Nightstalking.
 

Last night a player named COS® submitted an idea through feedback and I thought I would share it.

The basic premise is that we have a day-night system and this has been already discussed at length. However, the guy elaborated a little further on it. During the night here are no guards protecting regions or safe-zones. Because of this, everywhere is essentially a pk-zone and a free for all. Not only would there be PKers ravaging the streets, but there would be an increase of baddies roaming the world. There would be certain areas that would only be accessible during the night such as areas that are usually guarded opening up for exploration and questing. Etc etc etc.

Obviously he's just elapsed a little on having a day-night system, but I really love the idea of the world map being entirely PK during night. It makes sense, it gives people a specific timeframe in which PKing is everywhere, and I think as a whole the idea is very immersive. We lost the battle for making the world map permanently a pk-zone and this seems like the best solution that has been suggested so far.

Your thoughts?

That actually sounds like a hell of a fun idea. How would the day/night system be implemented, though? Would there just be one universal nighttime for every time zone?

6 hours in a 'Graal day' probably.

Well you are development staff and you already know players wanted day/night system..and I'm sure lot will love this idea, so make this happen :3

That seems legit. Just don't do it as the weather system on iEra. Raining 5 mins, sun 5 mins, and so on.

Ya and I'm also the person who made Graal City a pk zone and we all seen how that turned out.

Love the idea.

love it. can be funny to see it in action, aswell to create it

Its good to try stuff out, else you'll never know how it would turn out.
The only people who didn't like graal city pk was the afkers and virtual dating players... Much more would rather see gameplay than sit around doing nothing on a game.

Sounds like a good idea. Maybe 20 minutes of day, 20 minutes of night per cycle?

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Something like this would be nice.

That's a good example. It would probably be one hour morning, two hours day, one hour evening, one hour night, one hour late night. The last two would be pk. You'd end up with four days per real day, 4 hours of day and 2 hours of night.

Amazing idea, love it

Hmm, I would probably make night time a little shorter. One hour seems like around the max for night in my opinion, as two hours of pk free for all might cause the same effect as permanent free for all. Two hours is a long time for a game and it will end up being 8 hours per real day of being free for all Pk.

4 days for every real day sounds great. Love the idea.

This is a really good idea rufus you should try it out if it turns out good or not

"Trying" out free PK is pretty easy. "Trying" a full day/night system is not as easy and takes way more effort to make it happen... having it shot down by Stefan afterwards would blow.

Yeah, sounds fun. Turns Graal into a survival game xD

Nice idea COS!

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would forts still be full pk?

I reckon. The only safe places are inside shops, resteraunts etc.

Perhaps those useless inside levels will actually become of use when the PK period comes around.

I think it would be better if it was "Graal Night" when it isn't Night in real life, so people like me, who are 12 and younger that have 'bedtimes' could still get some PK's in during the day.

Great idea.

amazing idea.

Damn, this would actually make the game have a really cool edge, kind of like the graal city being all pk area, but only at night, I like it.

Sounds like a fantastic idea. It would definitely give players more to do and it would be cool to see a day/night zone. I support this idea.

Great idea. I would love for this to be implemented.

There are different time zones. Having it 6 hours per Graal day is a good idea and pretty much balanced for everyone

As the sickly white sun began to set beneath the tower, the guards began to slowly subside and submit to the darkness. The legion of Baddies began to arrise and slash out at citizens. Creating chaos in all the land. The wicked warriors began to spill the blood of the righteous, in what was once a sanctuary of peace and property laid ruins and death.

The flames of the heart of Graal were extinguished. And so were the minds of the sane, corrupting the citizens into the carnage and frenzy amongst the damned legions. Only few seek shelter in what was a safe area before. Their eyes were wide open, for they knew darkness would await either way.

Dare you combat the legions of baddies and your corrupted fellow Graalians? Or do you join the ranks amongst the murderers, thieves and th-

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very cool idea 100% agree with it

this is good.

make the day/night cycle in general that alone is a good idea. Then try the free for all pk at night times after the fact. at the very least we will have a day/night cycle that we can use to have different types of quests, hidden areas, etc

I really like the day/night system... I support this.

I'd recommend 3 and a third, or 3 and a quarter, or some sort of mixed number for the number of graal days per 24 hours, as this would allow the time of "late night" to change day to day. It'd kinda be a pain in the ass to only be able to play during the day, or vice versa.

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i reallllly like this idea... :/ but this game is worldwide. i bet the japanese wouldnt enjoy playing with a darkened screen, no safe zones, and more baddies everyday when its daytime for them.

You're not very good at comprehending things, are you?

The guards are already all inside. PK FOR ALL!!!!

Whoa! My entire brain just skidded to a stop. If at night, it's as laggy as deadwood is usually, I want none of this. And if Deadwood is any darker, it might as well be a black screen. I struggle to see the entirety of Deadwood, the caves, and Snowtown fort usually, so I'm not really sure I'm too keen on this idea anymore.

That idea....it is....AMAZING. Things would be much more fun with a free-for-all time for PKing, as well as new things that can only be accessed at night. Another benefit of this idea is that it would discourage pointlessly AFKing in Graal City for virtual dating and begging for money or getting hours. Sure, they could still AFK during the day and indoors, but that's far less annoying to look at than having them sit there non-stop advertising how single and desperate they are or how they can't be like normal people and farm/buy gralat packs/do the pyrat quest. The only possible downside I can see with this is what Pazx brought up, since in certain places it may lag up or be too dark to see.(I'm looking at you, Deadwood.) If that problem can somehow be resolved, then this idea is perfect for implementation. I think I'll congratulate the person mentioned in the first post next time I log into iClassic.

If you're experiencing lag because of the night effect, chances are you're on a very old iPod. Most games are phasing out support for the older iPod's because of its very restrictive hardware... why should Graal limit itself?

It's just nice to be considerate of those with older hardware/software. Of course, Graal shouldn't limit itself, but some of its players may not have the latest in Apple hardware, so they should still be considered.

There's considered, and then there's completely gimping and holding itself back to cater to players with 5+ year-old hardware. I think Graal has done a pretty good job taking into consideration the hardware of older generation iPod's, but to ditch a great and immersive idea like this that's getting a lot of good feedback simply because some players don't have better hardware is silly.

Not implementing an idea because of certain players not having the latest hardware would be completely idiotic. When taking into account how good this idea is, as well as player demand for something new to do, there is no reason this idea should not be put into action. Sure, the AFKers I mentioned might complain, BUT NO ONE CARES ABOUT THEM. Aside from that, I'm sure most Graal players have the necessary hardware for this idea to run smoothly(or not. Someone should do a survey on this or something.) Considering players with older hardware most likely make a minority of the playerbase, it is no reason to hold back Graal and good ideas for it.

Sounds like a neat idea :D

This idea is amazing! Sadly I'm sure a large portion of the community would complain like when graal city was pk. This is a major change and would completely change classic. I like it, but convincing stefan to allow it would be difficult.

solution to hardware dilemma: have an option to disable lighting.

The problem with this route is that it gives other people the advantage of being able to see better, and everyone would just turn off lighting.

This reminds me of how in Assassins creed it would be nightime and templar stalkers would try and kill you. I agree with the idea but I know a lot won't.

I see nothing wrong with that. The staff should be able to implement this well enough so that it looks fantastic and people would only choose to disable it due to hardware issues.