Hi folks,
I've asked this question before, but either I didn't get a satisfactory answer or I am hard of learning or both:
How are you guys managing your play/login times for 1x games?
Seriously, I cannot figure it out. (It IS starting to look like I am hard of learning.) Here's what happens when I start a 1x game:
- I start the game
- I set up all my initial construction/research/troop movement
- I watch things progress really slowly until I get bored and log out
- I log back in later but too quickly and nothing has really happened yet, so I log back out.
- I put the game in the back of my mind and forget to log in until a really long time later, and every single asset has been sitting for a long time wasting time and doing nothing
- I get all caught up again and log out
- I log back in after what I think is a reasonable amount of time later, and almost nothing has transpired in the meantime, so I log back out
- I forget to log in for a really long time and the game passses me by so thoroughly that I might as well not even be playing at all
Now, the obvious answer, I suppose, is to be aware of upcoming times (units will arrive at x:xx time, etc.), but for me that means setting real life alarms or something. That's how 4x differs for me. I can remain aware that something is going to happen 60 minutes from now. If it's not going to happen until 4 hours from now with nothing much happening in between, though, there's a good chance it's not going to be on my mind when that four hours is up.
I've asked this question before, but either I didn't get a satisfactory answer or I am hard of learning or both:
How are you guys managing your play/login times for 1x games?
Seriously, I cannot figure it out. (It IS starting to look like I am hard of learning.) Here's what happens when I start a 1x game:
- I start the game
- I set up all my initial construction/research/troop movement
- I watch things progress really slowly until I get bored and log out
- I log back in later but too quickly and nothing has really happened yet, so I log back out.
- I put the game in the back of my mind and forget to log in until a really long time later, and every single asset has been sitting for a long time wasting time and doing nothing
- I get all caught up again and log out
- I log back in after what I think is a reasonable amount of time later, and almost nothing has transpired in the meantime, so I log back out
- I forget to log in for a really long time and the game passses me by so thoroughly that I might as well not even be playing at all
Now, the obvious answer, I suppose, is to be aware of upcoming times (units will arrive at x:xx time, etc.), but for me that means setting real life alarms or something. That's how 4x differs for me. I can remain aware that something is going to happen 60 minutes from now. If it's not going to happen until 4 hours from now with nothing much happening in between, though, there's a good chance it's not going to be on my mind when that four hours is up.
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