Dawned on me
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.
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.
You should set a long skill to train. 
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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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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"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
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.
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.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
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.
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.
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.
It's not me, it's someone else.
I am steady as the northern star.
Props for using that quote in a thread about a game played in space.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell