What's your longest Civ3 session?

KevinY · January 17, 2003, 06:38

I got the game a week ago, and 2 days ago I pulled a 16 hour session, from 3pm to 7am, non-stop. After 5 hours of sleep, I got up, and played 3 more hours to finish it. This game is the devil!!!!!

It took me 1/2 hour to fall asleep cuz my brain still wanted to order workers to clean pollution and build railroad.

Alex · January 17, 2003, 09:02

It can be addictive, no?

My longest session was 5 hours long, non-stop. I don't have that much time to play. But once I played a CivII game for more than 9 hours!

Bamspeedy · January 17, 2003, 09:27

I know that I've had sessions longer than 24 hours before.

Stuie · January 17, 2003, 10:48

Probably 6 or 7 hours. Wife/kids/sleep keep interfering. Oh, and work, too.

Nym · January 17, 2003, 11:23

No precise idea. Probably no more than 6 or 7 hours as my stomach calls me for eating.

metalhead · January 17, 2003, 14:48

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Originally posted by Nym
No precise idea. Probably no more than 6 or 7 hours as my stomach calls me for eating.

Hmmm, you've never experienced the condition I like to call "Civ-stomach"? You know, you haven't eaten anything since that bowl of cereal 14 hours ago, but you're so focused on Civ, that you don't even notice? It feels kind of like your stomach after an intense night of drinking after not eating dinner - you know it's empty, but you can't bear the thought of eating something. Of course, after drinking it's for fear of not keeping it down, but during a marathon Civ session, it's for fear of leaving your computer for more than a 30 second bathroom break. After awhile, you begin to wonder if being 20 years old really precludes you from wearing Depends.

With Civ3, I've probably logged, at most, 5 hours straight, but when I was in college and playing Civ2, every once in awhile I'd bag class and play for about 18 hours or so. I did this every day for the week or so I had a dorm room to myself. Having a roomie kind of put the all-night civ session to more of a monthly affair. Now, it seems, I have better things to spend my time on, like Medieval: Total War.

MarkG · January 17, 2003, 14:59

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Originally posted by metalhead
Hmmm, you've never experienced the condition I like to call "Civ-stomach"?

civ should be suggested as a fast diet

"whenever you think of eating, start up civ"

Jaybe · January 17, 2003, 15:09

14-16 hours, once every month or two, non-work nights only, sometimes with no beverage or excreting hydrogenous wastes. Makes for a sore butt. I'm so messed up the following day that I don't do it again for awhile.

When it first came out, I was working, playing and getting much less sleep than usual for a week or two. Civ3 kept my energy up!

Solver · January 17, 2003, 15:10

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Originally posted by MarkG
civ should be suggested as a fast diet

"whenever you think of eating, start up civ"

Doesn't work on me

. It makes some delays between eating, but not too much.

Datajack Franit · January 17, 2003, 15:21

The last games I've been addicted to were Simcity 2000 and Final Fantasy VII- games nowadays are good, but not enough.. well, now there's porn of course

alva · January 17, 2003, 15:35

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Originally posted by KevinY

It took me 1/2 hour to fall asleep cuz my brain still wanted to order workers to clean pollution and build railroad.

This sounds very familiar

, also looking at anything wich takes on the colour of your civ.

I'm sure I've done a couple of 24h straight civ sessions

Brizey · January 17, 2003, 16:58

What sucks is now that I am an old dude and can afford to buy a $300 office chair for my computer, enabling marathon sessions, I somehow managed to get a wife and a job.

BigDork · January 17, 2003, 19:12

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Originally posted by Brizey
What sucks is now that I am an old dude and can afford to buy a $300 office chair for my computer, enabling marathon sessions, I somehow managed to get a wife and a job.

Yeah, somehow the wife always gets in the way. Usually after about 5 or 6 hours she starts to nag about it being her turn on the computer or wanting the two of us to spend time together.

BigD

Datajack Franit · January 17, 2003, 21:28

Divorce or force her to spend all the night clearing pollution with you

BigDork · January 17, 2003, 23:42

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Originally posted by Datajack Franit
Divorce or force her to spend all the night clearing pollution with you

Hrm...Civ3 or a wife who actually cooks, cleans, does laundry, plays video games, card games, and is generally cool. I think I'll stick with my wife. Besides after 5 hours my arse really starts to hurt.

