Servers with day AND night cycles...

[Somber_Joker]

I have yet to join a high pop server that has a day and a night cycle, which really sucks because I feel like night adds a nice change of pace, especially with player interaction. People always complain about night servers and night time in general and I can't wrap my head around it. Thoughts? Also if someone could give me the name of a server that is consistently high pop with a full time cycle, i'd appreciate it.

[Nyanch]

Same here with 1PP, excluding DayZUnderground.

[Smackhead Steve]

Agreed, I like the idea of days passing in-game, and survivng a full night/day cycle makes me feel like i've survived a literal full day. Not to mention the dramatic effect the nighttime has on everything from muzzle flashes, to fires, and it actually kind of sets the mood. Seems to me the only reason to play a 24/7 server is for frames, or just to go kill people. Night time and the transition phases seem essential for immersion, but i suppose most people don't care about the immersion as much as going out to shoot someone.

night time rocks man. I'd also like to know of a full cycle (fast time prefereably) populated server.

[Hajami]

I read that Server owners can speed up the Time cycle up to 64x.
If that costs too much FPS, than dont make it Dynamic but change it every 15 Minutes realtime so 3hours ingame time goes forward.

Not sure if People tested that on Servers? Would be cool to know.

[Syndicate._.]

Originally posted by Munt Cuffin:

Agreed, I like the idea of days passing in-game, and survivng a full night/day cycle makes me feel like i've survived a literal full day. Not to mention the dramatic effect the nighttime has on everything from muzzle flashes, to fires, and it actually kind of sets the mood. Seems to me the only reason to play a 24/7 server is for frames, or just to go kill people. Night time and the transition phases seem essential for immersion, but i suppose most people don't care about the immersion as much as going out to shoot someone.

night time rocks man. I'd also like to know of a full cycle (fast time prefereably) populated server.

Going out, shooting people during nighttime is a lot of fun aswell:D and the darkness makes it a lot more tense. You can turn up your gamma tho, so it kinda takes away the night time. Btw a little off topic, why tf do they add nightvision googles and a thermal scope? You can see pretty well during "night time".

[Shadowfox]

there was one i played on a while ago i cant remeber the name but it was basicly an hour of day time and an hour of night time it was pretty fun to use the flare gun and stuff to regroup if our 4 man squad got seperated and fires & torches made everything all spooky looking xD

[zin0]

Originally posted by Hajami:

I read that Server owners can speed up the Time cycle up to 64x.
If that costs too much FPS, than dont make it Dynamic but change it every 15 Minutes realtime so 3hours ingame time goes forward.

Not sure if People tested that on Servers? Would be cool to know.

Yes they can. We can speed it up indeed. I had it to where my server was cycling through day and night faster than other servers and it stayed full, but alot of people were complaining about the nighttime so i changed it.

[PorkChop]

Originally posted by zxXJackXxz:

yeah id love to play high pop at night if everyone used like flashlights chemlights etc. but like everyone will just turn up their gamma so it kind of defeats the point of it..

I just played a very dark night time experimental server and the gamma trick no long works.

I might ad that it was to dark to be playing for me so I just quit.

[[415]BlazeMcNight]

Originally posted by PorkChop:

Originally posted by zxXJackXxz:

yeah id love to play high pop at night if everyone used like flashlights chemlights etc. but like everyone will just turn up their gamma so it kind of defeats the point of it..

I just played a very dark night time experimental server and the gamma trick no long works.

I might ad that it was to dark to be playing for me so I just quit.

Just curious but what kind of GPU are you using? I played a bit of .60 today and the adjusting the gamma worked fine for me. I'm wondering if it is a GPU issue becasue I'm seeing people saying it works (like myself) and people saying it doesn't work.

[PorkChop]

My GPU is MSI r7-370 4 gig

When I was running around with a flare the light was terrible also. Great play in the daytime though except some flashes from shadows.

Originally posted by BlazeMcNight:

Originally posted by PorkChop:

I just played a very dark night time experimental server and the gamma trick no long works.

I might ad that it was to dark to be playing for me so I just quit.

Just curious but what kind of GPU are you using? I played a bit of .60 today and the adjusting the gamma worked fine for me. I'm wondering if it is a GPU issue becasue I'm seeing people saying it works (like myself) and people saying it doesn't work.