with a shader that naturally darkens the colors on-screen or increases the strength of darker colors. Fulfilling the OP's request would be to have an option that toggles a sort of pre-bult shader, much akin to the various color filters you can activate in gpose. The bigger question would be, 'should Square dedicate any sort of dev time to an extremely niche request that PC users can already simulate with not illegal 3rd party programs Yoshi-P has said is fine to use? (Gshade)'

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Originally Posted by Saimeren

Are they able to make a global server side effect a personal effect?

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All visual stuff happens on client-side. In this case the server only dictates what time it is, so your game knows what shaders to en- or disable or what position your skybox should have. In theory everyone could play while sun/moon maintain static positions, practically SE has to make these changes though.

Daeriion_Aeradiir beat me to it