How Many Hours (on average) Do You Play FFH a Day?

[Sarisin]

My girlfriend accuses me of being addicted to 'THAT game.' She is probably right, but I still play FFH about the same amount of time that I used to play other PC games. It is just that I don't boot up the likes of Oblivion, Rise of Legends, or Titan Quest much these days in favor of FFH.

So, how many hours a day (on average) do you play FFH, and, if you want, it would be nice to hear what other games you are (or are not!) playing too.

 

[Silverkiss]

One more turn... One more turn... One more turn...

lol I dunno, normal days of the week only a couple of hours (3? dunno...) but holidays and weekends a lot (6+ ? dunno...)...

Since I began playing FfH I stopped playing everything else... lol blame you Kael now I don´t do anything else besides playing FfH

 

[Chandrasekhar]

I'm not playing it nearly as often as I should.

 

[khanjackal]

my wife is so angry

3-5 hours, if not more

it's all i play, i haven't gotten bored yet, it's so much cheaper than buying a new game every few weeks

i don't know if firaxis should have kael bumped off, or hire him, but it needs to do something with him, FFH makes warlords look awful

 

[Nikis-Knight]

Today, far far too much.

 

[Kael]

I play a nice long game every weekend, usually on Saturday. This weekend I was the amurites, seeing what mischief I could cause by staying at home and building up my uber mages while sending my mercenaries and pirates out to harrass other player (the responce from my AI opponents? "Mmm.. yummy xp, please send more"). I also learned not to guard my archmages with mercenary units, a player I wasnt at war with swopped in and killed the mercs, leaving my archmages standing alone in enemy lands. That didnt end well.

Last weekend I was the lanun fighting a war across an island map. It mostly centered on a city I was dumb enough to found right between the main Luchuirp and Calabim islands (it was 5 land tiles with access to pearls and reagents, i couldn't resist). I spent most of the game tromping around on the Luchuirp island with Guybrush fighting dwarves and golems while my fleets tried to keep the vampire ships at bay.

 

[vorshlumpf]

This last week I've actually not touched FfH once - life got busier and I was sucked back into Neverwinter Nights (thanks to one particular module). Last month, though, I was likely averaging 8 hours a day overall, meaning I had a bunch of 10+ hour days . . . I just couldn't help it.

With said NWN adventure being over, and the wonderful additions in version 0.16, I'm sure I'll be back to many FfH hours.

As for other games, my previous addiction was Oblivion, but I haven't touched it since before I first discovered FfH (Oblivion, I found, is a game of tedium with little reward - once you get over the amazing scope of the game-world and the depth of the NPCs). Before that my major addictions were (in reverse order) X-Com: UFO Defense (ah, nostalgia), ZAngband, and then Vanilla Civ IV (which was the reason I bought this fancy new computer of mine).

- Niilo

 

[Frozen-Vomit]

0.2h average per week of course - normally I only find time on weekeends... (just as long I work - when university starts on the 1. I will have more time )

 

[Jean Elcard]

As impossible as it sounds, but Civ4 ad FFH brought me back to the real world. The preceding two years I was almost completely glued to the EVE-Online universe. Now, after reducing play time to not more than two hours in the evening I'm up to finsihing my studies next week eventually.

 

[Sareln]

2 hours / day.
I'm currently enrolled in a university, the school year has started... yes there is homework.

those two hours are played concurrently with Japanese Homework and E&M.

I also play Magic:The Gathering, Warhammer 40k, and Soccer whenever they're available. Weekends I may do 5 hours / day.

 

[Nimbus]

When playing multi-hotseat my day will go for 4-12 hours depending on if a day off or not. When playing solo my day will go for 0-6 hours, although this has been more lately as I have been playtesting all the civs on a map I have made based on Nuists Earth Realism Map map, only 6 civs left to test

 

[TheJopa]

I wasn't often at home for the entire summer (And I'm still not often) so I didn't play much/at all. However for weekend I would play 4 or even more hours a day. But main thing that I noticed is (And I see some other people here as well) that I don't play anything else since I got FfH. No vanila/warlords civ, no oblivion, no anything else... One or 2 weeks before new FfH comes out, I deliberately stop playing it so that I can play oblivion etc. and then go back to new version of FfH.

 

[QES]

I usually play my longer games on weekends, with breif stints into exploring each civs possibilities once a day.

Personally I feel like im waiting for .16 to come out, then I fully expect to lose much of what little of a "life" I have back to FfH.
Its like Kael and Team have their own specifically refined form of Crack.
-Qes

 

[jafink]

I usually play about 2 hours now because school has started. In the summer i had alot less routine, so i would play anywhere from 0 - 5 hours a day.

 

[SchpailsMan]

I'd be glad if I could play 2hrs/day I usually only play FfH during weekends, at a 6h/day rate, during the week I play less time-consuming games such as old Genesis games on emulator, flash games etc... anything I can spend 15 minutes on, go do something else, get back to it for a few minutes and so forth. I feel my life could use 2 more hours per day

 

[Civkid1991]

i cant say... but i usually go through the whole game before the day is over... i going to say that is usually like 5 or more hours.

 

[Grey Fox]

Atm its 0 hours, I dont have the time really. (I spend most of what time I have left discussing the game instead )

When 1.16 is released I will start playing again. I might squeze in some MP games before then though.

When I do play, it can be everything from 20 mins to 10 hours at atime.
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[Bad Player]

2 people have indicated 6-8 hours per day!

DON'T YOU PEOPLE HAVE TO EARN A LIVING OR SOMETHING???

 

[Jean Elcard]

2 people have indicated 6-8 hours per day!

DON'T YOU PEOPLE HAVE TO EARN A LIVING OR SOMETHING???

There is always the possibility to skip sleeping for a while. Not a healthy time adder, though.

 

[MayNilad Man]

Entire weekend is given over to FFH, the weekdays are spent coping with the withdrawal symptoms.