Curse

Granamyr · Mar 16, 2005, 05:44 AM // 05:44

Stay up late tomorrow (Wednesday) or get up early on Thursday (or both) so that you're tired enough to go to bed right after work. Then you can wake up right at the BWE start time for your particular time zone and go until you hallucinate sometime Saturday morning.

Any of you students out there hardly need to plan a sleep schedule as any self-respecting gamer better have pulled an all-nighter at some point in their academic career. My record is 42 hours of being awake and I suppose I could have made 48 but there just wasn't a point to it.......that and the walls were starting to move.

bobert · Mar 16, 2005, 05:49 AM // 05:49

I have mine planned out already. Wake up a few hours earlier on Thursday Morning, and then go to bed about 4 hours early on Thursday night to wake up a few hours after the beta starts.

FluidFox · Mar 16, 2005, 05:53 AM // 05:53

73 hours... whooo. I knew it was getting out of hand when I got a phone call and picked up the soda bottle next to the phone and started talking into it. The answering machine had picked up by then, so I thought they could hear me. I didn't catch my mistake until I tried to hang the phone up...

But for this weekend I'll use the standard rotation I have for the last two. Take a 4-6 hour nap Thursday evening until half an hour before the event is set to open.. Then play for the next 18 hours. Take another 4 hour nap... Play for the next 18.... 4... 18...etc. That allows for ~52 hours of game time after you factor in time for eating and some sort of basic hygene.

Fezz · Mar 16, 2005, 05:54 AM // 05:54

Already got mine planned out. Doing the same thing I did last month. Goto bed real early Thursday night, wake up in time for the BWE to start(2a.m. here), play till I have to goto class, play between classes. Then I have to take a 4 hour break so I can drive to my parents house. Then play till I can't hold my eyes open. Saturday and Sunday, play from wake to sleep.

And I have been off Caffeine(sp?) for 3 weeks, so just a little should have a nice effect.

FireMarshal · Mar 16, 2005, 06:09 AM // 06:09

uhuh...

I'll be going working 8 hour days, so yeah, no playtime for me Thursday night, wont get on until Friday night. Yep....I have a life

Draken · Mar 16, 2005, 06:29 AM // 06:29

Bah why all this planning when you can just take some speed

. I will admit to staying up till i can't keep my eyes open but planning your weekend out... is their an AA for gamers?

BTW I don’t condone the use of drugs or alcohol... well maybe just drugs.

whiskas · Mar 16, 2005, 06:37 AM // 06:37

I have a test on friday, so what I'll do is goto bed early thursday night, I'm not staying up *hoping* that anet gets the servers up on time, not like they did in february. Then I wake up early around 7am and play until I have to go take the test, come back, and play non stop until monday, the cat in my avatar will do my sleeping for me. I have to cure 1 month of emptiness in 3 days

John Thomas · Mar 16, 2005, 06:47 AM // 06:47

So...I'm a teacher and Friday (what I like to call "Late Thursday Night") poses a bit of a problem...even with a nap, I can't stay up AND be worth a damn in the morning...I go to bed a bit extra early and set the alarm for around 3am...I take my laptop to work and play solid until the kids show up...I make sure that the kids in my internet class are working on something "constructive" and I play through lunch and breaks...usually only spend about two hours actually teaching (don't tell my boss)...The best part is, if my bos shows up, I look like I'm working on something and if they get too close....well...I minimize the screen and have my gradebook ready for a quick look...At the end of the day, I drive home and play until my eyes bleed...Last BWE was a 3 day weekend, this one falls on the first weekend of spring break...plenty of time to recover...I slept 4 hours during the last BWE...THIS time I won't run out of coffee

Rushing Wind · Mar 16, 2005, 07:24 AM // 07:24

Someone please tell me how I can keep my eyes peeled this entire weekend... I was thinking paper clips or something and stapling it to my head!

I'd be happy to have someone re-introduce me to sleep and the entire concept behind it once this weekend has ended. Til then... the zombie in me has awoken!

The only time I HAVE to miss is the first few hours once it opens since I'll be working until 6am! Once I'm on, and my wife is sleeping, I'll be all over this thing! Time to see the walls crawling once I'm done with this weekend!

