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Mcadamsl
09.28.2012 , 06:43 AM | #61
I never have seen where any games Day/night, Random weather added to " Living breathing world " mainly because random weather or day and night do nothing but add a slight bluing or darkening of the sky for night and particle effect for weather, Shops and merchants still never move never close up at what would be middle of the night, if its a 60 min game time day night cycle your character doesn't suffer from lack of sleep after you have been playing for 4 or 5 hours ( this would be 4 to 5 days game time ). if anything they could better spent just making a more random looking path for back ground NPCs to walk around and do things then the time to add day and night

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Goretzu
09.28.2012 , 07:25 AM | #62
Quote: Originally Posted by Mcadamsl View Post
I never have seen where any games Day/night, Random weather added to " Living breathing world " mainly because random weather or day and night do nothing but add a slight bluing or darkening of the sky for night and particle effect for weather, Shops and merchants still never move never close up at what would be middle of the night, if its a 60 min game time day night cycle your character doesn't suffer from lack of sleep after you have been playing for 4 or 5 hours ( this would be 4 to 5 days game time ). if anything they could better spent just making a more random looking path for back ground NPCs to walk around and do things then the time to add day and night


Have you never played LOTRO?



Back in 1999 in Everquest(1) night time was a genuine nightmare, you literally could not see if you didn't have elven infravision, or if you didn't have a light source with you (or messed seriously with your gamma setting).

Also a perfectly safe old stone circle would suddenly spring up with skeletons.

There you'd be happliy killing L1-2 wolves...... then night would fall and you'd suddenly be running screaming, blind, from L5 skeletons (mobs didn't stop chasing you till you zoned), knowing full well that if you died you'll likely never find your corpse (no maps) and would lose all your hard earned gear and gold (along with EXP from your death).
Real Star Wars space combat please, not Star Wars Fox! Maybe some PvP and flight too?
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DuckKing
12.01.2012 , 03:41 AM | #63
Ugh it's so hard to immerse myself in this game, feel's like were playing on fake worlds. I don't think day will never end... same ****, new day.

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Nemhauser
12.01.2012 , 04:02 AM | #64
The only time I realize there isn't a day/night cycle is when I read about it on the forums. Basically says it all.

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sandisrd
12.01.2012 , 04:20 AM | #65
Hi,

Lets post as many post we can on this thread about these improvements, so maybe voice of community will have some power to persuade BW to make these changes in feature...

Keep up the good work BW on TOR, it's really becoming amazing SW game!...

Best regards BW!...
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Grayseven
12.01.2012 , 04:50 AM | #66
My reply is this: Why does it matter?

I don't CARE if there is a day/night cycle or weather effects or any of the thousand little things people constantly bring up that have absolutely ZERO effect on game play.

And if you are playing so bloody long that your "immersion" is broken because you've spent 24 hours playing the game without any change in the day....well, your problem is bigger than immersion.

How about asking "Will the Republic Alderaan Bonus Series bug ever get fixed" or "Will the disappearing schematics bug ever get fixed" or "Will the SSSP ever get off the ground"? Those actually matter.

Substance before fluff.
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Scathe
12.01.2012 , 04:57 AM | #67
Quote: Originally Posted by Grayseven View Post
My reply is this: Why does it matter?

I don't CARE if there is a day/night cycle or weather effects or any of the thousand little things people constantly bring up that have absolutely ZERO effect on game play.

And if you are playing so bloody long that your "immersion" is broken because you've spent 24 hours playing the game without any change in the day....well, your problem is bigger than immersion.

How about asking "Will the Republic Alderaan Bonus Series bug ever get fixed" or "Will the disappearing schematics bug ever get fixed" or "Will the SSSP ever get off the ground"? Those actually matter.

Substance before fluff.
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sandisrd
12.01.2012 , 05:05 AM | #68
Quote: Originally Posted by Grayseven View Post
My reply is this: Why does it matter?

I don't CARE if there is a day/night cycle or weather effects or any of the thousand little things people constantly bring up that have absolutely ZERO effect on game play.

And if you are playing so bloody long that your "immersion" is broken because you've spent 24 hours playing the game without any change in the day....well, your problem is bigger than immersion.

How about asking "Will the Republic Alderaan Bonus Series bug ever get fixed" or "Will the disappearing schematics bug ever get fixed" or "Will the SSSP ever get off the ground"? Those actually matter.

Substance before fluff.
Nonsenses you saying, immersion plays biggest pert in the game, after all, bugs in TOR isn't so many, there is no mayor problem with gameplay!...
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sstanks
12.01.2012 , 07:04 AM | #69
Quote: Originally Posted by Talimar View Post
No.

I love it when people say "It can't be hard". You have any idea what goes into making it like that? Clearly not. Just because another game does it does not make it easy. It has to be planned that way from the start. Shadows are baked into the textures in this game, and while I haven't played lotro, I bet they are not baked in that game. This is a time consuming process and would require a huge effort to change.
exactly it took WoW 2 years just to add snow and rain to their game.

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Surakis
12.01.2012 , 07:56 AM | #70
Quote: Originally Posted by SikrouDeco View Post
Simple question, any idea? Will the game always be as it is, and the weather, hour etc never change? Not being snarky, I just really wonder, if the devs ever adressed this, and what they said. It can't be hard, even lotro has day and night lol
Simple question, why does it matter? What tangible impact does it have on game play? Not being snarky, I just really wonder.
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