How do some of you do it?

[pew_pew_magoo]

I can only play maybe 4 or 5 games before my attention spans derails. Even on a day off I can maybe play 12 games all day. I see of you guys with tens of thousands of games. That’s just astonishing to me. How do you do it?  

[OldSchoolGaming_Youtube]

It helps to be Shit-faced!

 

My recommendation is to do at least 2, 15 cl Negronis before each gaming session and also try and play with other day-drinkers ...... it takes the edge of the Sub/CV balancing and T10 Player Bots fiasco!

[Ensign Cthulhu]

Some of us are retired with all the time in the world to play every day.

Others are single, with free evenings and weekends. 

And some of us have attention spans that don't get derailed; or once we're on the trail of a grind, we won't let go until some mission or other is completed.

I don't know how long you've been playing, but WOWS celebrated its 9th anniversary this year and if you played just five battles a day every day since it went live out of Beta, you would be somewhere in the sixteen thousands by now. 

[Itwastuesday]

Playing these online games is kind of like junk food. It's not giving you much, but doesn't take effort either. And I'm way too lazy. 

[pew_pew_magoo]

4 minutes ago, OldSchoolGaming_Youtube said:

It helps to be Shit-faced!

 

My recommendation is to do at least 2, 15 cl Negronis before each gaming session and also try and play with other day-drinkers ...... it takes the edge of the Sub/CV balancing and T10 Player Bots fiasco!

When I was stationed in Germany 25 years ago, we drank St Pauli’s girl like it was water. 

[Wolfswetpaws]

17 minutes ago, pew_pew_magoo said:

I can only play maybe 4 or 5 games before my attention spans derails. Even on a day off I can maybe play 12 games all day. I see of you guys with tens of thousands of games. That’s just astonishing to me. How do you do it?  

One game at a time.  😉 

Edit:  And some of our games inspire us to write stories or track progress by jotting notes and/or creating records of some type.

Edited December 12, 2024 by Wolfswetpaws

[Ensign Cthulhu]

1 hour ago, pew_pew_magoo said:

we drank St Pauli’s girl

You drank girls? 😮

I suspect there's some autocorrect shenanigans going on there. You must mean gin, right?

Right? 😁

[Wulf_Ace]

2 hours ago, pew_pew_magoo said:

I can only play maybe 4 or 5 games before my attention spans derails. Even on a day off I can maybe play 12 games all day. I see of you guys with tens of thousands of games. That’s just astonishing to me. How do you do it?  

4-5 games is not little, since it could take you an hour for that.

[Wolfswetpaws]

11 minutes ago, Ensign Cthulhu said:

You drank girls? 😮

I suspect there's some autocorrect shenanigans going on there. You must mean gin, right?

Right? 😁

[Ensign Cthulhu]

5 minutes ago, Wolfswetpaws said:

Aha!!!

All is clear now!

Many thanks.

[pew_pew_magoo]

37 minutes ago, Ensign Cthulhu said:

You drank girls? 😮

I suspect there's some autocorrect shenanigans going on there. You must mean gin, right?

Right? 😁

After about 8 you start seeing more than one

[Snargfargle]

Calculating my 16,376 games over the 2,953 days I've played this game, I get about 5.5 games a day. It really doesn't seem like I've played that much because I may go months in the spring and summer and not play a single game. I guess those weekend gaming sprees in the winter add up though. You can easily get in two-dozen random matches a day on the weekend.

Edited December 12, 2024 by Snargfargle

[rjpyro]

3 hours ago, pew_pew_magoo said:

I can only play maybe 4 or 5 games before my attention spans derails. Even on a day off I can maybe play 12 games all day. I see of you guys with tens of thousands of games. That’s just astonishing to me. How do you do it?  

In my case when I created an account I had tons of doctor appointments, lots of physical therapy and just couldn't do much else. Actually my therapist suggested trying video games to help my eye hand coordination. So in between appointments I played the shit out of this game because I was very limited on what I could do. I still have issues and I still play daily. Thats where all my played games are from. (the dark days) And thanks to that therapist I am kind of hooked on the game.  

[I_cant_Swim_]

@rjpyro Welcome to the forum! Thanks for giving us your background - I hope your recovery continues. The game, as this forum, is good for many things!

[Verblonde]

4 hours ago, pew_pew_magoo said:

How do you do it?

Playing on and off for most of a decade (?), plus I tend to get a bit obsessive when I find a game I like...

[Wolfswetpaws]

48 minutes ago, rjpyro said:

In my case when I created an account I had tons of doctor appointments, lots of physical therapy and just couldn't do much else. Actually my therapist suggested trying video games to help my eye hand coordination. So in between appointments I played the shit out of this game because I was very limited on what I could do. I still have issues and I still play daily. Thats where all my played games are from. (the dark days) And thanks to that therapist I am kind of hooked on the game.  

If you got a "gaming additction" from your Therapist, then you also gained a Therapist addiction to cope with your gaming addiction?  😉 
Welcome to the game and to DevStrike.  🙂 

[Comrade_Friendly]

9 hours ago, OldSchoolGaming_Youtube said:

It helps to be Shit-faced!

 

My recommendation is to do at least 2, 15 cl Negronis before each gaming session and also try and play with other day-drinkers ...... it takes the edge of the Sub/CV balancing and T10 Player Bots fiasco!

