the longest time ever in Civ

[SenhorDaGuerra]

Civ IV: about 12 hours straight
Football Manager: about 15-16 hours
Pro Evo (with some buddies): we've managed more than 24 hour marathons (playing round robins and tournaments with 10 minute games)
Diablo II: about 10 hours

Ive played other games extensively but not for longer periods than 6-7 hours, the ones above are the ones ive been addicted to the most!

ps, Diablo III has been anounced. sweet.

 

[Mesix]

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

When I was in Highschool, one of my teachers let the class play Sim City. He felt it was educational and a fun way to get the class involved in discussions. Another teacher I had used the board game Axis and Allies when he was teaching us about WWII. Maybe you could build a lesson plan around Civilization and introduce your students to a game that is more educational than the average video game out there.

 

[unclethrill]

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.

I'd say closer to $400 million but the rest is spot on

 

[Stoney the I]

Maybe you could build a lesson plan around Civilization and introduce your students to a game that is more educational than the average video game out there.

heh, that would be cool, but since i teach physics and chemistry there are not that many video games to choose fom in that area. Im open for any thoughts on it though.

 

[Mesix]

Physics and Chemistry are two of the technologies in Civ IV. Sounds like a winner to me.

 

[Mesix]

I'd say closer to $400 million but the rest is spot on

Yeah...I was sitting at home wasting personal time on the forums (and losing the Diety Cultural Gauntlet for the HOF a couple more times) and threw out a very rough figure. Shortly after I posted I thought to myself that it was probably a little low.

Back on topic...I'm at work now (and so is Unclethrill), but I have some stuff to do, so probably only about 4-6 hours of game time tonight.