the longest time ever in Civ

[MrFelony]

I've gone probably 24 hours before, but i remember last summer I definitely did do about 60-70 hours a week at times.

 

[Red Dwarf Devil]

I work in Burma and the missus goes to Bangkok Thailand about once a month for a weekend.

When she calls back and asks what i am doing before I can answer I normally get the answer does it involve that game.

Short answer YES so when I am alone 8-10 hours at weekend is the norm

 

[DanF5771]

"You didn't go to the bathroom for 3 days?"
"I said, I didn't get up"...

http://civanon.org

 

[leckig]

"You didn't go to the bathroom for 3 days?"
"I said, I didn't get up"...

http://civanon.org

this reminds me Cartman in the WoW episode. When the need came, you probably just called:
"maaaaaam!!!"

 

[Stoney the I]

45H without sleep? apparently thats getting close to the point when you start hallucinating

nah, it took me 4 days without sleep a few years back to get to that point.
I heared ppl calling my name that werent there and stuff....

my personal record is something close to 36 hours straight. after few hours of sleep i continued though. this was just after BTS came out, i loved it so much and at the time i had plenty of time

 

[Julian Delphiki]

well, i noticed that when i play more than about 90 minutes before I go to bed, I cannot sleep too well.

I simply cannot stop thinking about my next move etc. do you guys get it as well?

Sure do.

It actually helps me to get sleep, since i keep thinking the game and my thoughts don't wander off to other things.

Physical effects somewhat suck, legs get all itchy and stuff from being in same position so long and my wrist often really hurts. When Warlords came out i actually taught myself to use two mice at the time (or one with the left hand as well) since i couldn't use my right hand anymore effectively but wanted still to play more..

BUT I AM NOT ADDICTED! NOT!

 

[The Snug]

I've been playing 16 hours a day for a month

 

[The Snug]

dont even really have time to come, read and post to this site anymore

 

[Eddi]

hm... i had the game RUNNING for like a week or two before...

but i did not really played it all that time, often it was just idling in the background while i did other stuff or sleep

 

[Bunk Moreland]

I average 4 hours a day, but once I went 20 hours. For some reason I needed aspirin like 3 times. At this moment I'm contemplating not going to sleep.

 

[leckig]

I broke my own rule and played yesterday for 90 minutes just before I went to bed. i had dreams whole night that half of my navy went missing on the way to Babylon and my remaining forces that were already deployed there were struggling to survive.

whole night looking for the missing navy. it was very bad...

 

[bestje]

@Leckig: sounds like the bermuda triangle random event

and just to hijack the thread how many people have played civ for so long it caused them to hallucinate or have another symptom relating to lack of sleep?

 

[cj7loop]

45 hours 18 minutes give or take a few seconds.

PS: Damnit I lost the game.

I lost the game.

On topic: 5 hours straight into a game.

 

[quiddity]

32 hrs in a raw here ..

but even if the OP must means time "in a raw", we happens to stay 3 day long playing with my brother in lan with small several sleeping interlude


what's up doc ?

 

[unclethrill]

I try to squeeze in at least 11 1/2 hours of my 12 hour shift at work twice a week. So long as the boss finally leaves. I'll get 5 or 6 in tonight when he finally leaves (this is why I'm on the forums right now instead).

 

[Mesix]

I try to squeeze in at least 11 1/2 hours of my 12 hour shift at work twice a week. So long as the boss finally leaves. I'll get 5 or 6 in tonight when he finally leaves (this is why I'm on the forums right now instead).

At least you got to sit inside and surf the forums while he was here. I had to actually do work for the first time in a couple of months.

Oh well, he's finally gone. Three hours left of shift to play a game or two.

I try to get 25-30 hours of game time in during my four day work week. On one 12 hour shift I submitted 21 HOF games (mostly quick conquest games on tiny maps).

 

[Stoney the I]

im in the wrong proffesion

what kind of work do you do where you can play at work for so many hours and not get noticed?

 

[Mesix]

We are both field engineers. We get paid for what we know...not what we do. Most of the time we are babysitting about $150 million worth of equipment with little to do. When something brakes we have to be able to fix it fast to keep services up and running.

It's not so much that we can't play while the boss is around. We just choose not to. Better not to have the issue come up. We watch movies while he is at work and surf the forums...that is if he doesn't give us busy work like happened to me last night. As soon as he leaves it's game on. Our coworker brings a PS3 and plays Grand Theft Auto while we are both playing Civ IV on our laptops.

 

[Stoney the I]

Thats pretty cool

im a highschool science teacher and if i start playing at work i might give off the wrong impression lol. now I might start thinking about switching jobs

 

[GIO888]

I usually Civ four or five hours a night if not otherwise entertained.

Sundays I have been known to go 10am to midnight with a couple need-to breaks grabbing something wholly un-nutritious from the kitchen on the way back, then wonder why I'm blitzed monday morning.....

It's good though, usually get a game in start to finish. How do you get to be a Field Engineer? Better than winning a lottery!