24 hour Real time servers are a terrible idea.

[StrungSweeney]

How about making the game day length 40 mins and the night time length 30mins. This insure's that you get both Day and night if this transfer's into stable i don't think ill be playing it as much as i like. Because i have to be up early to get the sunlight in DayZ.

I would like a poll on this before you push it into stable.

State of decay tried it and it failed the community wanted there heads on a pike.

So can the community please have a say on this topic so we can sort this out.

May be a server option to use realtime. or as i said 40mins day 30mins night.

[Idk]

Server: Servers now use an 24 hour cycle to determinate the time of day

That doesnt mean the "24" hour cycle is real, they can put the server at 24 hour cycle but 1 hour of the server can be for esample 4 minutes in real life, do you get me? its still nothink sure, they didn't sayd "Real 24 cycle time" they just sayd it... so they might make the server at 24 hour cycle but not real..

[StrungSweeney]

The time on the exp servers are real time in england i live in england.Eugen said in a twitter post. " They use server time now. So they have a 24hour cyle IRL"

I have yet to see a server where you can have a full day in DayZ. Day and night in lets say an hour.

[StrungSweeney]

https://twitter.com/eugenharton/status/532618318549889025

[Idk]

Originally posted by StrungSweeney:

The time on the exp servers are real time in england i live in england.Eugen said in a twitter post. " They use server time now. So they have a 24hour cyle IRL"

I have yet to see a server where you can have a full day in DayZ. Day and night in lets say an hour.

♥♥♥♥ but that is just wrong, cause i am at work, then i have some work at home and i can only play at 9-10 pm.. that means i will never see the sunlight again?... lol that is just wrong..

[StrungSweeney]

Yeah as i said. Realtime server's are going to kill this game.

[Reece Draygan]

This is not a good idea.... I want to be able to play at night AND day. I mostly play in the evenings IRL... this will finish the game off for me :-S

[Chromosome Collector]

I think this is a good idea, but it should be an option for admins whether or not they want to run a server on permanent day, permanent night, or 1 hour day/night cycles, etc.

[Zoinkgoblin]

Ther server host decides. Seeing as how they are paying for the server it should be up to them.

[Chromosome Collector]

^^^ precisely.

[Diogenes]

It isn't our place to ask for such things really. B.I hold the copyright. It's their property. All we have been asked to do is to provide bug support. No amount of polls or suggestions are going to get B.I to change the path that they have chosen to go down and I am quite certain that they won't change the current system to appease 1 person in the face of loosing millions of players if they think that it might happen.

Besides which, the game is still in it's infant stages. The Mod, when it was refined, was capable of having servers that ran 24/7 day or night. There is no reason to beleive that this won't happen in this particular circumstance either, when the game is finished.

Asking the community for an "informed opinion" will solve nothing. It will only be counter productive as it will start a forum debate that may run the risk of resulting in a flame war with so many people coming down on one side of the fence, and so many people coming down on the other side. You'll end up getting no where, and even then, you have to convince B.I to impliment the idea scene as this isn't an open source project and we have no legitimate power to change anything.

[StrungSweeney]

^^ When enough people come together you can change anything. This will cut the player base in half. And i dare B.I To put that as a main feature on the store page and see how many people get put off by playing real time. It's a video game not real life.

[todaugen]

I played on a server that reset about 10 minutes after it got too dark to see, and I think it was on a four hour reset cycle.

I prefer to be able to experience dawn and dusk ingame. The sunrise/sunset also helps with direction.

I agree with Cadderly: there is no reason to think that this 24hour realtime is going to be the only option.

[Dansmite]

Originally posted by Cadderley:

It isn't our place to ask for such things really. B.I hold the copyright. It's their property. All we have been asked to do is to provide bug support. No amount of polls or suggestions are going to get B.I to change the path that they have chosen to go down and I am quite certain that they won't change the current system to appease 1 person in the face of loosing millions of players if they think that it might happen.

Besides which, the game is still in it's infant stages. The Mod, when it was refined, was capable of having servers that ran 24/7 day or night. There is no reason to beleive that this won't happen in this particular circumstance either, when the game is finished.

Asking the community for an "informed opinion" will solve nothing. It will only be counter productive as it will start a forum debate that may run the risk of resulting in a flame war with so many people coming down on one side of the fence, and so many people coming down on the other side. You'll end up getting no where, and even then, you have to convince B.I to impliment the idea scene as this isn't an open source project and we have no legitimate power to change anything.

Completely disagree, the alpha testing stage of the game is exactly when we should be feeding info back in the hope the take some of the feedback on board. We are testers of the game and if we be constructive in our feedback why wouldn't the devs listen.

My two pence on this is also i work through the day so would only get to play at night so the only way i would really play is on an international server where it is daylight. Im happy with real time servers but let the admin choose the timezone so us workers can get some daytime play.

[Diogenes]

Originally posted by StrungSweeney:

^^ When enough people come together you can change anything. This will cut the player base in half. And i dare B.I To put that as a main feature on the store page and see how many people get put off by playing real time. It's a video game not real life.

B.I won't respond to a dare. They likely won't even ackowlege the existance of this thread. Trust me when I tell you that this more than likely won't happen.

I also think that you have more chances of winning the national lottery, than you do of getting 2 million + players together to take part in a poll, and that poll giving you the result that you want. I would put my money on many gamers telling you to shut up about it before they actually take part. I for one can tell you that, I personally won't take part in the poll. It's not my place to try and change the nature of the game.

I beg to differ, what your suggesting impacts in real life. Although, yes, this is a video game, the development phase is done by real people, the game is played by people in real life. Changes of this nature will have a significant real life impact on the fan base and the dev team.

[Idk]

Originally posted by StrungSweeney:

^^ When enough people come together you can change anything. This will cut the player base in half. And i dare B.I To put that as a main feature on the store page and see how many people get put off by playing real time. It's a video game not real life.

It would be good, seriously... i would love this feature to be implemented, but ONLY if we don't need to work, we receive moneys to stay at home, then of course i have no problem with real time... whatsoever... but i have to work, then i have to do some work at home too, finally when i come to the pc is evening at 9-10 pm... and i will catch only night time... that sucks... it would be good if none of us would need to go to work cause then we would have time to play both night and day ..