BigD

Edit: The pollution idea might not be a bad idea though.

Trifna · January 18, 2003, 06:22

Each time I play, it's non-stop until the game is finished. Was same with SMAC. This is why I seldom play : too addictive

And games should alway be only games. I want reality to be my game.

I'm lot more on Apolyton than gaming.

Sheik · January 18, 2003, 10:11

My longest civ3 session is only 3.5 hours. I never play very long straight but that's probably a good thing. Eventually I always start to feel unproductive and I have to go and do something else.

MC Hawking · January 19, 2003, 15:33

My longest was civ3 session has only been around 8 hours (noon to eight on a saturday). I've been trying to limit myself ever scince I played civ2 for 20 hours straight instead of studying for a final that I scored horribly on the next day.

PrinceBimz · January 20, 2003, 14:00

I am wanting to think I had some sessions around 8-10 hours or more. Stopping a few minutes only to eat.

PrinceBimz · January 20, 2003, 14:02

Hey wait a minute...I have an idea. Maybe Firaxis can sell CIV3 as a weight loss product. In order to lose weight you just have to play it and you will forget to eat. Hmmm, we may even see more ladies involved in CIV3 then

Theseus · January 20, 2003, 17:00

Yesterday... 11am to 12pm, virtually without moving from my chair. AU 203, which is a blast but a BEEYATCH!

Dominae · January 21, 2003, 01:40

I was avoiding studying for exams last semester, and ended up playing all of AU202 (and writing the AAR!) in two sittings. That's around 30-35 hours in 2 days.

And yes, I did get that weird dream syndrome when I went to sleep; I remember trying to figure out the best way to place Workers around my bed for maximum efficiency. Crazy crazy stuff.

Dominae

Dr. A. Cula · January 21, 2003, 04:53

If you can look at the clock while playing Civ, you're not playing Civ.
Before I joined the working class, when I would play Civ (any version), I would end it after realising the sun was in the AM side of the window. I vaguely remembered that the sun was in the PM side of the window when I started, also that there was some kind of darkness at one point, and I heard some noises in the house, as people were getting ready to go to work. I only stopped because someone yelled the word SCHOOL before leaving and I realised I also had to be there. On the way to school I would still look for the best place to position my mech. inf. or armor troops before attacking.

Jamski · January 21, 2003, 05:54

You stop playing for such a long time when you learn to beat the **** thing !

No seriously, I wish had time to play for hours and hours, but I have to work etc. and all that jazz, so, I'm limited to playing small or tiny games on Deity and trying to win (or lose spectacularly) as fast as possible.

New question : What's the shortest length of time you've ever played Civ3 ?
Eh?

-Jam

By the way I'm VERY jealous of you guys who have time to play out a game on Huge for hours and hours. What's it like in the Modern Era?

Alex · January 21, 2003, 06:51

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Originally posted by War of Art
New question : What's the shortest length of time you've ever played Civ3 ?
Eh?

10 minutes. Then my wife came and said: 'Oh, no... not that game again!'

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Originally posted by War of Art
By the way I'm VERY jealous of you guys who have time to play out a game on Huge for hours and hours. What's it like in the Modern Era?

I usually don't play games on Huge maps, but it is somewhat painful in the later stages.

alva · January 21, 2003, 06:56

My current one is first time i got to modern without having won. In fact I'm building spaceship parts for the very first time.
(1100AD )

MoonWolf · January 21, 2003, 07:11

I've had some 12-14 hours sessions I think. Interrupted by food, drink and toilet though. My longest sessions without moving at all, was with Diablo II, from 10pm to 10am. I was even sitting in sofa (bad, bad for my back), so I'm impressed I managed to sit still so long!

But with Civ, I've had sessions where I suddenly "wake up", look around me and see that the only light is from my lamp and my screen. Then I start to make some breakfast and maybe get dressed...

My shortest have only been some seconds as I restart when my start location **cks

Jamski · January 21, 2003, 08:10

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Originally posted by alva
My current one is first time i got to modern without having won. In fact I'm building spaceship parts for the very first time.
(1100AD )

What ? ? ?

You can build SPACESHIPS in Civ3 ?

Well why am I waiting for MoO3 ?

SPACESHIPS

-Jam

alva · January 21, 2003, 12:34

I don't get it.

Lord_Davinator · January 21, 2003, 17:12

12hrs I would say would be a fair amount