Longest Time Played in a Single Sitting

[LittleLostThief]

Saw this in ask the staff, and really wanted to move it here as I have a little experience with this subject.

I'll start by saying that the longest time that I played in one sitting was 34 1/2 hours.  That was active, awake, at the keyboard play with only a few stops for the bathroom and such.  There were some slow parts of course, especially during the late night... but there was always SOMETHING for me to be doing.

I was very proud of myself for this accomplishment and I asked the staff what the longest stint any character had in the game...

It's a little skewed, because oldschool there were apparently people that would draw their metal swords and leave their character while going to sleep themselves.  This allowed them to accumulate days of playing time during each log in session, and I'm sure that it would be highly frowned upon now.

I'm still curious as to see how long other players have devoted to the game in one sitting.

Please don't send me off to the crazy house... again.

[RogueGunslinger]

I've probably done about eighteen hours, but that's debatable. I need sleep.

I, however, Haven't missed a day of play in the past three months that I've been playing, except for when I was out of town for a week. And then I still managed to play for six out of seven of those days.

[Gimfalisette]

I think I did like 14 hours once and was totally horrified when I looked at my login time.

[touringCompl3t3]

I feel like I'm at such a disadvantage.  My arthritis starts to kill me after I've been awake for about thirty hours, making any game session longer than about sixteen hours downright unbearable.  That being said, my hat is off to anyone who can Arm it for more than thirty hours.

[Dan]

Im working on mine right now I guess, might have been longer way back in the day but that was too many years ago to remember.

For recent time I logged on at 11:00am this morning central time, and its 2:32am. I havn't had enough free time to log off, stuff is happening nonstop.

[LauraMars]

Thirty-four and a half hours?  Jesus, man...jesus.

[Maybe42or54]

I think I went overboard once and was actually playing Arm for about 8 hours.

[manonfire]

Yeah, I clocked six hours or so once. I felt dirty.

[Mood]

Yeah, I clocked six hours or so once. I felt dirty.

Lightweight.

[Fathi]

I think I've managed 12-14 hours logged in, back when I was on night shift. However, when I play at work, it's usually "play for 45 minutes to an hour, idle for half an hour while you get a phonecall/visitor/fax/have crap to do, rinse, repeat" so I'm not sure how long my actual 'longest time actually PLAYING without interruption' would be.

[Rhyden]

I managed to play an unhealthy chunk of time during the Copper Wars. Other than that, I can't play for much more than four five hours without a break.

[Qzzrbl]

One day.... I'm gonna stock up on eats, grab a bedpan, and play for 48 hours with no breaks....

[JustAnotherGuy]

You would...  That is if you can keep the character alive

[Qzzrbl]

Just gotta steer clear of Gortoks.... >_>;;

[FuSoYa]

At about hour 5 or 6 of login time I realize my playing starts to get dingy and I need to recharge my 'batteries'.  That being said I've done 8+ multiple times. 

Brandon

[Cutthroat]

My longest ever was probably 10 hours or so. I manage to get in 8 once in a while.

[LittleLostThief]

I do want to say that I was specifically trying to break a record with how much time I played that once.

I do probably play too much to be healthy, but 34 and 1/2 hours is not my standard fare.

[Zoltan]

I've pulled 8 or 9 hour active log in times on a couple of occasions. I don't like to play for long stretches, though. I find my playing declines sharply the longer I've been on. I average about one and a half to three hours a day during the week, and I don't find myself logging in at all during the weekends. (Unfortunately)

[Desertman]

I was always afraid I would die from doing stupid things while sleepy...While I still wanted to play...I would force myself to sleep.

So, with my third character, (it was during the summer when I was in Junior High, so nothing to do for weeks on end), I would wake up at 6:00AM, and play a straight twenty hours until 2:00am, go back to sleep for four hours until my alarm clock went off, get back up, and play for another 20 hours.

I dont know how many hours I had on that character, but I had him for atleast two straight months doing this, then another four after school started, and I still stayed up and only got four hours of sleep even after I was back in class, until this PC died...I never even knew the score command existed until after he was dead.

So, I would say 20 hours straight is my limit...I had the exact time all of my clan members would log on down to a tee....I'm sure they all wondered why I would always contact them almost instantly after they got on..."Want to spar?"...The reason I picked 2am to 6am as my sleeping time is this was generally when Stevith and Kyros would have to log off, and noone else would be online until Thalina got back on at 6am my time...(Yes, even after 8 years I still remember all of thier names lol).

I was going a little crazy during this time, I had got to where I thought I could predict changes in in game weather, and I even swore I would get "strange" feelings when something "bad" was about to happen to our group.

I truly honestly believed and would argue with everyone who told me..."You need to take a break and do some real life stuff"...that Armageddon was its own alternate reality...I would tell them..."Think about it this way, what you consider the real world, I consider the fake world. I spend 20 hours of my life every day in Armageddon, living that life, and only 4 hours a day in this life, who is to say whats real and what is fake? You live your existence, I will live mine"...Yeah, I had some problems back then.

