Night time

[Skyekelguard]

Can you not add an option to sleep through the night if we choose. You can disable it for hoard night. But waiting through the night causes a lot of my friends to stop playing. It’s useless unless we are going out on night missions.

 

[Javabean867]

Then go out on night missions! Night time is also perfect to gether resources, hunt and build. At your home base create a screamer heard bas as well. Elevated platform, with enough blocks to stop her from coming in.

Remember in the is game time is a major resource. if you aren't using it, you will not be ready for the hoard at the end of the week.

 

[Treb]

Past the first day, there's usually plenty to do during the night. Organizing loot, crafting stuff, mining and when you're equipped enough you can just go out.

 

[InfiniteWarrior]

Can you not add an option to sleep through the night if we choose. You can disable it for hoard night. But waiting through the night causes a lot of my friends to stop playing. It’s useless unless we are going out on night missions.

Unless I miss my guess, time passes the same for everyone on a server, so even if a sleep mechanic were added, it wouldn't actually pass/speed up the night in a timeframe of your choosing as in single players, but just allow you to "rest" and/or awkwardly watch/listen to your avatar sleep and snore as in other multiplayer games while time passes as normal. The night would be the same length and you'd have to wait it out regardless, iow, because not everyone on the server would be sleeping the same time as you. Unless I further miss my guess, you're playing on a 'server," i.e. your own computer, whether playing alone or in a group. There is no single player mode separate from a multiplayer mode in which a sleep/pass time mechanic could be implemented for a single person. You're playing a multiplayer game even if you're going it alone. I'm sure a game world setting could be added for a server, but then everyone's avatar would become narcoleptic and fall over when sleepy time rolls around regardless what they might be doing.

I'm sure someone will correct me if wrong. Waiting it out sucks if you don't have anything to do, i.e. you've leveled up, upgraded your weapons, cooked some food and attended to various other household duties, maybe picked off some zombies or a deer that's wandered by or something. I don't want to deal with ferals the first couple of nights myself, but I can usually find something to do with myself, including making brief forays out for water or resources without necessarily tackling ferals. If you're playing with friends, not sure why you wouldn't be able to dispatch them handily, but when it comes to day/night cycles, my characters and avatars usually go out during the day because I don't see that well in the dark. If all else fails, you can shorten the night or possibly eliminate it altogether. Not going check the settings for nighttime length right now.

 

[Riamus]

InfiniteWarrior explained it well. It just isn't likely to happen.

But night isn't any reason not to play. You can do everything at night that you can do during the day other than only being able to visit the traders. You can still complete any quests you already have (night or otherwise) and you can have quests from multiple traders at the same time. With multiple players, you can each have quests that you can work on together. Night can be finished before you finish your quests if you get some quests ahead of time. And beyond quests, you can do whatever you do during the day... scavenge, mine, build, etc. Night isn't a reason to stop playing the game normally. A new player might find nights to be too difficult for them, but with a little experience behind them, nights aren't difficult.

 

[Suxar]

The first nights in the game are quite fun. On a dedicated server, I often log out and go make tea and do other things. In single-player, I'm usually busy transferring the day's loot to base.

A lot depends on where you're playing and who you're playing with. If I suddenly have nothing to do in a single-player game at night, I can simply speed up time. But lately, I rarely do that, although I used to resort to such methods often at first.