Longest Time Played in a Single Sitting

[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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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