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Post by Troy »

That i'm fucking up and doing the same thing that made me quit UO. Playing MMOs too much.

So I'm out, taking a break, Uninstalling eve.

Gotta get my shit in order. I already let Eve eat up half a semester, and that is simply half a semester too many.

Maybe a week from Eve was enough to realise that, and not a moment too soon. I might be back when I can control myself better, but maybe not.
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You should set a long skill to train. :-D

I spent a couple years straight playing UO until 3am every night then getting up at 7am for work. 2001 timeframe. Even played after chemotherapy with an I.V. port in my arm a lot of nights... right around the time of the AIA war, hehehe.




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That's the thing I like about Eve, you can take a long break and still advance your character. At least as long as you log in once or twice a week to switch skills.
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Yeah, I cut back last week too. And yeah, I'll only come back more powerful than I am now. or something...
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My time has been scheduled in advance till the end of the semester & possibly the end of the summer. Not much of it going to EVE.
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Since this is a reality-Eve related thread...

I've suspected for years that my brain works in much the same way as learning skills does in Eve. Give it enough time to crunch a problem & it usually does so. Time it takes to crunch is proportional to the difficulty of the problem. 1.5 weeks ago, I started to tackle some annoying-ass computational complexity problem w\ ZERO progress despite actively trying to break it. Then, this morning the answer suddenly comes to me out of no-fucking-where. I've'd similar experiences w\ other problems. Trippy shit, man, trippy shit.
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But if the game is fun. . . . what is too much?! Is the game becoming boring, or is it really a fear of addiction thing?

You guys have been reading too much of that MMO Annonymous site, or what ever it was!

What I'd like to do, is make the time spent playing the game more productive. 3 people, 8 hours to score one kill is nuts. And it wasn't a lack of bad guys. It was a lack of bad guys that didn't know us. Everyone knows better than to attack us now. Seems there are more intelligent bad guys playing eve.
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Well, as to Malcolm's point - I don't think what you are experiencing is relevant. I think that giving the brain subconcious think time (ie "thinking about nothing") allows it to solve really complex things. Whereas, in Eve, everything takes a set amount of time, period.
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Me: Everyone is "taking a break" from Eve.
Her: They must have gotten in trouble.
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Ha.

I, at least, am still playing as much as I have from the beginning.
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Ya, but you don't play much, cause you're not aloud.
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I am steady as the northern star.
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Except that you USE to play games. . . alot. Now you don't. But other than that, you are steady.
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Post by GORDON »

Yeah, besides that.

Trust me... I'm not really happy about the situation.

Am, and am not.

I could really use a break and have some gaming time.




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I'm tellin' ya. A good spankin' and a playpen go a looong way.

Not sure what you should do about the kid though.




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I am steady as the northern star.


Props for using that quote in a thread about a game played in space.
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I am steady as the northern star.
Props for using that quote in a thread about a game played in space.
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Gunn would like to know where the hell everyone went.

I told him Troy was scared. :p
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I don't think he's scared. I think his girlfriend has had enough and put her foot down.
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That's what I said.
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