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.