Any tips for prolongued gaming?

[AntiochusIII]

Simple, lost of red bull, pizza, and a toilet system hooked up hospital style.

That's unhealthy.

To OP: Just let the nerds be nerds. 20-hour marathons are not cool. You lose enjoyment as your physical condition gets worse, which is kinda counterproductive to the purpose of gaming in the first place.

Now, playing a lot, but with clever scheduling is another matter.

If you want to score 12+ hours of gaming a day with out a headache, it really is easy, just make sure to split that into two or more sections and do something different in-between: snacks, dinner, lay your head down, a shower (best), even a nap...

[scotchedpommes]

Would have to agree with AntiochusIII here. Have experienced overly
lengthy gaming sessions [not entirely uninterrupted, mind, but near enough...
and certainly not intended] and it's only really had negative effect. After too
long the game will become a frustration, the pizza is punishing on its own,
and the Irn-Bru 32 [avoid Red Bull] is doing damage, as always.

[naut]

Drink lots of water: that should stop your headache, because your headache is most likely due to dehydration. Then you'll need to use the toilet more, so you'll have to take more breaks. And you can see where this is going. And personally I'd never (and I actually mean never) take Paracetamol.

[CountArach]

Practice. Start playing slightly more each day before you do it to desensitise yourself to the screen refreshing, then just jump into it. Also if you can see the refresh rates of the computer screen take a small braek for the toilet or a drink/snack.

But yeah Rythmic is right, lots of water.

[LittleGrizzly]

get everything you need within touching distance (anything unhealthy usually helps) then just get sucked in and hours fly by! i find coca cola helps my headaches might just mean im addicted to caffiene though...

[Xiahou]

I never game for more than a couple hours at a time anymore. But, sore eyes are usually because people forget to blink as much when staring at a screen and your eyes begin to dry out. This can be helped with a dry eyes or "tears" type eye drops. Just FYI.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

I never game for more than a couple hours at a time anymore. But, sore eyes are usually because people forget to blink as much when staring at a screen and your eyes begin to dry out. This can be helped with a dry eyes or "tears" type eye drops. Just FYI.

Gaming for more than a few hours in a row/per day generally gets old pretty quickly too. I almost never game for very long periods of time anymore, though I guess I did today but that is the exception due to a really long week.

I also take frequent breaks, mostly to get water, that seems to help, though it does cause a lot of runs to the bathroom.

[Papewaio]

If you want to do it for long periods of time (Not 24 hr by the way).

Then treat it like a day at work.

Get up, eat a complex carb breakfast, shower. (all the time planning the strategy)

Play the game for 1.5 hours. Go and exercise for an hour. Play for 1.5 hours. Have lunch for an hour. Play 1.5 hours. Have a half hour coffee break. Play again for an hour or two.

By the PC keep trail rations, fruit (banana or something not to juicy), water.

It is far better to break up the play as much as possible. You can still plan strategy away from the PC (you might even dream about it). But continous play will only dull your reactions and enjoyment.

It is better to play it for 40 hours in a week like a job and at the weekend still feel fresh and fine.