How many hours?

[Wiglaf]

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 ?

[Googlie]

we're all ashamed to admit how addicted we are

[Zonk]

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.

[Skanderbeg]

I also confess to be addicted. Currently playing 3 to 4 hours a day.

[Aredhran]

I don't play as much as I used to, but I probably have a few thousands of hours on this game...

Aredhran
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[cbn]

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.

[grimreap]

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.

[Misotu]

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.

[grimreap]

I found the same, misotu.

[Wiglaf]

quote: 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...

[grimreap]

quote: 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.)

[Wiglaf]

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.

[grimreap]

Oh, right, i gotcha.
Yes, I c what u mean, 'tis a little bizzare- just 1 of those things i guess.

[Kirnwaffen]

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 .

[Googlie]

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?



Googlie