HOW LONG DO YOU PLAY and WHEN

[pompeynunn]

Originally posted by Turner_727


Exactly! And you're supposed to sit there, contently, next to them, while they watch their shows!

Glad I'm not the only one to have wife problems! I've sorted out a diplomacy pact, where I now get to play for 1 hour (which I can normally stretch into 2 hours or so) every other night, and a bit more at weekends. Trouble is, that means every other night I have to watch bl**dy soaps.

 

[Yndy]

1-2 hours per working day, 3-4 hours per weekend day. One week per month I vow to quit and don't play. Then I start over.

 

[Globetrotter]

Same as Yndy, except when nagging starts at home about me spending too much time on the PC! ...so i give it a couple of days break...

Edit: at least i try to

 

[warmonger]

Stop laughing folks this is serious.

This game is the first addiction I have experienced and it is destroying my life. I cannot play just a few turns - I cannot play just a couple of hours.

I survived University in the 70's without ingesting any of the multitude of substances that were available. Ditto for clubbing in the 90's when I experienced a few years in returned singlehoodness

Tuesday night this week I just had to finish off the Russians before I could sleep or start attacking the Babylonians. The Russians died at 3am, the alarm woke me at 7 - big decision time. Shall I go to work or wipe out the Babs? Guess which I chose?

You're right. I phoned the office - faked a meeting in a different part of town and played until lunch time. And I'm one of the bosses in the place. What sort of example is that?

To top a fine morning, I get caught by a speed camera as I hurry to the office to write the legal brief that absolutely positively had to be there that day. $150 extra for a morning of civ3 - worth every penny!!

I need help!

 

[Globetrotter]

Originally posted by warmonger
big decision time. Shall I go to work or wipe out the Babs? Guess which I chose?

You're right. I phoned the office - faked a meeting in a different part of town and played until lunch time. And I'm one of the bosses in the place. What sort of example is that?

To top a fine morning, I get caught by a speed camera as I hurry to the office to write the legal brief that absolutely positively had to be there that day. $150 extra for a morning of civ3 - worth every penny!!

I really hope that none of your colleagues reads this thread and realizes it's you...

Now i ain't joking, but last week i left a meeting in London sooner than i should initially had to, and flew back to Paris, headed straight home, and started civ to finish of those Babylonians, before my fiancee would come back from her work (t'is just an hour flight from London to Paris)

She's somewhat "keeping an eye" on the time i spend on the PC, and starts nagging when i "over do it". (refer to my post above)


Just take a long vacation, and go far away That's what my fiancee is planning to do to me

Edit: To Warmonger: Just noticed that you also had problems with those Babs!!! Geez they piss me off!

 

[warmonger]

Globe trooter,

Going away is not going to solve the problem. I have a business trip starting tomorrow covering Northern Europe and both coasts of the US.

I can't load Civ3 on my work laptop as I don't have admin rights. I cann't carry two laptops because the airlines have got all thingy about excess carry on luggage. I could leave the work laptop at home tho

mmmmm.........not a good idea really

So I will be without a fix of Civ3 for 10 days OMG 10 days. Cold turkey is a picnic compared to this.


I need help!

 

[Pembroke]

It just happens, that "Rude Awakening" is rerunning for the umpteenth time on a local TV channel here, so a scene automatically visualized in my mind:

Hi, I am Pembroke, and I am a Civaholic.

[Chorus: "Hi, Pembroke"]

I haven't played for 17 hours.

[Chorus: *applauses*]

My story goes thus: I slipped. I was again caught in that vicious cycle of "one more turn" from which I didn't recover until I heard a loud *clonk* coming from my mailbox. The morning paper had arrived and in two hours my alarm clock would go off and I would have to go to work...

[Chorus: "Poor sob!", "Oh!", "I know the feeling..."]

Anyway with your support, I can go on. Thank you all for that. I just have to take it one day at a time.

Wonder if Sherilyn Fenn has ever played civ?

 

[Globetrotter]

to Pembroke:

To Warmonger: I HAVE loaded Civ3 on my laptop (the one from work - the IT guy here is a cool friend!) as i can't just sit there in the plane or train, and do nothing, wasting Civ's opportunities (just did not have the lap top in this meeting i mentioned above)

But most probably where my fiancee is taking me, there is no internet, no computers, no lap top allowed, nothing...

Guess it will be some desintoxicating couple of weeks...
But hey, she can still try

 

[sabo]

Originally posted by Padma
Sounds like it should be an AA meeting.

Hi.

My name is Padma. And I'm a Civaholic.

Edit: While I'm kidding about the AA part (a little), there is a good deal of truth to it. Between Civ3, and CFC, I am totally addicted. I play and post when I am at home, and I post when I am at work. If it weren't for needs of my family, I would probably spend 24/7 at the computer!

