All of the planets in EVE do rotate... well almost all. All except temperate planets. When we introduced districts we had to stop the temperate planets from rotating. This is kind of why linking day/night to the planets actual rotation is maybe not the best of ideas right now, districts would be always day or always night. eh. We do want to fix it though.

All of the planets in EVE do rotate... well almost all. All except temperate planets. When we introduced districts we had to stop the temperate planets from rotating. This is kind of why linking day/night to the planets actual rotation is maybe not the best of ideas right now, districts would be always day or always night. eh. We do want to fix it though.

We can do scarier things than a dislike button.

Ask Soundwave.

For those wondering why the interview says we are doing it and I am saying we are not:

There was possibly a bit of miscommunication about exactly what was being done, and what we want to do in the future. We want to link day/night cycles to a planets actual rotation, but not yet.

As for just some kind of random day/night for matches, that is not something I would be working on so can not comment.

You could always make it follow GMT for the tears of everyone that will always play in the dark (no phun intended) and the tears of the cloak ninjas that will always be spotted in the sun

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For those wondering why the interview says we are doing it and I am saying we are not:

There was possibly a bit of miscommunication about exactly what was being done, and what we want to do in the future. We want to link day/night cycles to a planets actual rotation, but not yet.

As for just some kind of random day/night for matches, that is not something I would be working on so can not comment.

Have to agree with Liner here, but go further and say that you guys really need to reconsider why you are allowing your marketing team to dig you such a whole.

They have consistently oversold the game, and continue to do so. Unless you want people to be constantly disappointed by the new stuff you guys make, then please stop letting your marketing department write checks that your coders can't cash. All your hard work then gets slagged off because the stuff that the devs were never even working on isn't in the build like the marketing guys promised.

And if they refuse to stop overselling the game, fire them. If they can't stop doing damage to your companies credibility, you need to find marketing people who will sell your actual product, not the daydreams from brainstorming sessions as completed features.

Except this wasn't the marketing team's doing, it was the Chief Technology Officer, the number one person at CCP who should know what the programming and developers are capable of.