@boldgame Yeah, you know imagine there's a galleon at some outpost at night, and everything around is nearly pitch black. If you're a solo sloop you could sail in there. Or vice versa. Any ship.
Of if you really need to finish a quest, but there's all kinds of players in ships around where you need to go, wait for night fall, sail in there, do your thing, and sail out (hopefully) without being detected. It's no guarantee, and you might get killed and lose your treasure, but it's a chance.
@sarc76 said in Moonless night option:
Foggy nights! Which also cloud up the map so you cant see where you're heading and have to use the bell and if you hear an echo you know land is near.
Sorry..... just went with it 😂
Foggy nights would be interesting.
@sarc76 said in Moonless night option:
Foggy nights! Which also cloud up the map so you cant see where you're heading and have to use the bell and if you hear an echo you know land is near.
Sorry..... just went with it 😂
Yea i'd roll with that idea.. Imagine a layer of fog on the calmer areas arround an island in the night... Hell yea..
@fantome-of-blue said in Moonless night option:
So, I'm wondering if there's a possibility where we could get extremely dark nights without colored skies or moons. The kind of night that really lets you sneak around. The kind of night where you really need to use your ship's lanterns to navigate.
Just a thought.
Just turn off your tv/monitor.
@blooddoll22 said in Moonless night option:
@fantome-of-blue said in Moonless night option:
So, I'm wondering if there's a possibility where we could get extremely dark nights without colored skies or moons. The kind of night that really lets you sneak around. The kind of night where you really need to use your ship's lanterns to navigate.
Just a thought.
Just turn off your tv/monitor.
Great advice... much needed. Such humor. What a champ..
Can someone give this guy a medal for that incredible comment?
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@zneekey said in Moonless night option:
@blooddoll22 said in Moonless night option:
@fantome-of-blue said in Moonless night option:
So, I'm wondering if there's a possibility where we could get extremely dark nights without colored skies or moons. The kind of night that really lets you sneak around. The kind of night where you really need to use your ship's lanterns to navigate.
Just a thought.
Just turn off your tv/monitor.
Great advice... much needed. Such humor. What a champ..
Can someone give this guy a medal for that incredible comment?
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treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant.
My way of saying - I think the darkness level is fine and that we need not increase darkness for the sake of stealth.
Perhaps snarky, perhaps unfunny, but sells my point.
@blooddoll22 said in Moonless night option:
@zneekey said in Moonless night option:
@blooddoll22 said in Moonless night option:
@fantome-of-blue said in Moonless night option:
So, I'm wondering if there's a possibility where we could get extremely dark nights without colored skies or moons. The kind of night that really lets you sneak around. The kind of night where you really need to use your ship's lanterns to navigate.
Just a thought.
Just turn off your tv/monitor.
Great advice... much needed. Such humor. What a champ..
Can someone give this guy a medal for that incredible comment?
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fa·ce·tious
fəˈsēSHəs/Submit
adjective
treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant.
My way of saying - I think the darkness level is fine and that we need not increase darkness for the sake of stealth.
Perhaps snarky, perhaps unfunny, but sells my point.
And I disagree with it, because my idea is to lower the in game brightness level so that you can barely see anything beyond a certain distance.
I think it would add something to the gameplay. Maybe the moon goes through different phases, though not as many as here in the real world, but all the same determines the brightness of in game night time.
I think it's worth considering. Maybe it's something for an "expert only" server or something. I don't know.
@fantome-of-blue said in Moonless night option:
@blooddoll22 said in Moonless night option:
@zneekey said in Moonless night option:
@blooddoll22 said in Moonless night option:
@fantome-of-blue said in Moonless night option:
So, I'm wondering if there's a possibility where we could get extremely dark nights without colored skies or moons. The kind of night that really lets you sneak around. The kind of night where you really need to use your ship's lanterns to navigate.
Just a thought.
Just turn off your tv/monitor.
Great advice... much needed. Such humor. What a champ..
Can someone give this guy a medal for that incredible comment?
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fa·ce·tious
fəˈsēSHəs/Submit
adjective
treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant.
My way of saying - I think the darkness level is fine and that we need not increase darkness for the sake of stealth.
Perhaps snarky, perhaps unfunny, but sells my point.
And I disagree with it, because my idea is to lower the in game brightness level so that you can barely see anything beyond a certain distance.
I think it would add something to the gameplay. Maybe the moon goes through different phases, though not as many as here in the real world, but all the same determines the brightness of in game night time.
I think it's worth considering. Maybe it's something for an "expert only" server or something. I don't know.
My reverse sentiment really stems from the darkness level of the game as is. It's BLACK in many areas. Forcing the use of a lantern already. I mostly regard locations such as heavy foliage, as I agree the beaches of the islands aren't too dark in the least.
I can't remark that it'd add much to game play itself, but ambiance for certain, it would.
There is one element that I don't think anyone could argue with - rather than as a game play mechanic... adding a greater depth to the shadowing ala moon phases wouldn't be a negative thing at all.
Just as adding shadows to the ropes on the ship aren't bad... in fact, I personally laud that.
So less of an 'increase in darkness', and certainly not for the 'sake of stealth', I can support the notion of even better shaders related to cloud cover and having the moon as a legitimate source of light rather than the transparency that it is.
@pure-rare said in Moonless night option:
Let's have it so we can't see anything. Good one.
Maybe you need to read the whole thread.
@fantome-of-blue said in Moonless night option:
@blooddoll22 well, just a variance in darkness is what I'm really getting at. The moon is always out, and perhaps that can be tweaked.
This specific statement I have zero remark against. I am totally for this concept rephrased in this way!
Having the moon as more than a picture floating above the seas and linking the light to the moon itself could be very interesting.
Never thought about it - but is the sun operated with cloud cover affecting it? Don't think it is directly.
