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Old December 31, 2000, 23:55   #1
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How many hours?
Just curious, how many hours do you think you've spent on SMAC total? Every week? I've (only) spent about 30-40 total so far, maybe 2-3 hours a week. Does that make me "casual" around here ?
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Old January 1, 2001, 15:28   #2
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we're all ashamed to admit how addicted we are

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Old January 2, 2001, 03:38   #3
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If I could cut down to 2 or 3 hours a DAY I would consider myself casual. This is after a couple of years. Every game is different and entertaining. I still find new techniques/stratagy from reading the posts in these forums, as well as the wonderful guide written by Vel.
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Old January 2, 2001, 05:15   #4
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I also confess to be addicted. Currently playing 3 to 4 hours a day.
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Old January 2, 2001, 08:30   #5
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I don't play as much as I used to, but I probably have a few thousands of hours on this game...

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Old January 2, 2001, 12:08   #6
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My hours at this come in spurts. I spent about 16 hours on the weekend (better half works shiftwork ). I probably won't play again until Thursday when she works again.

Like most here I do find it addictive and have often fallen into the 2am "one-more-turn" syndrome. Real life ( full time job plus part-time graduate student) means that I can never play as often as I would like so I tend to binge whenever I get a golden opportunity.
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Old January 2, 2001, 20:41   #7
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IMO not enough.
In my girl-friends opinion, far too many!

To be honest I can't get into it like Colonization or Civ 2.
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Old January 2, 2001, 21:07   #8
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It's interesting how many mentions Colonization still gets. I loved it in a way, but being honest, I don't think I ever finished a single game, despite hours of playing the thing. It just didn't quite ... hang together somehow. Although there was something about the way it worked that had me hooked.
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Old January 2, 2001, 21:17   #9
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I found the same, misotu.
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Old January 2, 2001, 21:28   #10
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To be honest I can't get into it like Colonization or Civ 2

That's weird, considering SMAC runs 99% on the civ2 engine...
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Old January 2, 2001, 21:31   #11
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Originally posted by SMACed on 01-02-2001 08:28 PM
That's weird, considering SMAC runs 99% on the civ2 engine...


What is weird? (sorry i just don't understand your comment.)
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Old January 2, 2001, 21:37   #12
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I mean it's odd that you can't get into alpha centauri considering it runs mostly upon the civilization 2 engine/program. They're similar.
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Old January 2, 2001, 21:43   #13
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Oh, right, i gotcha.
Yes, I c what u mean, 'tis a little bizzare- just 1 of those things i guess.
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Old January 2, 2001, 23:39   #14
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I tend to shift from game to game, but when I come back around to SMAC, I find that, strangely enough, that all of the sudden it's friday when I sat down on tuesday . Seriously though, when I get going, I'll go for anywhere from 2-5 hours at a time. That used to be more frequent, but then around September, some place called school sent me a letter saying I had to go there instead .
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Old January 3, 2001, 00:22   #15
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So, it's confession time.

If today is any indication...

Up at 7, played 4 PBEM game turns (about 15 minutes each with download, unzip, play, zip, e-mail off, flip to Apoly to log the turn) - so 1 hour give or take ten minutes.

After golf (well, I am on vacation) came back, ten PBEM turns waiting (I'm in 17 games) - 4 hours later, all turns played and now have time to browse the boards.

Still ahead, 2 chapters to write for The Spartan Chronicles

so ........ about 7 hours in a typical day

Sheesh - now that's embarrassing - am I addicted or what?



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Old January 3, 2001, 01:04   #16
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I remember I used to play about 5 hours straight every chance I got, but that got me into some bad headaches Now I mostly play a single game over the course of about 12 days - it gives me time to think about it when not playing, rather than one massive eye-straining game all happening at once. When I played civ2 I hated looking up at the clock at seeing I had just lost a day of my life Not something I want to repeat...
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Old January 3, 2001, 01:11   #17
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I'm certainly glad to see that I'm not alone on the hours spent. The reference to school getting in the way brings a warm, fuzzy feeling back. My wife told me it was either SMAX or her. She was a wonderful wife, and I'm going to miss her.
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Old January 3, 2001, 01:24   #18
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ROFLOL, Zonk



Aki, Corrie, Dee, Miriam or Roze would be poor substitutes (to say nothing of H'minee)

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Goes in fits and starts. I've just had a pretty bad week (well, depending on your point of view ) But I'm in so many email games, days with no SMAC are rare indeed. I probably average somewhere between 2 and 4 hours a day.

