Neat game idea: Day/Night Cycle

Croakjob·12/21/2016, 9:05:36 PM·22 votes·1,728 views

I don't even know where to start with this one! The introduction of a day/night cycle would add an incredible amount of variety to summoners rift as well as boats load of new interactive game play experiences. It concept it simple, after a few minutes the time would change from day to night thus reducing vision by a few units and changing up some mobs in the jungle(nocturnal jungle mobs is a rad example!). Vision wards would show a little less and it would create a feeling of unease with the possibility of ganks being that much more likely. What would make these changes so revolutionary to league would be all the balance changes, unique passives and spells, items and new trinkets, nocturnal jungle mobs(..perhaps plants), and a ton of other changes that would give league so much more to play around with. A few examples of this would be that Leona and Diana would gain unique passives based on the time of day, Nocturn would gain some sort of passive that would increase gambling pressure and Teemo is a scout so perhaps something for him would be that the fog of war he travels through or the wards he place would be unaffected by the reduced vision of the night for a certain duration of time. Items and wards would come out that would give better vision at night than day or vis versa, items such as Duskblade and Locket the iron Solari would work differently depending on the time of day, maybe there would be a pulsating ward that worked like reksais tremor sense. The changes that came during night wouldn't be crippling by any means! It would only very slightly reduce the vision of wards and perhaps slightly by the player. What makes these changes so exciting is all the room riot had to work with to make even more champions play and feel more unique and to add on to the overall environment of SR. Man this stuff gets me so excited and yes yes I am aware DOTA has a day night cycle it took with it from Warcraft thought I'm not sure how it works in their game. I'm also aware that this would takes tons of balance changes and lots of work with new visual changes and content added to the game. And most of all it would could reinvent the game as a whole but I think I would be what makes this so exciting. Anyways! Go ahead and comment and ideas of passives, spells, new champ concepts, items, jungle mobs or mob changes, or anything else that comes to mind that would fit this idea!

Ps: Writing was never my strong suit so please ignore any spelling or grammatic errors!

24 Comments

Valderis Vandala12/21/2016, 9:35:11 PM7 votes

If you're talking about a special game mode then sure go nuts that sounds like something special.

But not for the normal game please, I hate day/night cycles in games, I've yet to see a game not fuck itself over with this concept.

500000000000000012/21/2016, 10:17:54 PM6 votes

Sun ward and Moon ward would be really cool in addition to this. Makes an area as if it were daytime/nighttime. (Also, would like this as a rotating gamemode but not a regular SR)

Darth Sidiouss12/21/2016, 9:13:19 PM4 votes

Welcome to the league of legends boards where people down vote great ideas and then up vote the same idea months later. XD

Voidzilla12/22/2016, 2:06:18 AM3 votes

Maybe not a feature within the map itself, but perhaps a Champion whose passive makes the game transition from day to night. During each state, the Champion's abilities are altered and/or it affects everyone on the map somehow.

yoshi279012/21/2016, 9:16:54 PM3 votes

I would LOVE this as an actual game mode :O <3.

Not sure if it's a great idea for the ranked games, but it's definetly interesting.

Ahristocats12/21/2016, 9:10:02 PM3 votes

Nocturne ulti reset day/night timers

DarkRitual12/22/2016, 11:31:41 AM2 votes

I think just having a night-theme'd map would be better. Perhaps even a game mode if mechanics would be changing with it.

Unlucky4712/22/2016, 12:57:06 AM2 votes

I think it would be better for the Day/Night cycle to be in 30 minute intervals. This way the game isn't constantly shifting and you wouldn't have to worry about knowing all the items for day and night every single time. The map changes once and it would be a lot more simple.

Wild Loon12/21/2016, 9:06:40 PM2 votes

So LoL to Dota?

xomp12/22/2016, 5:38:50 PM1 votes

I can get behind such an idea. But only if the game stops for a few seconds for a box to come up and say "What a horrible night to have a curse" when transitioning to night time and "The morning sun has vanquished the horrible night" when transitioning to day time.

Gibberwatt12/21/2016, 9:08:31 PM1 votes

Me likey. upvoted

Valeckserai12/21/2016, 11:46:11 PM1 votes

As a rotating mode, I would love this. I don't think I would like it as much as a permanent addition though.

Stephen The G12/22/2016, 2:39:14 AM1 votes

lel look at dota 2 that game has it and its SOOO "BALANCED"

Bouncemaster Zac12/22/2016, 5:05:41 AM1 votes

Deadbreed has this, actually.

Víaggro12/22/2016, 1:36:41 PM1 votes

For a rotating game mode I think that sounds super fun!!! Not in regular normals though