I will say that I lost 45lbs in two months doing this. I was bound and determined to prove everyone wrong who said..."Sitting there is going to be bad for your body like that"...so I constantly worked out next to my desk during the slow times in game.

Wow, I got really off course there....anyways, 20 hours is my limit.

[Krath]

20-22 hours For me was my best I think.

[LauraMars]

That's a very interesting story, Desertman.

[Sephiroto]

36 hours back in 2003, the summer after graduation.

[Dalmeth]

I've never really played in one sitting for over 12 hours or so, even back when I didn't have a job for one good reason :  I like to enjoy my meals.  So, I tend to take a few hours whenever it comes time to eat and relax a bit or tend to other pressing matters before logging back in.

[Sokotra]

I will say that I lost 45lbs in two months doing this. I was bound and determined to prove everyone wrong who said..."Sitting there is going to be bad for your body like that"...so I constantly worked out next to my desk during the slow times in game.

I think you were actually just on crack or meth and wanted to play the game rather than eat from the sound of it.  Heh. 

You crackhead... or just crackageddon-head maybe...

[jhunter]

Around 36 hours once.

[Armaddict]

Twenty-seven hours for me, I believe.

[Qzzrbl]

Once school goes out, I'm gonna go for 48 straight hours.

[LittleLostThief]

Once school goes out, I'm gonna go for 48 straight hours.

Go go go!  You can do it!  Set the bar high!

Everyone should donate sugar and caffeine to your mighty cause.

[psionic fungus]

Hah.

I had some ridiculously long play-times during my junior-high, high-school, and post-high-school days (like, I spent a year after high-school doing little other than getting stoned and playing Arm).  I know that I have logged over 24 hours at a time, and I remember specifically having been playing for about a day and a half at one point when my mom made me go grocery shopping with her.  It was quite surreal, but I don't remember much other than that.

That said, it's really unhealthy.

I think that the more time I spend outdoors with real people, away from Armageddon, the better I feel.

Sunny days are coming, kids...

[Dan]

Yes, it is sunny outside where I am and albeit 35 degrees, no wind... but thats 70 degrees warmer than it was all last week.

So I popped in the new jack johnson and opened the sun roof. I love it.

[Clegane]

35 hours and 17 minutes. I noted it down at the time in sheer awe and disgust. I will confess, however, that I was dozing at the keyboard for at least part of it and still have the burn scar on my right middle finger where my Lucky Strike lit me on fire in my dreamlike haze.

I will note with further shame that I actually beat my own record last year on WoW when I pulled 41 hours non-stop while becoming the first Warlock to 70 on Steamwheedle Cartel.

Shameful.

[Reiloth]

35 hours and 17 minutes. I noted it down at the time in sheer awe and disgust. I will confess, however, that I was dozing at the keyboard for at least part of it and still have the burn scar on my right middle finger where my Lucky Strike lit me on fire in my dreamlike haze.

I will note with further shame that I actually beat my own record last year on WoW when I pulled 41 hours non-stop while becoming the first Warlock to 70 on Steamwheedle Cartel.

Shameful.

L.S.M.F.T, bitches.

[allieday1]

Desertman got me hooked on this game sometime back ..Damn him in many ways but then again from the day I started and between charaters waiting to come alive I haven't logged out yet. Just joking but I think I ran a good 24 play times back in the day when I was in Kurac. I remember having to call in sick because I noticed the sun was up and I started sometime friday after work and seen it would be monday morning. And to this day I can easy pop a good 15 hour nonstop game on weekends and a 4to 6 on weekdays.

[FiveDisgruntledMonkeysWit]

I doubt I've ever played longer than 8 hours at a time. Although I have been known to play for five or so, log out, attempt to go to sleep, fail, and then log back on for another six hours of play.
Heh, I wish I could do some of those 20+ hour power sessions, though. It'd be interesting, especially considering that I prefer to play mages. If the rumors are right, with some mild powergaming thrown in, I imagine I could branch a few spells in a 20-hour session. Which means my mage would go from a mewling, scared-out-of-his-mind elementalist to a mage of competent power in less than an IC week.
Which would be hilarious, especially as exhaustion mounts, and you consider the inverse ratio of my character's power and my ability to wield it responsibly.

Hour 1:

Code Select Expand

Bowing his head, you say, in sirihish:
"Yes, Lord Templar. I will serve the Highlord faithfully."

You place a dull black gem around your neck.

The chubby, bearded templar smiles viciously at you.

Hour 3:

Code Select Expand

Flicking his wrist, a bit of flame dancing from his fingertips, you say, in sirihish:
"Ah, I see. When I intone 'yuqa', the flames become hotter, but I feel more of my own inner fires siphoning away..."

Nodding sagely, the figure in the hooded red robes says, in sirihish:
"Yes. Precisely."

You say to the figure in the hooded red robes, in sirihish:
"I think I'm beginning to understand the basic concepts behind the words of magick. Thank you, Master."

