Day/Night LED's in cockpit.

[Domyras]

Simple yet effective idea in my own humble opinion.

I'm someone who has to (constantly) combat and deal with changing sleep cycles, and have learned (the hard way) that you NEED to (ab)use the effects of blue and red light.
For example, i have a strip of LED's that are either blue/red depending on if i'm supposed to be awake or sleepy.
(combined with f.lux but that doens't aply to my idea tho..)

After a little thinking it occurred to me that my pilot has been exploring in deep space for days/weeks now, and his day/night cycle had to be absolutely Destroyed
If he wasn't using some tricks to keep it under control, he'd be risking some serious mental issues.
for the Lore buffs: i don't care how many hundreds years ahead we are, please concider how deep rooted this issue is into your body, that's not something "a little gene editing" can fix. :|


I'll cut to the chase: my idea was to include some LED's or elements in the cockpits of ships that you can set to "daytime" or "nighttime"
Just something to give the screen/cockpit a feeling of blue/red - ness during the parts of the day where you feel it required.

 

[Tryst]

I get away with it by using "daylight white" bulbs in the house IRL.

I'm naturally nocturnal anyway, I love the night time and have excellent night vision. The problem is that I pay for it in bright sunlight, it makes the back of my eye sockets ache like hell and I squint so bad, my eyes are almost closed. If I had a penny for every time I've been called a Vampire, I'd be richer than Richard Branson now.

It really does depend on your lifestyle, after years of doing shift work I've gotten used to not having a regular sleep cycle. The ONLY thing I can't handle is 24 hour turnarounds where you end on a night shift and go back on a day shift 24 hours later or vice versa, those are a killer since you only have 24 hours to change your sleep pattern.

 

[ZainlessBrombie]

I think they leave the cockpit to sleep
But adjustable lighting? Why not? (Frontiers reply might be that GUI-space is very valueable)
-> could be a nice feature when walking around ships is added and could add interactivity to the ship