Server Resetting Time of Day

[Suno_Regin]

Every time the server crashes, the time of day gets reset back to 12 AM...I find this really annoying, as night already lasts longer than day as it is, every time I stand in Hydlaa it's nearly pitch black. It'd be nice if, when the server crashes, it resets to 12 PM instead...I hate not being able to see where I'm going most of the time. Can't there be any lights at all around town so I can at least see my way up the stairs to the tavern or something? If not planning on making day last at least as long as night, can't what was done for the sewers (made lighter by little candles and such hanging on the walls) be done to Hydlaa?

[Raa]

I like the idea.

I also like the idea of some sort of mobile light source for people to carry around, such as a torch or lantern, but that is: 

[Suno_Regin]

I still don't see what's hard about making a mobile light source. Take something from the sewer wall for example, and make it into a weapon that you can hold. It would generate a small amount of light...but yeah, it's been suggested a lot already, and it's not something I really care for at the moment. I just wanna know why a town's so dark, and why they like to keep it dark 24/7 by the server crashing and resetting the moment it starts to get a little brighter. =/

[Lanarel]

I still don't see what's hard about making a mobile light source. Take something from the sewer wall for example, and make it into a weapon that you can hold. It would generate a small amount of light...but yeah, it's been suggested a lot already, and it's not something I really care for at the moment. I just wanna know why a town's so dark, and why they like to keep it dark 24/7 by the server crashing and resetting the moment it starts to get a little brighter. =/

I think the lighting from fixed lights on the surroundings is computing when ''(re-)lighting the maps' and can take several hours for some maps on fast computers. I can understand why a moving light in that sense would be something difficult, even if it only lights somewhat locally.

[Mordaan]

Just walk around casting flame spire.   
Even that doesn't really provide lighting very far. 
And ooh, after torches add pitchforks and we really have a setting for some good RP.   

[neko kyouran]

*** 2007-11-08 by Sasha Levin

- Game time is now saved between server restarts (and crashes).