When I read this, I thought of this sketch:
 

Are you from Sweden?    I went to Malmo once (it was really good).  I fucked up though as I'm from the UK and we went to the local club (called Ikonst I think).   I thought I'd buy a round of drinks like normal, but it cost nearly £100.   I had to suck it up though and say it was all cool, but goddamn, I'm never buying a round in Sweden again.

Good weekend though   : )

[MBT808]

I only play 3 or 4 games, otherwise I’d burn out. After that, I go work on a project or play a different game all together(Like Soulstone survivors at the moment).

[OldSchoolGaming_Youtube]

6 hours ago, Comrade_Friendly said:

Are you from Sweden?    I went to Malmo once (it was really good).  I fucked up though as I'm from the UK and we went to the local club (called Ikonst I think).   I thought I'd buy a round of drinks like normal, but it cost nearly £100.   I had to suck it up though and say it was all cool, but goddamn, I'm never buying a round in Sweden again.

Good weekend though   : )

Im from Gothenburg, a bit higher up on the coast from Malmö. The alkohol on pubs and restaurants can be quite expensive in Sweden, you kind of need to go for the happy hour places. A large pint of beer or a glas of wine in the city center can cost somewhere up towards 13-14 Euros, a nice drink/cocktail around 18-23 Euros. We have quite high tax on alkohol in Sweden, the reason were still alive.

[Admiral_Karasu]

15 hours ago, Wulf_Ace said:

4-5 games is not little, since it could take you an hour for that.

Or 4-5 minutes...

I have a similar problem, though, I sometimes feel I like run out of motivation very quickly these days. I don't know if I can analyze it that well, but it kind of feels like the game is missing too much of the sort of things that it used to offer me. I feel that I need now some sort of an excuse or a reason to play those battles in order to get motivated. I've also noticed that at the point when I start thinking about which ship I want to play next, I come up blank.

[Admiral_Karasu]

@rjpyro Welcome aboard!

[rjpyro]

13 hours ago, Wolfswetpaws said:

If you got a "gaming additction" from your Therapist, then you also gained a Therapist addiction to cope with your gaming addiction?  😉 
Welcome to the game and to DevStrike.  🙂 

Actually not new to the game. I have been playing since 2016. 

[Wulf_Ace]

50 minutes ago, Admiral_Karasu said:

Or 4-5 minutes...

I have a similar problem, though, I sometimes feel I like run out of motivation very quickly these days. I don't know if I can analyze it that well, but it kind of feels like the game is missing too much of the sort of things that it used to offer me. I feel that I need now some sort of an excuse or a reason to play those battles in order to get motivated. I've also noticed that at the point when I start thinking about which ship I want to play next, I come up blank.

playing tier 10 makes me wanna quit the game, but then I switch to tier 8 and enjoy the game.

currently I am enjoying clan battles 

[Wolfswetpaws]

Just now, rjpyro said:

Actually not new to the game. I have been playing since 2016. 

👍

[Estaca_de_Bares]

First of all, welcome to the forum @rjpyro. Now, on topic: compared to RTS times, I don't play as much nowadays, the global average being somewhere around three hundred battles per patch, all modes included. That said, some context must be added:

• I worked mostly evening-night shift and could even do so remotely half the time (one of the advantages of IT), which basically made me the guy standing watch until sunrise. WoWS allowed me to pass time waiting for the eventuality that hardly ever happened. Now I'm back to home tutoring so my daily working cycle shifted towards noon-afternoon, and dealing with young teenagers at an older age -even more important, doing so after the lockdowns, which massacred their willingness to pay attention and learn- can be pretty tiring, hence having little energy left for gaming. So far during this patch, I've tended to play the bare minimum to achieve my goals: enough battles to get the Christmas tree decorations, fulfil the daily progress in the BP, and maybe get the second daily container.
• I was a CV main in RTS times -which usually meant being the last man standing- so even a pure Randoms gaming session could be pretty long. Add into it that, unlike now, you couldn't use a ship again until its previous battle was over (which also affects the following point). Now I'm a DD main and experienced, so if I screw up hard early on, I can more or less accurately read what the outcome will be and jump into the next battle.
• I also was way more invested in Ranked back then (1235 battles, got to rank 1 once to obtain the Jolly Roger flag fair and square) and didn't switch ships much (e.g., I only had T8 Fubuki as a viable ship the first time I participated), hence usually staying as an observer until the end. By comparison, I've only played 980 battles in the current system, 7 Bronzes, 5 Silvers but not a single Gold.
• I played Operations and special modes relatively often too, which are very time-consuming when done right. I think it's close to two years since the last time I entered any standard Operation, and I haven't touched Star Trek battles.
• The CV rework first, then the burn-out by the lockdowns, took a toll on my motivation to play. Looking through the /replays folders of my backup copies of the game, among those belonging to RTS times quite the number of patches contain near five hundred (some -during holidays- even surpassing that mark) while a few others don't even reach triple digits, but there isn't a sigle one without any. Big numbers like those only happen in two patches (holidays both of them) after the rework, plus I've had a few relatively long hiatuses in playing which are reflected in the absence of certain patches' backups (10.10, 11.6-8, 12.1+6-11 and 13.1-2).

Salute.