OK - Survey Time

I was reading a thread at MATY yesterday and was rather startled when
someone posted that they played the game 15 hours a day. Blimey, I thought,
that's 2 working days, more or less, in every 24 hours.

Which got me to thinking - how many hours do you play?

I have been thinking about the time I spend on the game a bit recently since
I really need to get on with the writing up of my diss. and I need to
reorganise my time a bit. However, I do find the game is a good balance for
me from the pressures of my work (mostly teaching though with other stuff
too). I would say I play maybe 2-3 times a week for a maximum of 3 hours
each time (pushing it to 4 occasionally). I usually fire up the game in the
afternoon about 2-3pm and usually have to be getting ready for work by 5-6pm
or getting dinner ready or whatever. I don't usually play in an evening and
at all on the teaching days when I'm teaching during the day (Mondays,
Thursdays and sometimes tutorials on Fridays). I find I don't usually play
at the weekend either. Saturday is a family/household day (shopping,
cleaning, doing stuff with Him Indoors, making nice meals, also a bit of
teaching in the morning) and Sunday I just want to relax and usually just
read. However, I often find myself planning things in spare moments, like
on the way to work. I spend quite a bit of time late at night reading
newsgroups (I also post in forums on other topics as well as sims groups)
which I really enjoy and I often post here in the morning too as I'm doing
my emails. (I confess to being a Newsgroup Whore.) Sometimes it gives me
time to think of an answer to some request from real life or - more often
perhaps - a way to delay starting to do some real work. Sigh.

Anyway, I'm aware that others play more than me because they talk about
stuff I haven't experienced with the game - or haven't experienced more than
once - and sometimes it's clear they simply make more progress in their
stories than I do. I play very slowly.

So - how does it fit into your life? I'm guessing there aren't too many of
you who play anything like 15 hours a day (which I confess I thought was
extreme) but do you play daily or what?

15 hours a day? I think I'd be bored witless with the game.

Best wishes
maxon

I just started paying Sims 2, so right now it's 2-3 hrs a night every night.
LOL
My BF laughs when I creep into bed at 2am. (he gets up at 2:30 for work) LOL
He says he's a Sims widow.
Once I learn how to download stuff it's going to get worse!
"maxon" <jen.maxon.DeleteThis@NOSPAMntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>I was reading a thread at MATY yesterday and was rather startled when
> someone posted that they played the game 15 hours a day. Blimey, I
> thought,
> that's 2 working days, more or less, in every 24 hours.
>
> Which got me to thinking - how many hours do you play?
>
> I have been thinking about the time I spend on the game a bit recently
> since
> I really need to get on with the writing up of my diss. and I need to
> reorganise my time a bit. However, I do find the game is a good balance
> for
> me from the pressures of my work (mostly teaching though with other stuff
> too). I would say I play maybe 2-3 times a week for a maximum of 3 hours
> each time (pushing it to 4 occasionally). I usually fire up the game in
> the
> afternoon about 2-3pm and usually have to be getting ready for work by
> 5-6pm
> or getting dinner ready or whatever. I don't usually play in an evening
> and
> at all on the teaching days when I'm teaching during the day (Mondays,
> Thursdays and sometimes tutorials on Fridays). I find I don't usually
> play
> at the weekend either. Saturday is a family/household day (shopping,
> cleaning, doing stuff with Him Indoors, making nice meals, also a bit of
> teaching in the morning) and Sunday I just want to relax and usually just
> read. However, I often find myself planning things in spare moments, like
> on the way to work. I spend quite a bit of time late at night reading
> newsgroups (I also post in forums on other topics as well as sims groups)
> which I really enjoy and I often post here in the morning too as I'm doing
> my emails. (I confess to being a Newsgroup Whore.) Sometimes it gives me
> time to think of an answer to some request from real life or - more often
> perhaps - a way to delay starting to do some real work. Sigh.
>
> Anyway, I'm aware that others play more than me because they talk about
> stuff I haven't experienced with the game - or haven't experienced more
> than
> once - and sometimes it's clear they simply make more progress in their
> stories than I do. I play very slowly.
>
> So - how does it fit into your life? I'm guessing there aren't too many
> of
> you who play anything like 15 hours a day (which I confess I thought was
> extreme) but do you play daily or what?
>
> 15 hours a day? I think I'd be bored witless with the game.
>
> Best wishes
> maxon
>
>