Another week at work on minimal sleep - I'm shattered - bloody DAOC! :)

[illu]

Lo peeps

I wonder how many people like me have to try to juggle a work life / after work life and playing DAOC life?

Up until recently I had a girlfriend, so I had to juggle that too, but now it's mainly trying to get a few goes on DAOC in between beer time and sleeping.

Unfortunately sleeping is losing out big style I reckon this game is the reason for many many sick days and people oversleeping all over europe and the US, and lots of poor excuses given to your boss the next day.

Any why can't my boss understand that I fell asleep at my desk because I was on a "relic raid" last night? or that I was defending my Realm AMG Wall in Odin's?

Anyway, I just wanted to know how these people juggle their time - and whether they are students or unfortunately unemployed, or whether they just share accounts or something....

1 Eleasias Wayfarer Hibernia 2,845,717 43,174 50 Vengeance Ranger Celt
2 Alpha Male Albion 2,347,463 185,031 50 Herfølge Boldklub Minstrel Highlander
3 Veeshan Albion 2,066,594 213,332 50 Tempest Sorcerer Briton
4 Outlaw Albion 1,830,378 168,505 50 Guardians of Light Theurgist Avalonian
5 Cuthervaen Hibernia 1,707,166 126,961 50 Celtic Fist Champion Celt
6 Horsma Hordesdottir Midgard 1,592,907 164,273 50 Cradle Skald Norseman
7 Gobarnachta Ahterinpurija Hibernia 1,527,671 242,206 50 Eel Enchanter Elf
8 Sub Midgard 1,525,107 163,145 50 Nolby Pride Berserker Norseman
9 Madeleine Kalya Midgard 1,523,021 168,905 50 Nolby Pride Skald Norseman
10 Venomski Midgard 1,490,765 168,902 50 Nolby Pride Runemaster Kobold
11 Eiaals TheMedic Midgard 1,444,274 137,286 50 Nolby Pride Healer Dwarf
12 Eeny Weeny Midgard 1,420,546 58,986 50 Nolby Pride Shadowblade Kobold
13 Creep Midgard 1,387,478 19,144 50 Nolby Pride Shadowblade Kobold
14 Bluwi Somberlain Midgard 1,383,262 82,419 50 Moonlapse Vertigo Runemaster Kobold
15 Mallus Darkblade Albion 1,323,334 49,537 50 First Cohort Infiltrator Saracen
16 Kallistor Midgard 1,289,773 68,378 50 Nolby Pride Runemaster Kobold
17 Qte Eth Hibernia 1,282,826 88,303 50 Terra Dominus Mentalist Lurikeen
18 Korv Midgard 1,252,378 36,843 50 Blizzard Shadowblade Norseman
19 Mazsola Slowhand Albion 1,243,937 6,628 50 Shadowlords Society Minstrel Highlander
20 Eos Somberlain Midgard 1,242,281 75,952 50 Moonlapse Vertigo Skald Norseman

I know some people play from work - that must be damn good too, but unfortunately, as I am a mobile I.T. Engineer - I am constantly moving about - and tend to work in open plan offices :/

Anyway - Back to work hehe

Oli - ILLU

 

[KodFace]

They dont


They are prolly bums on the doll or pikey students

 

[Ckiller ofDust]

hehe excuses

I have alot of em...

my boss knows em all


Im thinking of settin up an addiction removal site for DAOC but have no idea of how to get rid of the addiction

 

[old.Nol]

FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT ME!

 

[Eleasias]

heh yeah im a student, but i dont skip classes that much but the sleeping part is REALLY hurting T_T and then trying to catch it up all on weekends by sleeping 15 hours T_T _T_T_T_T_T_

 

[old.XanateA]

you can get over 1 million rp pretty fast, i got 1.250 mill rp in 25 days played, so dont draw everyone over 1 line , k thx
the game has been out for like 6 months, many ppl been rvring for 5+ months

 

[old.Affydaffymezu]

Any of you college/university students ever thought about graduating on this subject?

The loss economy's worldwide suffer due to online gaming:

- calling in sick at work
- playing at work
- if not playing, browsing forums at work
- printing game manuals etc at work
- concentration loss due to not enough sleep
- concentration loss due to already being online 'in your head'
- students appearing on the working market years later due to
missed years at university (played instead of studying boy?)

Now I aint a mathematician nor a good calculator but i am pretty sure we are talking about millions and millions of dollars ...

P.S. typing this at work while printing a new infiltrator guide

Afun Mindbreaker
Sorceress Prime
RR4
First Cohort

 

[Flimgoblin]

whats with the T_T?

 

[yog-hurt]

just remember ...it is only a game....it isnt RL..

 

[Cuthervaen]

Actually I'm a pimp and don't have to work...

The annoying part is when a girl nibbles my ear without warning while making squirrel sounds and it makes me fumble in my quickbars and I loose to Xanatea group and I get terribly annoyed and I HAVE to beat her blue with a coat hanger.

Life is hard :/

 

[Ensceptifica]

Originally posted by old.Affydaffymezu
Any of you college/university students ever thought about graduating on this subject?

