Day & Night - the next tactical element

Team, long time reader first time poster.

I've been thinking about what I'd like to see lately in CoC to jazz things up, so of course my first stop was to the recommendations sections. I was eager to find this on the currently listed ideas or at least on the ruled out ones. Surely I'm not the first to conceive this fairly simple idea?

Alas, the lists suggest maybe I am. SO! To the idea.

A dark wizard, turned from his sworn faith of defending his village, tired on the ongoing wars, exiles himself to explore what dark and mysterious magic he can create. One fateful night, he conjures a beast of darkness that he cannot control, so to save his own life he enchants the dark beast and sends him to the skies where he can plague the world every 6 hours, forming what we know as night and day!

Pros
- Asthetics; everything always looks better at night all lit up
- tactics; night could influence a number of different elements to attacking and defending, from troop paths, visibility, building priority, new spells for visibility, new troops for visibility or strengths at night (did anyone say warewolves?)
- adds a new dimension to your game play. For those who sit on the game a fair bit, if it is changing day and night it gives us something interesting to work with every few hrs, by breaking up what we're looking at and thinking about our strategy in the game.

Cons
- Supercells work load


Imagine having ing to now consider entirely new strategies for different cycles of night and day.. Wars could have the same thing too, meaning that timezones are NOT the only element that dictates people's attack times, but also the games day and night cycle.

I look forward to people's thoughts.

Cheers

sounds great would love to see this implemented into the game I think it would add a good element to the game

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Originally Posted by Raptor23

sounds great would love to see this implemented into the game I think it would add a good element to the game

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Glad to have one who agrees!

When a chinese raids a european or an american....what will it be? the daylight of one side of the world or the night on the other?

This would be a really neat addition to the game, but it would have to be set to the server time. Call it CST(Clash Standard Time).

This is worked really well in another game, but I think it is against the rules to say which.

I dont think I would want day/night or climate (rain/snow) to affect game play - but I do think it would be fun if those elements were taken into account just for fun.

If you attacked at night, the camp would be darker but you would still see everything. Maybe the troops would deploy differently - each with headlamps on to light their way. For weather differences maybe troops could deploy in weather gear as appropriate.

But ultimately, I do not think game play should be impacted.

As for what would happen if a Chinese person attacked a US person - if it was night time here they would be attacking a night time camp. In other words, the time of day should respect the depending camps time zone.

Fun idea.

It is a very good idea , but implementing such idea would require a change in the basic coding of the game. So chances are very low....

Nothing like dreaming big? It's low chance, but let's think seriously about the evolution of where the game can go? More dark troops, sure.. Maybe more heros? not much else you can throw in from an obvious point.. So I figure the next changes would need to see them change it fairly seriously..

my idea definitely would revolve around a Clash Std time.. Or GMT i spouse.. Either way, it would need to be universal..

i really like the idea, and if people think its too dark, let those thorches have a bigger light effect when its dark and maybe more light decoration? would make it more cooler to look at abd the people who think its too dark can place lots of torches .

I would love to see this feature implemented into a future update, however, it would take a lot of work to code all the buildings and towers to have a night-time effect. I'm also concerned about the transition from day to night, would it gradually turn darker as you play or it changes immediately when you go on your account at a specific time? It's a nice thought, but I can't see this happening soon due to all the more important things that need to be updated, maybe in the future though, who knows!

I think this is a really good idea and this should be added in the next update. The game can ask your time and accordingly adjust the village looks. Or it can just adjust with your time zone.

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Originally Posted by Connor55526

I think this is a really good idea and this should be added in the next update. The game can ask your time and accordingly adjust the village looks. Or it can just adjust with your time zone.

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Interesting way to look at it.. Adjust based on TZ.. Only drama being if they took the route of troops reacting to the dark, it'd be hard to strategise prior to attacking.. Might be too many variables

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Originally Posted by skinMAN26

Team, long time reader first time poster.

I've been thinking about what I'd like to see lately in CoC to jazz things up, so of course my first stop was to the recommendations sections. I was eager to find this on the currently listed ideas or at least on the ruled out ones. Surely I'm not the first to conceive this fairly simple idea?

Alas, the lists suggest maybe I am. SO! To the idea.

A dark wizard, turned from his sworn faith of defending his village, tired on the ongoing wars, exiles himself to explore what dark and mysterious magic he can create. One fateful night, he conjures a beast of darkness that he cannot control, so to save his own life he enchants the dark beast and sends him to the skies where he can plague the world every 6 hours, forming what we know as night and day!

Pros
- Asthetics; everything always looks better at night all lit up
- tactics; night could influence a number of different elements to attacking and defending, from troop paths, visibility, building priority, new spells for visibility, new troops for visibility or strengths at night (did anyone say warewolves?)
- adds a new dimension to your game play. For those who sit on the game a fair bit, if it is changing day and night it gives us something interesting to work with every few hrs, by breaking up what we're looking at and thinking about our strategy in the game.

Cons
- Supercells work load


Imagine having ing to now consider entirely new strategies for different cycles of night and day.. Wars could have the same thing too, meaning that timezones are NOT the only element that dictates people's attack times, but also the games day and night cycle.

I look forward to people's thoughts.

Cheers

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Dark troops that rely on night for bonus stats is a really cool idea. They are DARK troops after all

I think it would be a matter of preparation to attack villages at night or at daytime. Opens a new path to dozens (or even hundreds) of new updates with spells and troops. I think that changing every six hours wouldn't be the best option, since we would have two "days" in one, but it sounds awesome!

Dark troops indeed! think, the new hounds could be like light sources!

The Timezone problem is easily solved. Run CoC with 10 hours daytime and 10 hours night and add a sun/moon icon to the screen showing when the next transition takes place. This means that nobody benefits from permanent daytime or permanent night. Also, it only needs 20 new icons which isn't a big deal.

I'd suggest that the basic units up to wall breakers remain unchanged, so that newbies don't have to worry about whether they are fighting by day or night. Beyond that units could have stats which change depending on the day/night setting. So, units made with dark elixir are stronger by night, but weaker in the daytime. Conversely, units made from regular elixir would be stronger in the daytime.

The final twist is to add two new (and expensive) high level wizards, Shadowlords radiate darkness forcing nearby units to use their nighttime stats, and Lightbringers do the opposite. When they meet they immediately cancel with a bang (easier than doing the maths to determine whether squares are dark or light).

The real problem with this idea is the sheer amount of new animations required. Every single unit, terrain tile and building would need a second set of animations. That's a huge amount of work which wouldn't generate significant profits.

So in summary, it's a great idea but there are more profitable things that the Supercell team could be doing.

Just my thoughts,

Keith.

But what about the timezones if it is as you say and has such a big effect on strategies and a new branch if visibility gameplay what if a person in a different timezone where it is night trains a night army and half the people he comes across in the match finding are in daytime?

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Originally Posted by olo223

But what about the timezones if it is as you say and has such a big effect on strategies and a new branch if visibility gameplay what if a person in a different timezone where it is night trains a night army and half the people he comes across in the match finding are in daytime?

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I think the idea is that timezones don't matter. Supercell could set it so every few hours it changes for everyone. Like in Minecraft, every ( I think ) 20mins it swaps from daytime to nighttime. Supercell could could make it the same except every few hours instead of 20mins