Is there some way to fast forward until morning / noon / evening? I don't really want to explore these lovely maps in pitch darkness unless there's a good reason to do so, but I seem to be stuck in a cycle of waking up from a rest or walking out of a dungeon to find it's nighttime.

Bump

I don't think there is but it'd be a great feature to patch in.

LoL, places like Caed Nua are much more atmospheric at nighttime, imho

Another great feature we lost from BG series, true.

This should surely be easy to add? Like resting but without the....rest

It'd be very nice to have!

 

EDIT: Of course, it may be problematic in regards to the Stronghold.

Edited March 28, 201510 yr by Starwars

Another great feature we lost from BG series, true.

Uh, yeah, the good ole "advance time" feature from... the BG series. Of all the features BG didn't have but we are going to pretend it did, this one is among my favorites!

 

Another great feature we lost from BG series, true.

Uh, yeah, the good ole "advance time" feature from... the BG series. Of all the features BG didn't have but we are going to pretend it did, this one is among my favorites!

 

 

 

Since you could rest at any time in BG, it was easy to advance time by 8 hours at least.

I support this request. It would be cool to have an option to wait until morning light before exploring those really nice looking wilderness areas

Is there some way to fast forward until morning / noon / evening? I don't really want to explore these lovely maps in pitch darkness unless there's a good reason to do so, but I seem to be stuck in a cycle of waking up from a rest or walking out of a dungeon to find it's nighttime.

 

Yes.

 

There's a console command:

 

AdvanceTimeByHour int

 

http://rien-ici.com/iemod/console

 

I don't know if it requires IE mod or not.

Since you could rest at any time in BG, it was easy to advance time by 8 hours at least.

And now tell me why you can't in PE. And no "boohoo I needed to use up my resting supplies I wouldn't use otherwise anyway" doesn't count.

I would like to choose resting hours as well. I greatly prefer exploring in the day.

I'd like to see this feature too.

 

I wouldn't use it very often, because I think it adds to immersion when I walk out of a dungeon and time has passed. The randomness can be interesting; I've never liked games that force day/night cycles so you're always exploring graveyards at night, etc. But I would use it to set daytime for areas like Copperlane when dealing with outdoor merchants. It doesn't feel right to have everyone standing around hawking their wares in the middle of the night. 

 

 

 

Yea, especially when you rest and suddenly its night, should just rest till morning or give you an option on when to wake up.

I think it was Troika's Temple of Elemental Evil that had an advance time option. You could simply specify how many hours you wanted to let pass. It wasn't resting and so no healing or spell resources would be regained. It was a handy option that would probably be easy to implemement.

Outside of cheat/console commands and camping/resting at an Inn more than once, there doesn't appear to be.

 

The only method would be to travel from a map to another and back again to waste time. Pick one that's 4-8 hours travel time, for example.

But that

Outside of cheat/console commands and camping/resting at an Inn more than once, there doesn't appear to be.

 

The only method would be to travel from a map to another and back again to waste time. Pick one that's 4-8 hours travel time, for example.

Causes more fatigue.

 

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But that

Outside of cheat/console commands and camping/resting at an Inn more than once, there doesn't appear to be.

 

The only method would be to travel from a map to another and back again to waste time. Pick one that's 4-8 hours travel time, for example.

Causes more fatigue.

 

This failure of a post is bought to you by a cell phone browser.

 

Yes, but unless all your parties have 0 Athletics, not enough to really matter a whole lot if you're just trying to move the clock forward 4-6 hours ... I have 3 Athletics and I seem to be able to go multiple days without Fatigue setting in. When I camp/rest, it's not because of Fatigue issues.

you could use some torches to light the way

For Act 2, you can go to Stormwall Gorge and click on the little plate in the ground on the lower left part of the overmap next to the entrance to the dungeon. This item has a scripted event interface; one of the options is "wait and see", which will instantly cause 8 hours to pass. You can do this as much as you want until Act 2 passes and Stormwall Gorge opens all the way; at that point the item is no longer clickable.

 

Another great feature we lost from BG series, true.

Uh, yeah, the good ole "advance time" feature from... the BG series. Of all the features BG didn't have but we are going to pretend it did, this one is among my favorites!

 

 

These old games get better every time I read about them

Are people confusing "rest whenever you feel like" with "advance time whenever you want"?