The 12 levels of Immersion

[Spyder73]

"if the decent into total addiction was 12 steps, what # step is the step you take right before losing your job over Everquest?" – Iruinedyourday

An interesting question. I believe this is the progression one needs to follow in order to achieve total immersion. Please feel free to add your thoughts (Not you Caldabolg - you pathetic piece of sh!t).

1) Installing Project 1999
2) Reaching level 50 on your first character
3) Joining a raiding guild
4) Getting on the Batphone list
5) First time you call in sick for the sole purpose of socking a raid mob
6) Quickly leaving a real life social event to answer a Batphone summons
7) Playing more than 50 hours in a single week
8) Growing a neck beard because there is no need to shave since you don’t leave your house accept to go to work.
9) Getting fired from a job for EQ related work performance decline.
10) Getting divorced because your immersion level has hit 10 and your wife has started cheating on you because all you do now is not work and play EQ.
11) Losing custody of your children because EQ has total control of your soul
12) Stop playing P99 all together and focus solely on Forumquest meme’s and GIFs.

[am0n]

Originally Posted by Spyder73 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

12) Stop playing P99 all together and focus solely on Forumquest meme’s and GIFs.

Heh.

Heh.

[Swish]

Who would you put at 12 at the moment?

[Raije1000]

Originally Posted by Swish [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Who would you put at 12 at the moment?

You have gotta be a 12.

[Priceline]

s'ok to skip steps 2 through 11?

[indiscriminate_hater]

this should be on a total points scale. assign 1, 2, or 3 points per bullet depending on how sad each one is. if your total is < 6, you're okay! 7-12 is danger zone. 13-18 means you've given up on shaving your neck. 19+ means you mass-order socks on Amazon

[BahamutDF]

13) Abandon forumquest in favor of cosquest

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[Lulz.Sect]

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[Shjade]

*checks 1, 2, and 7...and that's it*

I'd put raiding and batphones much deeper in the list than a simple # hours played, but that's just me.

[Spyder73]

Originally Posted by Shjade [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

*checks 1, 2, and 7...and that's it*

I'd put raiding and batphones much deeper in the list than a simple # hours played, but that's just me.

In hindsight you are 100% correct - playing 50+ hours each week definitely happens before you start wanting to join raiding guilds and get on the batphone. Those items needs to be adjusted for sure.

13) EQCosplay - definitely needs to be added somewhere in here, thats next level dedication/naustiation.

But this is why i posted, so we can iron the wrinkles out. This is just a rough draft.

It would be more beneficial to take actually stories and add them to the immersion progression - for example, "Swish was banned from the Fennin Ro server for attaching nude pictures of himself to all his guild applications" - Or "Johnny Asshole got caught playing EQ at work and was fired from his 100k a year job, last week his house was repossessed and he moved back in with his mom". Real life experiences would really add some legitimacy.