+1

Then add night vision goggles as an equipment slot.

+1,but they kind of have this already. The missions spawn with different times of day, and, at least on earth, the sun's position doesn't change much during the length of a mission.

Those paying attention will notice that we never have actual night missions, just dusk. Considering how dark the maps are during this time, I vote for some form of night vision prior to true night missions.

Wouldn't it be cool to have Day/Night cycles in Dust?
Considering planets are going to be persistent.

I think it'd be awesome if the time of day for the match was the same as server time. If it is 0300 server time, then you've got a night match, if it's 1400 server time, then you're fighting in daylight.

It would be nice, but not gonna happen due to the fact that the planets in new eden don't rotate. For there to be a day/night cycle, the planets need to turn.
Maybe one day they will make it so they do, but until then it won't happen.

^ this idea is more do-able

Have to admit i do like night battles.

However in reality considering how many planets we are meant to be fighting on eventually, i would find it very odd if every planet was locked into the same day night cycle, just drawing from real world, planets would have differant timed orbits and days etc, so would make more sense if it was more a random spread of day and night battles.

By all means have a day/night 24 hour cycle for each planet, but have them seeded at
random times of day. So you may be fighting on one planet in a day time battle, an hour later your on a differant planet thats night time etc.

But then If districts are spread all over a planet, you could be fighting day and night battles on the same planet within a matter of minutes in any case.

...Why do they need to turn.
Its not like CCP is simulating the sun hitting the planet from AU's away, its just a light source.
I don't care if its night time in Dust but in reality the area we're playing in, in EVE is facing the sun.
The "This is more doable" comment is exactly what I meant, only maybe it should be faster because players will have to wake up midnight to attack at dawn for example.
Everyone should be given an equal chance.

Considering the number of planets and systems not all of them are going to be synced nor would mapping them all to static cycles likely be worth the development run time. The basic idea however is quite a good one and I concur, as such I'd suggest the following.

CCP introduce more diversity in the lighting and day/night time rendering of maps allowing "time of day" to be one of the dynamically generated features of a map upon loading a match.

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Good point, why not assign each planet a TZ and then have a "GMT" for that planet conform to the current conditions for that TZ IRL?

Then for different districts on the same planet, you'd just need to know what planetary TZ it was in that district and compare it with the IRL time in the "GMT" district.