Dark Astoria - leave the street lights on!
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Luminara,
Posted on: 2009-08-14 18:26 in Suggestions and Ideas
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It would also make it impossible to discern when it was night, and thus impossible to determine when the masks were spawning (they spawn much, much more frequently at night than during the day), which would then make it much more difficult to hunt down and defeat the required number of masks for the BP defeat badge.|
Originally Posted by SixOClock
A minor QoL suggestion for Dark Astoria - if the street lights were left on all day as well as at night, it would make it much less painful to travel around the zone.
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Lights off during the day, thank you.
Yeah so far as the zone knows it's still day and night. The creepy stuff INHABITING the zone know it's day or night. Just us... we get fog. 
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A minor QoL suggestion for Dark Astoria - if the street lights were left on all day as well as at night, it would make it much less painful to travel around the zone.
I noticed this as night fell while I was wandering around there earlier - because the lights show up at a much greater distance through the fog than the buildings and stuff normally do, they can give you just enough points of reference to keep yourself oriented, and enough depth perception to help avoid constantly running in to buildings (especially when trying to teleport around in there... ugh). It really doesn't detract from the atmosphere of the zone at all either - it's still all spooky and mysterious, because you still don't get all the details of what's around you until you get right up close, since the lights only illuminate a very small area around them.
No idea how big a coding change this would require, and it's only a very minor issue, but DA is such a cool and under-utilised zone that it might be nice to have one less reason for people to avoid it...