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Have You Ever Been to Starfleet Academy AT Night?

buzzoutbuzzout Member Posts: 119 Arc User
edited January 2013 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Me neither. I've been to the Academy on many many occasions and then one time while I was there it dawned on me...it's always daytime at Starfleet Academy! How could this be? Has the Earth of the future ceased to spin on its axis? Did all those infernal combustion engines we drove in the 20th and 21rst centuries stop the Earth dead in its tracks? I had to know. So I beamed up to my ship and flew an orbit around the Earth and noted which continents were in light and which were in darkness. I repeated this again about twelve hours later and discovered that indeed the Earth has stopped rotating! But that isn't the truly puzzling part. The west coast of the USA was in darkness and as we all know Starfleet is in San Francisco. So I beamed down to the Academy to check it out and sure enough...daytime! What strange phenomenon could be causing this? How could the western seaboard of North America be in darkness yet San Francisco be in daylight? My mind boggled. Could it be Q TRIBBLE with our heads? Maybe some evil plot by the Klingons? Or maybe a new but yet undiscovered black hole is bending the sun's rays around the planet.

...or maybe it's just STO being sloppy with the details.
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  • cmdrscarletcmdrscarlet Member Posts: 5,137 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Interesting. Never noticed before.

    Meh.
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  • trahltrahl Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    During World War Three, the Eastern Coalition was repeatedly bombarded by nuclear warheads which caused a localized Nuclear winter over the region. In an attempt to correct the issue, they developed nanomachines that would dissipate the cloud. The machines quickly went out of control without any sort of shut down switch built in and tore away the upper atmosphere. As a result the sky was torn away and the world was bathed in constant starlight (more on this later).
    Later, or parallel in time, remnants of the Augments attempted to create a final symbol of their superiority by controlling the rise and fall of the sun using hyper efficient tectonic regulators. Unfortunately, once they stopped the rotation of the core (and the planet itself), they were unable to get it to start again without flinging every man, woman, child, tree, building, car, etc left at near the speed of sound.

    In the end, the Eastern Coalition wound up missing nuclear winter as they were constantly under the direct shine of the sun.
    On the other side of the planet, namely America, a great fortune was spent constructing a holographic matrix that would serve to simulate blue sky and sun as well as generate heat for the shaded hemisphere. Of course, it was plenty expensive then so they only managed to cover about half of the former united states.
    More recently, copies of significant places in earth's past like Paris France and the Picard Farm were rebuilt in southern california.
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  • centersolacecentersolace Member Posts: 11,178 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    That's only cause Hathon is the only location in STO with a Day/Night Cycle.
  • azurianstarazurianstar Member Posts: 6,985 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    People easily forget we saw San Fran at night in Star Trek III and in Voyager Endgame (which was before STO).

    Anyhow, give Cryptic time to set up the day / night cycle. I recall they have an interest, just lack the time to work on it.
  • trahltrahl Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    azurianstar wrote: »
    People easily forget we saw San Fran at night in Star Trek III and in Voyager Endgame (which was before STO).

    Anyhow, give Cryptic time to set up the day / night cycle. I recall they have an interest, just lack the time to work on it.

    The holographic generators were temporarily disabled because a ship hit them.

    In both cases it was Voyager.
  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    The also showed San Fran at night in ENTERPRISE.
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  • logicalspocklogicalspock Member Posts: 836 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    azurianstar wrote: »
    People easily forget we saw San Fran at night in Star Trek III and in Voyager Endgame (which was before STO).

    Anyhow, give Cryptic time to set up the day / night cycle. I recall they have an interest, just lack the time to work on it.

    Yeah, but Starfleet Academy is in Marin, not San Francisco.:D
  • kalvorax#3775 kalvorax
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    edited January 2013
    Dont forget with all the terraforming (if it actually happened) why didn't they change the Saharan Desert into a metal rain forest?...if you go look out the windows of ESD at, i think, the tailor or the exchange booth.. its still there XD
  • baudlbaudl Member Posts: 4,060 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    wouldn't surprise me if a dev would come in here and write: "working as intended"
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  • azurianstarazurianstar Member Posts: 6,985 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    logicalspock wrote: »
    Yeah, but Starfleet Academy is in Marin, not San Francisco.:D

    Yeah, but Starfleet Command is in San Francisco.

    And I'm pretty sure they are in the same time zone. ;)
  • tobar26thtobar26th Member Posts: 799 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    I'm lost...is this thread debating whether San Francisco has a night time? Of course it does...the game just doesn't have the tech built into the map to show it. Sure they can do it, just whether they will or not.
  • zerobangzerobang Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    buzzout wrote: »
    Me neither. I've been to the Academy on many many occasions and then one time while I was there it dawned on me...it's always daytime at Starfleet Academy! How could this be? Has the Earth of the future ceased to spin on its axis? Did all those infernal combustion engines we drove in the 20th and 21rst centuries stop the Earth dead in its tracks? I had to know. So I beamed up to my ship and flew an orbit around the Earth and noted which continents were in light and which were in darkness. I repeated this again about twelve hours later and discovered that indeed the Earth has stopped rotating! But that isn't the truly puzzling part. The west coast of the USA was in darkness and as we all know Starfleet is in San Francisco. So I beamed down to the Academy to check it out and sure enough...daytime! What strange phenomenon could be causing this? How could the western seaboard of North America be in darkness yet San Francisco be in daylight? My mind boggled. Could it be Q TRIBBLE with our heads? Maybe some evil plot by the Klingons? Or maybe a new but yet undiscovered black hole is bending the sun's rays around the planet.

    ...or maybe it's just STO being sloppy with the details.

    it is all just a HOLODECK simulation! :D
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  • darthstormstrikedarthstormstrike Member Posts: 771 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Khan did it.


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  • drudgydrudgy Member Posts: 367 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Don't go to the Academy at night. I hear rumors that once a year it goes dark for 30 days and salt vampires slaughter and kill everyone.

    Or was that some movie with Josh Hartnett.... :)
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  • cdrgadleycdrgadley Member Posts: 145 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    I think adding a nighttime would ruin the environment and atmosphere that the Starfleet Academy currently gives.

    It's a nice break from the darkness of space.
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  • azurianstarazurianstar Member Posts: 6,985 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    drudgy wrote: »
    Don't go to the Academy at night. I hear rumors that once a year it goes dark for 30 days and salt vampires slaughter and kill everyone.

    Or was that some movie with Josh Hartnett.... :)

    There's an idea.

    At night NPCs disappear with an occasional Security Officer staying at their post. And a rare "apparition" that appears to be a security guard, until you get close and turns into something scary!

    Be one heck of an event for Halloween. ;)
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