The Cities are too damn dark!
I know we are supposed to save energy :p , but please FC add some streetlights in the cities and TURN THEM ON at night! It is crazy that I have to put on my ir goggles to see where I am going in the middle of trade. It also would be nice for the illumination diameter of the floating torches to be increased.
If you agree with this suggestion please BUMP it so someone at FC notices this thread.
It's something semi-buggy
It's not really a case of a design issue (i.e., keeping newbies out of the wilderness)....it's a case of something odd with the game. My girlfriend and I both play, and the game is much brighter on her machine than on mine. Other games look comparable, so I don't believe it's a brightness/contrast or gamma adjustment (in the OS) issue....it's an AO issue. I would love a gamma adjustment in AO so I could make it playable at night on my machine without making other games unplayably bright (if I adjust monitor or OS gamma). Using a floating torch and night vision goggles just doesn't brighten it up enough, even with brightness on my monitor maxed out. I can make it decent if I turn gamma up in Windows, but then it's way too bright in the day (yes, taking goggles off in daytime), not to mention ruining other games until I adjust it back down to default settings.
A simple in-game gamma control would rock.