Originally Posted by
twister
I think there is a lot of confusion on "Night Mode" - the original requests for a "Night Mode" was almost at the beginning of the game, when they wanted the times of day to actually change characteristics in the game - like during night, goblins could raid more since they would be stealtier, or Archer Towers would have lower range due to sight issues, skeleton traps did more damage, but during the day towers could shoot longer or wizards harvest sun rays to be more powerful those types of things.
I can tell you in some early meetings (circa 2012) I had conversations with the dev at the time detailing all the ideas from the forumers, but it became a logistical nightmare. Most users wanted it to correlate to their own time zone, so if you're US East coast, it was "Night" say 9pm - 6am, problem is - that is daytime for other time zones - so someone could end up playing day during their night or night during their day, etc. Was too hard. They toyed with the idea of simply using GMT times, problem is still the fact that some time zones would be opposite their own actual day/night and some would always play with one advantage or the other.
I don't think the devs were against having the villages actually display day and night (with no game play changes) I wouldn't call that game related anyhow - but the actual variables the users were asking for during day/night sequences were too hard to deal with, and players could game the system by changing times/locations on their devices, etc. Plus back in this time, the devs were dealing with the early builds of things like TH9/10/11, heroes, spells, DE troops, etc that they had on their road map, and something like a graphical-only change, or something of this nature was pretty much dismissed due to "Better fish to fry".
The other issues in the early days of the game (pre Android) is Apple at that time had a 50MB limit on WiFi download size and we were at like 46-48MB. In order to represent night time, all the graphics would need to be doubled to include a nighttime object (it isn't as simple as just dimming the screen as someone said) which would have put us over the limit.
So... I don't think nighttime will come to your village as you know it.
