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    Hello every one,

    I`m just wondering how much time do you spend playing EB?
    I know that if I could I would have play for 12 hours without even feel the time running. How do you cope with playing and still leaving some time for the trivial duties in life like work, study, family, eat, drink and so on?

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    I know exactly what you mean (even though I haven't played a minute of v0.81 - been too busy making the cards).

    The key is to not rush the game. You don't need to finish the campaign by the end of the week. Just play a couple of turns every day and it is fine. After all this is nothing compared to a game like WoW where you have to be there for a 8 hour raid.

    Alternatively, become a hermit, shoot your family and friends, quit your job and try to live off pizza and coke.


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    Quote Originally Posted by cna'an
    Hello every one,

    I`m just wondering how much time do you spend playing EB?
    I know that if I could I would have play for 12 hours without even feel the time running. How do you cope with playing and still leaving some time for the trivial duties in life like work, study, family, eat, drink and so on?
    A good laptop is key ... with this we are once again able to go to work and play, go to the dinner table (eat and drink here) and play, go anywhere the family wants to be (vactions etc.) and play, go to school (this is where you do that study thing you mentioned) and play, and the rest of your life you can just play wherever you like.

    Yeah ... a good laptop is key!

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    I have called in sick, wear a diaper and live of nothing but water and a 500 liter bowl of protein powder. My aim is to become the first Roman EB player to make it to the Augustian reforms.

    rgds/EoE

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    I know exactly what you mean as well.. I can play and play and play, then promise myself, "One more turn and I'll stop and study/sleep!"

    ..Five turns later, I'm still saying the same thing. xD Eventually I stop when my laptop starts slowing down, though, and finally go on with them trivial duties. I think the advice to take it slow is a good point to note, even if the shoot them all option sounds better.
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    Actually, most EB members don't ever get to play a really long campaign. MarcusAurlieusAntoninus played a crazy-long Roman campaign when he started as a betatester for us, but I don't think many of our modders have been able to do that in a long times.

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    I have played a really long Makedonian campaign when 0.74 was released (to 150 bc) but since i joined Team i wasn't able to play a campaign for more than acouple of turns (especially during the 0.81 update process)


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    I got my self control back again after getting a 62% on my 1st Chemestry Exam. I can now say last turn, and then...... The game is over and study/sleep/weightlifting time.

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    Fortunately for me, my work mainly requires me to 'be there, just in case'. So I use the quiet times to think about strategies.

    No, I do not tell my boss.

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    Thankfully, my job, being tip oriented, doesn't work me a large amount of time (5-6 hrs a day usually). So I have free time to sink into my Romani campaign, which approaches 200 BC as we speak.
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    Quote Originally Posted by EoE
    My aim is to become the first Roman EB player to make it to the Augustian reforms.
    Shit i'd be happy with the Marians... i'm at like 230. Extremely fun so far.

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    Yeah, I wanted to do that, but a CTD during the AI turn stopped me from going further... It was 214 and I had just begun the African Invasion.
    But I've got no remorse. I'd somehow skipped the polybian reforms and jumped directly to Marian...
    Anyway back on topic, the most problematic is the loading time of EB. Takes about 10 minutes to load the game and a save, which means that I'm pretty reluctant to stop at the end of a turn. So I click "end turn" and a new problem arises... I take care of it and then repeat the process.
    Easily adds 2-3 hours of enjoyment, though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by EoE
    My aim is to become the first Roman EB player to make it to the Augustian reforms.

    rgds/EoE
    true that my friend!

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    I play months on one game, and still remain the underdog between the mighty factions. I often switch between few more savegames though (then forget the previous)
    I don't play for long in one day though. Even when studying history I need breaks..
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    Quote Originally Posted by cna'an
    Hello every one,

    I`m just wondering how much time do you spend playing EB?
    I know that if I could I would have play for 12 hours without even feel the time running. How do you cope with playing and still leaving some time for the trivial duties in life like work, study, family, eat, drink and so on?
    Well I've developed a strategy that helps one eliminate these problems in an effective and efficient way.

    1) eat your family

    2) you dont have a family to worry about them

    3) youre not hungry anymore

    4) eat the trivial duties

    5) eat the studies

    The Langoliers are time eating monsters.

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    Back in 0.80, I played about 2-4 hours a day. Then when I started getting assignments and studying for classes, I teatered off. Then I bug tested and much of that I wouldn't call 'playing', but a couple hours of that.
    Quote Originally Posted by EoE
    My aim is to become the first Roman EB player to make it to the Augustian reforms.
    I beat you to it! Though I am curious how many other people have gotten them. I started the campaign as a fan, but I think I got the reforms as a beta tester though. I kind of cheated though, setting the reforms early. Though I only got them about a decade early by the time I had a guy who could get them. But I have played past the original date, so I would have gotten them without the change anyways.

    Now that I'm done with the semester, I might go back and start playing the Roman campaign again, after spring break.


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