Uthar · Mar 16, 2005, 02:08 PM // 14:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bahala

Someone please tell me how I can keep my eyes peeled this entire weekend... I was thinking paper clips or something and stapling it to my head!

Duct tape- it's the only way. I myself will go to bed early on Thurs. and wake up early on Fri. It saved me some grief last BWE, when they didn't get started until an hour or two before I got up... I slept right through that.

chalt2 · Mar 16, 2005, 02:15 PM // 14:15

Break toothpicks in half blunt the ends and use them to hold open eyelids. A second method would involve duct tape and super glue...but I would not recommend that one.....

Thundermaine Hilts · Mar 16, 2005, 04:48 PM // 16:48

Sleep?... Who needs sleep... only bathroom breaks, and those only when the eyes are floating!

Loviatar · Mar 16, 2005, 05:29 PM // 17:29

i will stay with a regular schedule and may get logged in by 8-10 fri morning
no more than 6 hours per day when i have the time (out of each 24)

Weezer_Blue · Mar 16, 2005, 09:03 PM // 21:03

without the limitations of school in the morning, i am nocturnal. and i can stay up very late (or early, depending on how you look at it) or stay awake for days (i think 5 is the record... and with hard work during the day time hours...)

Rellok · Mar 16, 2005, 09:14 PM // 21:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by Granamyr

My record is 42 hours of being awake and I suppose I could have made 48 but there just wasn't a point to it.......that and the walls were starting to move.

Nice, I was just above 48 when I saw two parallelograms (one blue, one pink) at the front of the lecture hall, floating there and rotating back and forth. So, I left.

Matt

Jormund · Mar 16, 2005, 09:15 PM // 21:15

Argh, English couldn't have come on a worse day, Friday. So I'm going to try and get to sleep early on Thursday so I can get up early enough to push about 2 hours of game in before class, and when I'm done with that, I will proceed with GW as usual. I plan to sleep very, VERY little this weekend.

Duality · Mar 16, 2005, 09:45 PM // 21:45

we have to go to a convention this wkend, so it's going to be:
- get off work at midnight
- pack
- play GW until collapse
- get up, and run to con
- do con until collapse sometime saturday night
- get up, come home and play GW until collapse

yeesh. we'll be dead come monday.

Dragonne · Mar 16, 2005, 09:45 PM // 21:45

I seem to have little trouble staying awake until I realize that maybe I should go to bed. Granted that realization time has come sooner and sooner as I've gotten into my 30's but it's still in the 48-50 hour range. I used to stay up 3-4 days at a time just because there were things to do.

I'll probably do the same as I have the last few weekends. Sleep immediately after work/dinner Thursday, wake up 15-20 minutes before game on, play until mid-day Friday (I take fridays off for BWEs, and this Saturday is also my birthday!), take a nap for a few hours, and start playing again once my guild gets home from work Friday evening. After that, it's anybody's guess as the when I'm awake and playing or napping, but I never take more than 4-5 hour breaks for naps.

Granamyr · Mar 16, 2005, 10:00 PM // 22:00

There's always that 4-6 hour timeframe that really kills you when pulling the all-nighter. Once you clear hour 30 or so, 30 to 40 is a breeze. Beyond 40 can be counter productive from a gaming standpoint because A LOT of things have slowed down in your body. I couldn't type anything accurately to save my life. Things start moving on screen that really aren't moving to say nothing of the walls and the floor.

There's also no such thing as a nap after a certain point because any sleep you get would rival that of a coma patient or animal hibernation. It's the best sleep you'll ever get in your life......and well worth whatever suffering you had to get there. All the better if that "suffering" was spent playing Guild Wars the whole time.

Blademaster · Mar 16, 2005, 11:28 PM // 23:28

Im a student and my dad works from home on our only computer which is in my parents room. Which means, Friday morning is gone for me. At around 4pm friday I will get on and not log off untill ~10 pm when my parents start cussing me out of their room

. Next morning about 8 am I will start again until ~10 pm once again. Next morning I got church and wont get home until about 12-12:30 pm. At that time ill be on untill 10 pm again. So in total I will only get about 22-25/72 hours!!!!!

ONLY A FRIGGING THIRD

:'( . If I had it my way.......Id be on all 72

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