Day Night Cycle Calculator

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Edit: Updated to v1.1
Edit: Updated link and file v1.2. No changes, just to differentiate.

tldr;
Calculator link v1.2

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qxojy4m2xfg5umv/Ark_SE_TimeCalc_v1.2.xlsx?dl=0
Please test and let me know.

Calculating day and night......
I have read many posts regarding the Day/Night cycle in Ark SE.

After doing so I was left more confused than when I started as the values do not seem to match what I am getting on my server.

First.
I run a ARK SE server on Nitrado.
It is UK based (not sure if location will have any ramifications - it shouldn't but who knows).
The current map I have tested this on is RAGNAROK.
At the time of this post my server is on version 264.16

Nitrado show the following names for timing settings in their UI;

Day cycle speed scale
Defines the speed of a whole day.

Night time scale
Defines the time scale of the night.

Day time scale
Defines the time scale of the day.

These (as far as I know) conform to the three server settings;

DayCycleSpeedScale
NightTimeSpeedScale
DayTimeSpeedScale
and by default each one was initially set to 1.0 (a floating point value).

From there it got tricky as I read many conflicting discussions and what values would give. The values did not match the results I was obtaining.

So I decided to run a stopwatch and see for myself.
Because of this manual method my times will have fractional differences, but as I cannot find anywhere the actual game creators fixed values this is all I have.

Anyway, with default values (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) I measured the following;

A game 24 hour cycle = 1 hour real time
1 hour game time during the DAY = 2mins 44 seconds
1 hour game time during the NIGHT = 2mins 44 seconds

DAY seems to start at 05:15
NIGHT seems to start at 21:50

This gives 16 hours 35 mins for DAY length
and 7 Hours 25 mins for NIGHT length.

These day and night values are constant, it is how long each game min lasts in real time that changes and this is affected by the three game scales given.

The whole thing seems madness as it could have been done with simply 2 values, however we have what we have.

To cut things short on this diatribe, I did a load of measurements and put them into an Excel sheet to make it easier to calculate and test.

Link below if you would like to try.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qxojy4m2xfg5umv/Ark_SE_TimeCalc_v1.2.xlsx?dl=0

Link will only last 30 days from this post, will put it somewhere more lasting if there is interest.

Maybe it is purely my server that responds this way, but I would be greatful for people to try and provide any feedback to whether it works or is messed up some way.

To be honest, I just want a reliable way to work out what to put into the 3 Scale values to get reasonably accurate timing from game to real life.

[bsmorgan]

Any chance of putting this file somewhere that doesn't cost money to download?

I'd also like to directly input the scale values and see what the resulting lengths would be.

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Ursprünglich geschrieben von bsmorgan:

Any chance of putting this file somewhere that doesn't cost money to download?

I'd also like to directly input the scale values and see what the resulting lengths would be.

Done
Made a DropBox link.

[ﮱﮔutex]

I know you guys are running servers, but as a player on a Private server I'm interested in knowing

1) Longer nights Does that stuff 'things' up ?
2) Darker nights , not every night just more variance in weather and darkness

[bsmorgan]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Random Event:

Done
Made a DropBox link.

Thank you very much!