How long do you play?

[Chosun]

What is the minimum amount of time that you decide you need to have free before you sit down to play MTW II?

If I want to autocalc battles and turtle for awhile, 30 mins at least.
If I want to fight a multi-stack battle, at least an hour.
Sometimes 5 hours go by and I'm like whoa.....got to work tomorrow.
I don't think I'm addicted or anything. Maybe just a little bit.

[OMGLAZERS]

I'm so bad with scheduling and such, I just play whenever. Even if I only make one or two troop movements, I can always save and come back to it.

Then again, I spend a lot of time each turn planning and such, so one or two movements can be a bit of a deal.

[Darth Nihilus]

I play when I really feel like it and I have a spare hour or so. I really don't even attempt to play unless I have atleast an hour to play.

[pat the magnificent]

i need about 5 hours to play, thats often spent trying to win a single near impossible battle. i refuse to quit until i've won.

[JCoyote]

I have a habit of leaving the campaign map running in the background, and making a few moves every once in a while as I do other things. However, I tend to play campaigns at length, instead of trying to break some record for how fast I can crush everyone.

Normally memory leaks and lockup after long idle times aren't a problem for most gamers. They are for me. But it's my own fault and I can always kill the process and load a save game so no biggy.

[PureFodder]

I aim to get a good hours play in. If I play for short bursts I'll often forget something I was doing and end up letting some units/agents sit in a field somewhere for a couple of turns.

[Kraggenmor]

People stop playing?

;)

I got the game for Christmas and took advantage of my lengthy company holiday to really clock some hours on it. There were multiple 'almost the entire day including going to bed at 3:00 A.M. days.

I think the game has an 11:00 P.M. code. Two nights in a row, really exciting stuff started happeing during the 11:00 P.M. hour and I simply couldn't just save and go to bed.

It was during one of these events that I experienced one of the most exciting castle sieges I've ever had that combat was what really hooked me into the game.

Now that I've had the game for a bit, my playing time has normalized to a few hours a night.

[danfda]

I played the hell out of it when I first got it, up to the point that I skipped classes and just didn't show up for work. Brilliant on my part, I know, but I had no finals last semester and I work in my grad school lab. I knew what I was doing. ;)

I've not played in several weeks, but that's due to me playing Neverwinter Nights 2 over and over... I think it is time to break this lil' baby out again, at a more normal pace.

[baron_Leo]

I have failed about 5 or 6 exams because of this damned game:-) Once i started a game at 8 AM and finished next morning at 10. I just can't stop when I start.

[pdoan8]

If I don't have at least 1 hour to play, I won't fire it up.

In the first day, I played about 20 hours straight. I'm average about 2 hrs/day now.

[Ring_Master\]

If I don't have at least 1 hour to play, I won't fire it up.

I kinda do that too, partly because I like to accomplish a whole lot in one sitting so to speak, that and how I never want to feel so rushed to finish something in the game up to a point where it screws up what I had in mind i.e. Battle Plan.

[todorp]

I have failed about 5 or 6 exams because of this damned game:-) Once i started a game at 8 AM and finished next morning at 10. I just can't stop when I start.

I did this a few times with STW and RTW. With MTW2 I try to control myself and play to 12am max

[Armenia_Byzantium]

I have failed about 5 or 6 exams because of this damned game:-) Once i started a game at 8 AM and finished next morning at 10. I just can't stop when I start.

I remember when i failed a couple of my computer science exams because of my addiction to age of empires, now we have total war, what a waste of time age of empires was!

[Chosun]

I'm down to about 4-5 hours a week now. I guess I'm just waiting for the second patch. Too many mods to choose from which is a good problem but still a problem. My breaks from the game have been getting a little longer in between sessions but I think it might have to do with the Chicago Bears. Maybe I will play more after they win the Superbowl.