Poll about the day/night issues.

[Toppopia]

This is a poll about the current topic of what length night and day should be and whether there will be timezones and whether night should be shorter than days.

Please choose only 1 option for the length of days, then please only pick 1 of the yes and no questions for each question so nothing weird happens with the results.

I would have had more length options but i was at maximum number of options and i was saving space.

And please no complaining about this being a bad poll, because i saw no one else trying to make one.

[Soothsayer]

I hope I voted right!

I want to have ample opportunity the see night and day so it needs to cycle through so that different night/day patterns are offset with with when I'm playing.

[EDIT: That is to say, offset from a regular schedule assuming a person plays at the same time of night on a regular basis.]

[Vancha]

Shouldn't it be 3.5-7 and 9-23?

To the people who voted nights should be as long as days - why? Did you vote for a short day as a whole?

Maybe the reason no one else was making it a poll was because it wouldn't be useful as one? We have a thread full of nuanced answers, that in itself seems like as good a poll as you'll get, but I guess we'll see.

[capiqu]

Nice you managed to get all 3 in.

[Sifer2]

I want to say Night should be shorter than Day. But then if they have different time zones I guess it wouldn't matter. You could just go somewhere it was daytime if you wanted that. But then again one advantage of the shorter night also would be so that it wouldn't always be day or night at the same time in the real world each day. Which might be annoying for players who only get to play at certain times of day.

[Toppopia]

Originally Posted by Sifer2

I want to say Night should be shorter than Day. But then if they have different time zones I guess it wouldn't matter. You could just go somewhere it was daytime if you wanted that. But then again one advantage of the shorter night also would be so that it wouldn't always be day or night at the same time in the real world each day. Which might be annoying for players who only get to play at certain times of day.

Thats why the length of sunrise to sunrise needs to be and odd number to the 24 hour cycle we have. So that when people log on it will be different almost everytime, someone said that 7 hours is good because everytime you log in a week its different, but once 7 real life days has passed, the cycle starts again.

[Toppopia]

Originally Posted by Vancha

Shouldn't it be 3.5-7 and 9-23?

To the people who voted nights should be as long as days - why? Did you vote for a short day as a whole?

Maybe the reason no one else was making it a poll was because it wouldn't be useful as one? We have a thread full of nuanced answers, that in itself seems like as good a poll as you'll get, but I guess we'll see.

oops, i forgot to change the 7-23 to a 9. oh well, people should beable to notice, its only a difference of 2 hours and its such a large gap that i wouldn't affect people's choices.

[Stardouser]

The only thing wrong with the poll is that 3.5 to 9 hours is a long spread. I think a 5 hour day/night is right. In any event the day night cycle should vary from one continent to another and, it should be an odd number. Why should it be an odd number? That way it will vary a bit from day to day, so no one has a situation where they can only play from 9PM EST to 11PM EST on any given day and they always see night or day.
Edit: Actually, to make it an odd cycle, I guess it would have to be a 4.5 hour day/4.5 hour night cycle, right?

[Xyntech]

3.5 - 9 hours

Different time zones on each continent

I am undecided if day and night should be different lengths, so I didn't vote

[Toppopia]

Hmm, i did forget an undecided option.

[Xyntech]

Originally Posted by Toppopia

Hmm, i did forget an undecided option.

Nah it's cool. I just didn't feel strongly so I didn't vote on that part.

Let them who think they know what they want make a choice.

Undecided is more useful on single answer polls I think.

[capiqu]

Well so far it shows that :

1. 80% feel more then 7 hours is to much
2. 93% like different time zones for conts.
3. Length of day or night cycles almost even.

[Toppopia]

Even after 30 minutes this poll has been very informative. Maybe a poll after beta has been out for a month to see if anyone has changed their mind or think its good.

[Vagabond]

I think the length of day/night should depend on a continent's location and the type of environment the planet is (note that I have never played Planetside, so I don't know if there are different planets and whatnot), as it is with the real world. If I remember correctly, the night lasts much longer the more northward you go on Earth, so it should be something like that.

[Mechzz]

Originally Posted by Vagabond

I think the length of day/night should depend on a continent's location and the type of environment the planet is (note that I have never played Planetside, so I don't know if there are different planets and whatnot), as it is with the real world. If I remember correctly, the night lasts much longer the more northward you go on Earth, so it should be something like that.

Different time-zones for different continents was confirmed somewhere, at least it's lodged in my mind.

Both daylight and darkness vary over the year the further north you go. Where I live it's dark by 4pm mid-winter but light until 11pm mid-summer.

I'm agnostic on exact length of daylight, should be long enough to make night-ops worthwhile is all.