Occasionally I still get my teeth into a good SP game (DiDad's AI's Revenge scenario is the latest) and then ... well, I don't think I want to talk about how long I can play straight through. Too long
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Old January 3, 2001, 05:35   #20
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quote:

Originally posted by Googlie on 01-03-2001 12:24 AM

ROFLOL, Zonk



Aki, Corrie, Dee, Miriam or Roze would be poor substitutes (to say nothing of H'minee)

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Oh, I would like to teach Aki to pop-boom!
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**shuffles up to the microphone, and clears throat**

Hello. My name is Killjoy. And I have an SMAC problem!

How many hours have I logged with SMAC? Far too many to count. I think I'm worse with SMAC than I ever was with CIV or CIv2. This game is totally captivating.

My only disappointment is that there most likely will not be more in the way of expansions/patches/development for this game. Its a shame, because its an amazing game universe that calls out for more! Anything!!
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Old January 3, 2001, 19:21   #22
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about 7 hours in a typical day

Now that's pretty bad
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I'll go for anywhere from 2-5 hours at a time. That used to be more frequent

You know they say spend 10 minutes every hour while playing to rest eyes, hands, and joints... Oh, Kjoy, I know, it's a shame, isn't it?
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I seem to recall that I once spent a day playing smacx multiplayer, it went something like started a three player game at lunchtime, played until dinner. One of my friends wakes up and wants to play, so I played him until midnight, then seeing both of us are still alive we played until breakfast. My memory gets a bit dim then (as it does after 18 hours straight of SMACX) but I probably played another 6 hours that evening.

I also once played about 12 hours straight of CTP (four players), eventually I convinced one of my friends to play SMACX instead (someone had been spreading vicous rumours that SMACX MP was crappy), that first MP game of SMACX lasted until breakfast , ended with a PB the crap out of everyone victory (except my friend, only his HQ got hit). Luckily after showing my friends that SMACX MP was better than CTP MP I never had to play CTP again.

I'm a uni student, with 24hr access to the uni network, and other people just as badly addicted to computer games as me. Don't ask me how, but I managed to pass all of my courses too

Now it's holidays and I can only dedicate about three to six hours a day to SMACX
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Can anyone top that ?
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Er ... yeah. Not that it's an accolade or anything. But I have played SMAC/X for more than 36 hours straight on several occasions.

Don't ask. There are reasons. Honest.

...

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Who am I kidding ???
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Old January 4, 2001, 15:00   #26
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I may play the longest games, I think. I like to start a CivII game as the Russians, and play that through until I reach "Alpha Centauri" and then continue to guide my civilization, or its remnants, to transcendence as the "University". I like the bigger maps and carefull management, so these tend to be marathon games. They take me months sometimes to play all the way through because I dont play very many consecutive hours. That is if the CivII "pre game" counts. I dont know.

Anyway its kind of fun to start in the stone age and progress all the way to Transcendence.
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Wow, Blake's played more than all of you? I guess 24 hours isn't too shabby
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Old January 5, 2001, 07:18   #28
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Hmm, I decided to stop counting when I passed 1000 hours. I am pretty certain that SMAC is the first (and only) game that I passed 1k hours on. (Diablo 1 might have been close, but I just found that game to late. Had I gotten it when it came out I figure it would have been my first 1k game.)

I probably doubled the number of hours on smac by now, but I am far from certain. But, university is close to over, and come monday the 22nd I start to work as a software developer. That will probably drastically cut back all my game playing time. *sigh*

1000 hours of this game. And then another 1000 hours... Never played for longer than 18hours in one sitting though. And never more than 12 straight hours of multiplay.

And a ps: In Civ III, please give us the control over world parameters that players of FreeCiv have!
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24 straight hours and the closest you people come is 18 ?
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I think I've managed to play Civ2 for real close to 24 hours (well, ok, we broke for meals... well.. rather, we went to eat and talked about the game). It was one of the most memorable games I must say. Was playing with 2 of my buds, started around 9 or 10 am of one morning, played, ate, played, ate, and played till around 2am... by then my 2 friends realized the tech lead I'm having and decided to gang up on me and all hell broke loose... was one hell of a war, They managed to knock out all my defending troops in my capital but couldn't quite occupy it.... topped off by the fact that the difference between my victory and theirs was made by one Engineer on a forest (whom I used as a roadblock) somehow managed to fend off an alpine trooper(can you just picture that??? imagine an engineer slamming his shovel into an alpine troop going full speed downhill....). We still laugh about it when we talk of that game till this day. Anyway, basically we finished around 7 or 8 am that night and we went to breakfast... I almost passed out at Denny's
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