Hi Padma, tell us "how it was, what happened, and what it's like now" Hey I should be getting a 1 year chip pretty soon, been playing since april 2002

 

[warmonger]

I know I will....but I hope I won't

Of course I will

I know I will buy PTW on this trip to the US

There goes my career, my marriage, my life. Back to lying and cheating to scape a few spare hours together for just a few more turns of an updated Civ3

Oh woe is me

I need help!

 

[sabo]

Originally posted by warmonger
I know I will....but I hope I won't

Of course I will

I know I will buy PTW on this trip to the US

There goes my career, my marriage, my life. Back to lying and cheating to scape a few spare hours together for just a few more turns of an updated Civ3

Oh woe is me

I need help!

warmonger:
just tell your wife that since she wants you to stop you could always go back to hitting the bars/taverns and chasing women all night, that'll shut her up

 

[Nightfang]

I play for about thirty minutes at lunch time, then from about 6pm to 10:30pm (later on Friday) and then nearly all day on Saturday and Sunday. Wife has her own machine, so she stay occupied with The Sims.

Wish I could get her playing Civ3!

 

[warmonger]

Oh dear..........I've just missed my next meeting because of this forum. Maybe I have two addictions Civ3 and CFC

edit: can't spell anymore

 

[Globetrotter]

Civ-fan’s Paradise

As I browse through the screens of advisors of death
I take a look at my wife and realise she’s already left
Cause I've been playing and civing so long that
Even my mamma thinks that my mind is gone

But I ain’t never crossed a fan that didn't deserve it
Me be treated like a civ-fan, you know that's unheard of
You better watch how you talking, and what you trading
Or you and your armies might be lined in chalk

Chorus:
They been spending most their lives living in the civ-fan's paradise
They been spending most their lives living in the civ-fan 's paradise
We keep spending most our lives living in the civ-fan 's paradise
We keep spending most our lives living in the civ-fan 's paradise

They got the situation, they got me facing
I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the Civ
So I gotta be down with the civ team
Too much civ playing got me chasing dreams

I'm a educated fool with my civ on my mind
Got my tanks on the ground and my planes in the sky
I'm a dearly loved leader set tripping banger
And my armies are down so gonna rouse my anger ... fool
Death aint nothing but a civ turn away
I'm living life do or die, what can I say
I'm still BC never will I live to see the AD’s
The way things are going I don't know

Chorus again...

 

[Reboot]

I find that if I play Civ3 for too long (more than 6 hours) I start seeing things around me different...

So now I play for around 3-4 hours, rest, regroup, and play somemore (if I have the time). Admittedly Civ3 wasn't as addictive as Civ1 and 2 was to me, but it does have its appeal.

 

[peace_frog]

Damn, Its so good to know I'm not alone...

I voted 1-2 hours because that is all I all I usually can play, but sometimes...

Warmonger, you sound eerily familiar. I think if we worked for the same company we would go bankrupt. I have a 50 minute commute to work that is one hour and 20 minutes during rush hour. So I work from home for a couple of hours in the morning, answering email, running stats, etc. That is I did before Civ 3. I have missed two days, claiming, 'I really need to finish this spreadsheet' one time and 'I am not feeling well so will work from home' another. I played Civ III all day both times. Had to meet my wife for drinks after work (12 hours after I started playing) and was 40 minutes late.
Then there was that one time, when she was out of town and I played all day and into the night. At one point I looked up to see what that strange light was... what was the sun doing up at 2 am anyway? Thank god it was a weekend, I was able to get a few hours to sleep. When I closed my eyes to try to sleep I saw white pulsing circles. I estimate I had been staring at them for about 19 hours straight.

When did you say those meetings were?

 

[Aeneas of Troy]

I used to play all night about every two days. Eventually, I gathered all the will power I had left I me... and I threw it away! you can do it too! I'm over my addiction and am very very happy.

 

[Melanic Sheep]

I had a few months of vacation before school started in January. I regularly played Civ from 10-14 hours a day for a while there... I was hooked. Now that school has started I'm only playing on weekends... It wasn't that hard to quit once I had a reason.

 

[Turner]

I have found that on those days I can play more than two hours, I tend to get bored with it after three or so. So by that time I generally stop and do something else for a while. Thankfully, it hasn't happened that much. . .

I tell you what, tho, I almost quit Civ3. In fact, I wasn't that into playing, going to give it up and look for something else, when PTW came out. Oh, I knew it was coming, I just was going to wait and get it later. But there I was, in EB, and holding a copy of PTW (this was the Friday it came out) and paying for it. . . the rest is history. I've been pretty into since PTW came out.

 

[satchel]

The sad truth is, I spend more time talking about civ here than I do playing. That is because I can check in here several times a day when I am at work, but I can only sit at the computer at home playing civ occasionally on weekends.

I can't play in the evening after work, because I would not sleep.

So it's just 1-2 hours on weekends, and not even every weekend.