Nodding again, the figure in the hooded red robes says, in sirihish:
"Of course, my boy. Now, if you'll excuse me, I think I'm going to turn in for the night..."

The figure in the hooded red robes walks east.

You furrow your brow in concentration, a large arc of flame glimmering at your fingertips.

Hour 15:

Code Select Expand

The figure in the hooded red robes has arrived from the east.

Smiling at you from beneath his hood, but still clearly a bit surprised, the figure in the hooded red robes says, in sirihish:
"Ah... Amos. Still practicing, I see? Well, I must say I certainly respect your discipline..."

Rising from his meditation stance and nodding once, you say, in sirihish:
"Yes, Master. I haven't been able to sleep. I've been trying to puzzle out a new curse... one to melt an opponent's brain from the inside. Lord Templar Malik Fale suggested I give it a try."

Frowning a bit, the figure in the hooded red robes says, in sirihish:
"Funny... I've been working on a similiar spell for months, at the very same templar's request..."

Flippantly, you say, in sirihish:
"Yes, well, I was thinking that some erdlu talons as a material component, combined with an invocation of the sphere of 'morz,' perhaps, might do the trick."

With a condescending chuckle, the figure in the hooded red robes says, in sirihish:
"I doubt that will work, my boy."

You utter an incantation.
The figure in the hooded red robes crumbles to the ground, twitching, his brains leaking through his ears.

Smiling faintly, you say, in sirihish:
"Oh you do, do you?"

Hour 26:

Code Select Expand

You shout, in sirihish:
"I CAN SEE TIME!!!"

You utter an incantation.
A dull black gem shatters, freeing you.

You utter an incantation.
You melt the chubby, bearded templar's face off with a blistering guitar solo.

You utter an incantation.
You tear a hole in reality. The flaming nothingness of absolute arcane power overwhelms your senses.

Welcome to Armageddon!

[Ourla]

rofl, 5DMW. 

I usually try not to play longer than five or six hours at a sitting.  Children tend to become loud when they begin to starve.   

[psionic fungus]

Are you reading the GDB from school?  For Shame!

[Ourla]

Hey, it's better than school itself. 

[RogueGunslinger]

Hey, it's better than school itself. 

No doubt. I play arm in some of my classes.

[AmandaGreathouse]

I average six to eight hours, 21 1/2 would be my longest I believe.

[RoannTantreal]

Anybody happen to know how to play Armageddon (safely) From an NMCI Computer?

Oh please?

[Maybe42or54]

No.. I wouldn't do it even if you could.

[RoannTantreal]

No.. I wouldn't do it even if you could.

You don't have to work the GeeDunk.

Though this is probably a dark and sinister path I'm following.

[Vessol]

Max time? Probably 5-6 hours. This is rare and usually only during RPT's and HRPT's.

[Malken]

That's funny, 5-6 hours is my minimum play.

[Tisiphone]

For certain definitions of safe, an ssh tunnel might do the trick.

Note that this definition may or may not include penal actions under the UCMJ

[Gunnerblaster]

Longest I've pulled must be... Roughly 16-18 hours, in one log in. But that's if something -really- crazy is going on.

Typically, I pull maybe 2-4 hours, on the weekdays (unless I have something involving a life come up).

<-- Lightweight ARMer

[RoannTantreal]

For certain definitions of safe, an ssh tunnel might do the trick.

Note that this definition may or may not include penal actions under the UCMJ

Likely true. I can't think of a way to explain to the skipper why I was playing Arm during working hours :-P

[Synthesis]

Yeah, I was on duty one night when the officer of the day came roaming around.

So I had to leave my character idle on the North Road while I shot the shit with him for a few minutes.

Came back to sitting at 3 hp with a pack of gortok on me...just enough time to type fl...Welcome to Armageddon!

That character had some brutal stats, too.  Feh.

[Akaramu]

In the very distant past, about 8 hours a day, broken up into a few bits. Recently, nowhere near long enough.

The longest session without a break was I think about... 10 hours? I wanted to log off, then decided to wait for something, and then wait a little longer... then bad things, and more bad things happened, and finally it was 4 AM, I felt zombified and brain-dead, and screamed to myself that I should have logged out hours ago.

And all of it was totally Moe's fault, and I didn't even get to mudsex him. *shakes a fist*

Recently, I want to reconsider those old 8 hour Arm days to the exclusion of sleep, work, and uni. My current PC's boss rocks my socks off. 

[RoannTantreal]

Yeah, I was on duty one night when the officer of the day came roaming around.

So I had to leave my character idle on the North Road while I shot the shit with him for a few minutes.

Came back to sitting at 3 hp with a pack of gortok on me...just enough time to type fl...Welcome to Armageddon!

That character had some brutal stats, too.  Feh.

damn, that's terrible!

well, could be worse, YOU could have died :-P

[Vessol]

Man I don't get it...I got like a non-existent real-life, but I hardly spend any of the countless hours I have playing games...or well I split it up between various games...My max time ever for Arm would be around 6.5 hours. Stupid short-attention span!