Day/Night length increase

[Torvald]

The new screenshots of nighttime in Gridania are stunning. It makes me want to revisit the length of the day/night cycles in game. In 1.0 the cycles are short enough that as soon as you get used to one, its already changing. It ends up being quite jarring.

I would really like to see longer cycles. A two hour long 'day' I think sounds just about right as far as length goes. It would mean that in a small play period of 1-3 hours you'd tend to have a single transition of day into night or night into day. It would allow players to really enjoy the nighttime/daytime scenery during a play session.

Of course some people play at the same time every day, so to avoid this group being 'always in the dark' or 'always in the light', it would be better to stagger the time so that it varies day to day, so perhaps 1.5 hours per 'day' or 2.5 hours.

[Wolfie]

Sounds like it would be a problem if any events/monsters are only available during day time or night time.

[Alhanelem]

Is I just posted in another thread, i'd like to see ingame time go away entirely and just use real life time and have 24 hour days.

[Reinheart]

Is I just posted in another thread, i'd like to see ingame time go away entirely and just use real life time and have 24 hour days.

Would be nice but would be hard as hell for players to stay up for certain events, and which world time do we go by?

[Alhanelem]

Would be nice but would be hard as hell for players to stay up for certain events, and which world time do we go by?

We don't have any events based on time of day though. And nobody schedules linkshell/GC events by in-game time.

[AmandaHuggenkiss]

We don't have any events based on time of day though. And nobody schedules linkshell/GC events by in-game time.

Not true.
Some NM's only spawn in daylight, some only at night.
While others spawn when the weather is right.

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

Is I just posted in another thread, i'd like to see ingame time go away entirely and just use real life time and have 24 hour days.

There's a dev quote on here somewhere that basically says they don't want it to be like this because of people's work/school schedules etc. they might always be playing at the same time and therefore won't get to experience the differences between night and day very often.


That said, I agree with the above poster. Imo, it's more immersive to have the in-game time and the real time be the same. It's cool to wake up in the morning and grab your coffee and log in and it's morning in the game as well. or to have it be dark in your room at night and also dark in the game, instead of glaringly bright.

It would be difficult to accomplish this though because there aren't localized servers. The in-game time might not be the same as your time zone and could be slightly off, or even completely opposite. That would probably bother some people and lead to more players segregating themselves by region.

[Torvald]

Is I just posted in another thread, i'd like to see ingame time go away entirely and just use real life time and have 24 hour days.

Its a nice idea, but it would definitely lead to many players only seeing day or night during the majority of their playtime. 2 or so hours might be the happy medium.

And yes as Wolfie mentioned, it would not be as easy to schedule monster spawns around the day/night cycle, but I think there could be ways around this. The benefit outweighs the difficulty.

[Ozak]

Is I just posted in another thread, i'd like to see ingame time go away entirely and just use real life time and have 24 hour days.

This would cause certain players who can only get online during the day or only at night, to always be in the dark or in the light. I would hate this!!

[Alhanelem]

This would cause certain players who can only get online during the day or only at night, to always be in the dark or in the light. I would hate this!!

No, it wouldn't cause that, unless you work/sleep the exact same 23 hours a day and could only play the same hour every day. In which case, you already don't have time for an MMO in the first place.

Too much time without Final Fantasy XIV, and people start complaining even about Night/Day time duration... It has NEVER been a problem. Sometimes thinking too much hurts.

It was really more of a suggestion than a complaint. Both the OP and me are making suggestions. We're not complaining that what we have now is terrible, we're just coming up with ideas as to how we think we could make it better.