day and night cycle

is it possible? also will it be different from a planet to another,. If so; it is a good idea to add flashlights/lights to buildings and to units; isn't it?

I hope so. Given the abilities we've seen from the demo videos so far (during the live streams) why would they not have true orbiting planets (incl. day/night cycle)?

Watch a asteroid smash into the dark side of a planet and lights up the surface with a right flash of heat and destruction .

Wouldn't it be cool if units automatically lit up at night?

:O

I feel like this is a very tricky post. Damn you neutrino, damn the gods!

It's just a question.

Then an answer.

It would be so awesome that bacon would struggle to surpass it.


Not to say its possible but....

In earth 2150 they did this and it was sort of okay. The day/night cycle was relevant in two ways: 1: One faction relied on solar powerplants. 2: 2 factions had stealth that only worked when the units under stealth effect had their headlights off. Having headslights off at night caused a -80% movement speed penalty.

See the advantage of being a dev on a forum about a game that you're making gives you the freedom to murder us with tricky posts.

In case it is just a question, I'd say yes cause I suggested this myself in a post somewhere.

What I also suggested is that it would be cool to have night as a good way of sneaking up into the enemy base. Lights use more resources and theres a unit that can light up an area and help you give commands and perform better in a battle(incoming light messes with enemy sensors and makes them weaker)

Or simply have night vision and my idea goes down the shitter. :lol:

It might look cool, but the idea of super-futuristic robots that use visible light to scan their surroundings is weird.

The problem is that super futuristic robots aren't the ones that need the light, it's the players. I suppose we could just let the night side be lit up by explosions. Might get hard to select your units in the dark though

That is why the light in darkness should be an aspect of the economy and strategy in the game! If you decide to play in the dark, you will have more resources and you'll be pretty much hidden from the enemy but you will have a really hard time managing your units and buildings.

Would be pretty wicked to have that in the game. Imagine knowing when will darkness cover a planet, you plan your attack to be right afterwards. If your enemy wasn't ready to turn the lights on(in case its manual) then you strike him in the darkness and he, unprepared, without any vision, falls to the afterlife.

Or simply get a uber hi tech flamethrower and light the planet on fire before the darkness then there will be plenty of light for everyone!

Awesome *-*

It'd be very pretty, that's for sure.

I don't think day/night should have any effect on game play; boo that. However, it would be an epic visual eye candy.

On the night side; it does not have to be pitch black; just dark(er). The buildings and units could have a single pixel outline for play-ability.

Gamma slider to the rescue! No wait, I hated playing with the gamma slider. IRL, humans can see in a fairly large variance of light due to our rod-cone system. No game has been able to really capture that function in action, at least nothing much more than lens flare spam. But since this game is about robuts, it may not be appropriate here either.

Due to the round nature of planets, everyone is going to experience their own day/night cycle. If there's any gameplay impact, it could easily screw up the early game (welp, you have solar power and I don't, GG). Tying game elements to day/night could end up more trouble than it's worth.

However, tying ART elements to day/night is up for grabs. Make it look good!

Firstly, are you trying to say that they will light up all green? That means they are all radioactive right!??! (yes, I'm not being serious)

To be serious for a moment, I do agree that if such a system were to be put in place it should affect the economy of the game. Though, considering these planets are round, it shouldn't really be a cycle but something that is inevitable as the sunshine either approaches or leaves a part of the map to move on. Basically how the sun affects the Earth.

Night does not have to mean total darkness. I think nobody is gonna blame you if you just make it look a bit darker than day, but not too dark so everything is still visible.

Just from an eye-candy perspective it sounds fun to see lights turn on and of automatically, that's true.
But the some part within me dislikes the idea of those robots having searchlights. I'd rather have some kind of night-vision overlay on the night-side of a planet. Though that might be annoying after a while.

And the answer to said question is yes!

I think it would be awesome but only if it doesn't affect gameplay