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.