Just curious. Which do you prefer and why.
Running lights or no running lights
I feel like there are phases to the lantern on/off behaviour.
As a Swabbie, you don't know better - lights on.
As a more experienced player - lights off.
As a Veteran who doesn't care - lights on again.
You spot the difference between a "lights on"-Swabbie and a "lights on"-Veteran by their behaviour and ship cosmetics.
Lights off, though I know it doesn’t do much of anything.
I keep them on for hourglass though because there’s no point in turning them off at that point.
I used to just keep them on.
And then my friend and I got chased by someone for 40 minutes. Into heavy storms, around islands, around rocks; We could not shake him. But he could not gain on us.
When it got dark again, we started sailing towards a different ship on the horizon, I put out all lights, and we heeled hard to port to go behind a large rock.When I looked back, the chaser was still going forwards, towards the other lights on the horizon.
He may have just gotten sick of the chase, but I choose to think we tricked him by extinguishing all lights before making a dramatic direction change.
I mean, he had ignored 3 other ships previously to keep chasing us.