The loss economy's worldwide suffer due to online gaming:

- calling in sick at work
- playing at work
- if not playing, browsing forums at work
- printing game manuals etc at work
- concentration loss due to not enough sleep
- concentration loss due to already being online 'in your head'
- students appearing on the working market years later due to
missed years at university (played instead of studying boy?)

Now I aint a mathematician nor a good calculator but i am pretty sure we are talking about millions and millions of dollars ...

P.S. typing this at work while printing a new infiltrator guide

Afun Mindbreaker
Sorceress Prime
RR4
First Cohort

I believe it actually already is a popular field of study. Especially the gaming community in Korea is an interesting phenomenon. Think gaming addiction is cause for more dropouts over there than anywhere in the world.

 

[illu]

hi xana - just to re-iterate that I'm not having a dig at anyone, I'm just fascinated as to how people juggle this fine game and their lives, and Eleasias - I think I might just have to enrol in a master's degree

I basically just picked the top 20 as on http://www.duskwave.com/daoc/
this morning.

I want to be a student again! Unfortunately I have a mortgage, but I've got some nice holiday days coming up in the next month, and I'm pretty damn sure I'll be levelling up some of my alts on those holiday days instead of painting the hallway

Oli - ILLU

 

[Cuthervaen]

My theory is westerns powers (especially USA with the help of a secretly CIA founded Richard Gariott) devised MMORPG as a way to fight the threat upcoming eastern economies, with their tireless workers and small social contestation, were beginning to be for our old societies of slackers.

 

[-Lonewolf-]

I heard a rumour that some people have more than one person playing their account therefore not having to be on all the time themselves and still racking up lots of RP's

All the people who spread this rumour were dragged out into the street and Shot!

 

[cougar-]

hahaha, that theory sounds almost too good, mmorpg,the destroyer of worlds.

 

[Envenom2]

i think when you do have lack of sleep from playing a game is the point weather you have to look at yourself and think is this right? answer no go get some sleep u can play this game anytime lol

 

[Nightchill]

Hmm, I'm a student and have fk all free time. Three 9-5s (lab/research), lectures, and then meeting with group, reading round the past 3 years of physics I've forgotten :\

Ok in your first/second year though, especially if you do an arts degree..

 

[old.Gobarnachta]

But hey if one is just a true playa

I am student aswell with all the time in my hands
Oh well this will change soon as next year when I'll go do my military-service (obligatory in Finland) which will last 6 months and keeps me really away :}

Until then prepare to be ganked by suicidal PBaoer with THA Leaf mark or gank me anyways RPts flow will be on

-G

 

[Sabu]

Originally posted by Cuthervaen
My theory is westerns powers (especially USA with the help of a secretly CIA founded Richard Gariott) devised MMORPG as a way to fight the threat upcoming eastern economies, with their tireless workers and small social contestation, were beginning to be for our old societies of slackers.

LMAO

 

[Kagato.]

I work full time, have to be at work for 7:30 am in a morning yet im still up till around 2 am each night playing DAoC so I find myself working in zombie mode lol. Getting by on 5 hours of sleep each night aint healthy believe me. Im trying to cut back and log out around midnight now, but it aint easy, the game is way to addictive.

 

[Killgorde]

Originally posted by KodFace
They are prolly bums on the doll

Is that the blow-up variety or the hand-crafted ones with real hair?

 

[Aussie-]

omg those ppl in top 20 have no life! T_T

 

[Pin]

Originally posted by Aussie-
omg those ppl in top 20 have no life! T_T

So where would you fit now if you joined a guild then Aussie? Top 3 no-lifer?

 

[old.Nol]

<chuckles at killgorde>

 

[belth]

Originally posted by -Lonewolf-
I heard a rumour that some people have more than one person playing their account therefore not having to be on all the time themselves and still racking up lots of RP's

All the people who spread this rumour were dragged out into the street and Shot!

Hmm...

 

[censi]

It sends a shudder down my spine when I think about how much time some peeps plough into Daoc...

I am pretty lucky, I get more time than most with my job.. I frequently get 3-4 days off work and usually spend a couple of those days vegetating in my flat playing daoc for 10 hours a day... After doing this for a couple of days, I get tired of the game and then try to take a break from it for a few days and do RL stuff....

There are people that have probably got /played > 100... My /played is over 40 now and I have spent way to much of my time playing... to the point that my friends think im becoming reclusive....

I still think though all those peeps in the top 20 desearve a lot of credit though for their dedication and determination...

But I also believe that ne1 with over 1 mill RP, is addicated to this game and should perhaps think about where they are heading in life, and what they want out of life...

 

[Aussie-]

sad.













karam imitation T_T

 

[old.Nightrider]

Originally posted by illu


Up until recently I had a girlfriend, so I had to juggle that too, but now it's mainly trying to get a few goes on DAOC in between beer time and sleeping.
Oli - ILLU

im sorry dude =\

 

[Feldegast]

LoL Censi there are ppl with around just 600k rps that are addicts too, but atm they are trying to change that =)

 

[old.Demerzel]

woot?

mmorpgs are probably the beginning of the downfall of our civiasation, but hey im not complaining