What's your longest Civ3 session?

[KevinY]

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]

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]

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

[Stuie]

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

[Nym]

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

[metalhead]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Re: What's your longest Civ3 session?

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]

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]

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]

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

[BigDork]

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.