Your civ limit

[MantaRevan]

I think I overdosed on civ today, after I played like, 6 freakin hours in a row of various civilization games. What's your saturation point before you get tired and walk away?

 

[Maniacal]

30 hours of Civ4 BTS and I was done with the game forever (this was over the course of a week).

 

[Perfection]

2 busy 2 civ

 

[Bugfatty300]

Back in the day I'd play CivIII for 16 hours, go to sleep, maybe eat something and then do it all again when I woke up.

Now I can't be bothered to play any game for more than a couple of hours. Don't know why but it's a good thing I guess.

 

[Kennigit]

One of the game of the months for civ 4 (or bts of the month, or warlords of the month) I hadn't played it and it was 2 days before submission deadline, so I played the game all in one sitting. Was probably like 13 hours.

Haven't really played much civ since then, which would be like 2 years ago now.

 

[azzaman333]

I've played from sunset to sunrise on quite a few occasions.

 

[stormerne]

I think I overdosed on civ today, after I played like, 6 freakin hours in a row of various civilization games. What's your saturation point before you get tired and walk away?

6 hours at a stretch used to be fairly standard for me. That was easiest with Civ2 and Civ4. Did it many times.

What's my limit? More than 10 hours starts to be too much I find.

 

[Leifmk]

Back in the day I'd play CivIII for 16 hours, go to sleep, maybe eat something and then do it all again when I woke up.

Now I can't be bothered to play any game for more than a couple of hours. Don't know why but it's a good thing I guess.

I'm much the same. Also with a family with young children I never have the opportunity to play anything for more than a couple of hours, and not nearly as often as every day at that.

These days I find game saturation works on a longer timescale. I can be into a game, and spend all available gaming time (which as I said is not much, compared to when I was single and lived by myself) on that game, for several weeks -- and then I've suddenly had enough of that particular game (and sometimes of gaming at all) for the next several weeks or even months. Then, slowly, after enough time has passed I begin to notice the desire to fire up a game again...

 

[ZeletDude]

All day. But that rarely happens anymore

 

[Skwink]

I haven't played in months.

 

[Archbob]

I play all day at times when its really cold outside on weekends where I don't work.

 

[MjM]

I've played civ all day like a few others in the thread. Longest stretch was probably somewhere around 10-15 hours.

 

[Nobody]

Son you need to play world of war craft. I did like 150 days over 5 years. Thats 12% of my time spent logged into world of warcraft. And i had months of no wow, so when i was wowing i spent a crazy % of my time.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

I've been on a massive stint the last week with holidays and crap weather . 10 hour stints easily . I even have a deal with my flat mate that the price of restarting is half an hour of housework .

But the worst thing is this . I'm sure we are all familiar with a painful mouse hand , but I actually have what can only be called "Civ shoulder " . I can't even pinpoint what motion is the cause , but it's very real.

 

[Murky]

Usually only play a few hours at a time.

 

[MantaRevan]

Son you need to play world of war craft. I did like 150 days over 5 years. Thats 12% of my time spent logged into world of warcraft. And i had months of no wow, so when i was wowing i spent a crazy % of my time.

I'm staying away from that game for the same reason a 1500 lb. man [should] stay away from a donut-burger.

 

[Mosher]

I've played Civ4 at a max of 5-6 hours at a time, but I rarely go higher than that.

 

[downtown]

I don't really play Civ at all anymore, and I have a hard time spending more than 2 hours playing any kind of video or computer game. Now, I play maybe 4 hours of Skyrim a week, and that's it.

 

[Murky]

I don't really play Civ at all anymore, and I have a hard time spending more than 2 hours playing any kind of video or computer game. Now, I play maybe 4 hours of Skyrim a week, and that's it.

I've heard that's a really sweet game, but I've been avoiding it because I know it will be a big distraction from work.

 

[Graceheart the Leopard]

My usual limit is about an hour or so, although some especially good games manage to last until the Industrial Age (read: about three hours).