Saving Yourself From Yourself

[myxomatosii]

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

Hey what's that cool yet obnoxiously large picture in your signature from?
That looks like a cool game.

My trick is summoned mage bags. Before I log off I leave a corpse to keep the bags, this makes it so I only log on if I have a longer period of time because I have to go through the hassle of getting back to the corpse and if I loot the bags I then also need to find someone to duel me again. Although, this fails because lately I've been playing without the bags haha.

I find that when I browse forums I tend to locate people's post by their over-sized signatures, such as Rainbowdash's. So when I searched Everquest kunark in google images and that picture came up I was excited. On my original Kunark fold-out box (which I still have in perfect condition) that was the main photo on one of the fold-outs so it musters up a lot of nostalgia.

This is another one, it was the box art and I must have analyzed it a thousand times staring at all of the details and wondering what the creatures were (was a level 7 wizard in freeport). Oh, the photo..

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[Phased]

Haha yeah I kept the boxes for the original game and the first 3 expansions for quite some time. I was just being facetious in regards to its size.

[Darkwulf58]

Fate has seen me to the P99 Server. I simply have no choice in the matter, I must play as much as possible. Its what I was born to do. I'm ok with it....really.

[myxomatosii]

Originally Posted by Darkwulf58 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Fate has seen me to the P99 Server. I simply have no choice in the matter, I must play as much as possible. Its what I was born to do. I'm ok with it....really.

A hesitant squire accepts his task.

[Barrier]

I used to go home at lunch so that I could move my warrior on the boats to Kunark/Firiona Vie.

[Barrier]

By the way, that picture from Kunark is awesome.

[stormlord]

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

Today I compressed my Sony folder into a ZIP file and had it delete the original file. In order to play now I have to go through a 20 minute unzip process, that way I won't impulse log-on and can get some work done.

This could be because I only starting playing again two weeks ago and binged over spring break but I'm having trouble breaking off. I think staying in labs, away from my house, along with compressing the files has broken the cycle of 4am nights up at 8am.

Anyone else have issues like these and how did you solve them? Eg: Short term addiction on return.

It was easier when I came across the game at 14 years old, logon for 36 hours, play, passout for 9 hours and let brother play, wake up, play with dogs, brother passes out, take over. Continue. All on AOL, no one could call the house for days.

1) Learn about health. I've never had trouble getting 6-7+ hours of sleep. I always knew I needed my sleep. Work is sloppy without sleep and I feel miserable too. Maybe you're just the type of person that can go without sleep because: a) ignorance is bliss b) your body is not as sensitive to lack of sleep.
2) Play EQ before going to work, not before going to bed. I did this for a while because I hated waking up only moments before having to work. (wake up late = unhappy boss) It allowed me to sleep in on occasion too. And more than that, I was encouraged to go to sleep asap when I got home from work. And when I was playing EQ I could not overdo it without losing my job. The worst I could do is wake up early, but that was rare.

This is real-life advice from my days when I played EQ full-time in 2001-02.

Bottom line, I think playing EQ before going to work is my best advice. For me it was easier to go from EQ to work than from sleeping to work. But people's bodies and habits can be different.

Lastly.. I played anywhere from 4 to 5.5 hours on a workday in my peak. On weekends I would usually go out to buy sh** and get groceries, so I don't think I played anymore on weekends than on weekdays.

For people who have families, you obviously have less choices than I did.

But I can honestly say that playing more than 5 hours in a day has NEVER felt good to me. There's a certain activity level that the body needs so that you feel good. Too much sitting just makes a person sluggish.

[bluejam]

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

I got married and now none of my time is my own.

Works like a charm. Highly recommend.

So you let them cut off your balls? Cool.

[Odeseus]

It is all about what makes sense to YOU. Personally, I just really tried to separate "work" from "play." If I needed to study, I'd be in the library with the school's shitty internet. I literally *couldn't* play even if I had wanted to. If the library was closed, or if I had to pull an all-night paper writing session, I'd claim an unused classroom and stay in the building all night. The doors would lock, but only from the outside. I just had to be careful not to lock myself out.

When I was back in my apartment/door room, it was "play" time. I tried not to study there just to keep things separate.

The exception was when I wrote my master's. Quite a bit of that process was simply writing, re-writing, and re-writing some more. Literally hundreds of hours with no clear "finish" lines because of the way I write. I would spend an hour on a paragraph if it didn't feel right to me, and you just can't write endlessly for hours and hours and hours. At least I couldn't. What I did is find a camp like AC in OOT where you kill 1 (trivial) mob every 6 minutes or so. That way I'd write for 6 minutes, kill the PH, write 6 more minutes, rinse and repeat.

The problem is that you'll want to go camp something more involved. I just had to be disciplined enough to not do it.

[NenshouStar]

"All on AOL, no one could call the house for days."

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oh my, hahahahahahhahah, that's my laugh for the night,
also, yes. the whole GF aggro thing is true, just gotta find a clingy one.