My perfect day playing ED

Minti2

Deadly, But very fluffy...
This is how i envisage most of my life on ED release

Its Friday(day off! woohoo!) i always get up early so.......

5.45Am up and bleary eyed go to living-room, computer switched on first! then kitchen and kettle on, feed cat, run back and load up ED, check forums and begin to play, just do a few trade runs first.

One hour later wife shouts down, "wheres tea!?" finish latest trade run and run upstairs with tea, she begins to chat i begin to get frustrated, left ED at an important point! say yes to everything wife says and manage to get away!

About to go into combat when wife ready to go to work and needs my car moving!
Hide ship quickly in asteroid field, listening out hoping i don't hear any pew pew while saying goodbye to wife who insists again on talking about irreverent stuff, what Tracy from accounts did (never met her) or details of our grown up kids wedding...now sweating! to much time wasted! :p

Say goodbye to wife for at least 8hrs! same with cat 10hrs(unless she jumps on computer keyboard wanting fed! cat not missus!)

Phone off, door will not be answered, coffee on the go, brush teeth but going no where so don't wash :eek::D

Settle into new computer chair, and find ship still in one piece, at least eight hours play time!.. trading, exploring, upgrading, combat that's the first 30 minutes!

Lunch is for wimps, but grab sticky Belgium bun and more coffee midday in-between space-station stops, check forums and catch latest gossip and any new tips, abuse psykokow on the Thargoid thread, and catch up with other Imperial or non faction mates for they been up to on ED...not to long though! game to be played!

4pm traditional wine/beer opening times, bung in some crap processed food into oven for wife's dinner or better still order takeaway later (note i actually love cooking fresh food, game will turn me from gym fitness freak to fat gaming geek!..hey that's life!)

Wife turns up, cat fed, wife fed and then on her own tablet, more gaming continues although now slightly mellow due to wine...but am braver to Grrrrrr!!! :mad::mad::mad:

Take 5 min break and realize its dark now, in fact its 11pm......decide to end soon.......1am later!
Having played ED all day i now dream some weird crazy nightmare of ED consisting trading numbers, Franks bottles of Jinx talking to me and combat where i keep losing! sleep not good.....

Up early though anyway and its Saturday! same routine starts all over again!!!!

Woo hoo! :rolleyes:.................life is good :smilie:

This sound anything like your day? or am i just over the top? ;)
 
Is every Friday a day off?! :eek: Day sounds good to me, though my back, eyes and wrists, and no doubt wife will not let me maintain such a relentless pace!

Give it a damn good go though :D
 

Minti2

Deadly, But very fluffy...
Is every Friday a day off?! :eek: Day sounds good to me, though my back, eyes and wrists, and no doubt wife will not let me maintain such a relentless pace!

Give it a damn good go though :D

Good stuff! :)

Yep, i enjoy flextime(bank work) last eight years working for deaf/blind, love the job and means i pick and choose my own hours, hols etc......i will have plenty of time for ED...i will try visit the outside world sometimes to though! ;)
 
Good stuff! :)

Yep, i enjoy flextime(bank work) last eight years working for deaf/blind, love the job and means i pick and choose my own hours, hols etc......i will have plenty of time for ED...i will try visit the outside world sometimes to though! ;)


Outside worlds even ;)

I take my hat off, must be a great job to go to do each day. I spend my day in front of a computer, so will have to find excuses to get away from monitor if I am going to attack E-D in the evening. Already warned off missus about over indulgence on computer at the turn of the year, if I'm gonna be a half decent wingman.
 

Philip Coutts

Volunteer Moderator
Fully intend to do the same except for putting kids to school and picking them up at some point from after school club (wonder how late they can stay!?)
 

Minti2

Deadly, But very fluffy...
Outside worlds even ;)

I take my hat off, must be a great job to go to do each day. I spend my day in front of a computer, so will have to find excuses to get away from monitor if I am going to attack E-D in the evening. Already warned off missus about over indulgence on computer at the turn of the year, if I'm gonna be a half decent wingman.

lol so many worlds!

yeah money rubbish but rewarding job, wife great job, so helps!

Yep we need time for mission Ops together as well!...you see what Michael said earlier about solving mysteries out in space to? sounds intriguing!
 

Minti2

Deadly, But very fluffy...
@Philip Coutts lol 10pm?....best thing to keep wife/partner on board is get kids involved to.....tell them to find planet x or y on star map(will take forever!) you keep playing, doing your bit with kids then ;)
 
I work shifts and I 'used' to get 8 hours a day at home by myself when my wife went to work.

Since our daughter was born though I don't think I've had 5 minutes at home alone so my computer time is, shall we say, rationed!

Can't wait for wifey to go back to work so I get more time at home 'doing DIY' or something less boring instead! Yes that's right, playing E : D!!!
 
I will try to find a solution for not doing as Frontier Elite II. Play up to 3-4 hours in the morning, no no no ! I have some apprehension with it. My ideal day is to play 3-4 hours in the evening the weekends and one or two evenings a week.
But never after one hour in the morning, never !
 
I've been divorced for 8 years now, so minus the wife and add two cats. Just with one cat, don't let him think you've got freeze-dried shrimp treats, its like crack to him. He will attack you....:eek:

So, aside from that I can see the similarities, at least for a short time :).
 
Not sure how my long term ED playing will pan out, but I can say with 100% certainly this will occur for the first weekend it is launched:

Say to girlfriend I'm going to play ED at my flat, see you in a few days... :D She's an understanding soul.
 
Since our daughter was born though I don't think I've had 5 minutes at home alone so my computer time is, shall we say, rationed!

Be glad you only got one...try having three, all between the ages 2-4!! :eek:
(Had a daughter since before and then we got twins.) Love them more than anything though! :)

Basically I think the choice stands between sleep or playing ED...and we all know what's gonna win. :p
 
I may be able to pull of some gaming during the week, but it will mostly take place on Saturdays and Sundays. On Saturdays, I will get up at around 6:30 and will have some alone-time before the rest of the family (wife and the kid) get up at around 7:30. That time I can use to play E:D. Then, after breakfast and morning activities, I _may_ be able to squeeze in another half hour or so of E:D before we have to go shopping or take some other sort of family time. Depending on how long that will take, I may have an hour or two in the afternoon to play again until we go to sauna. I may cut that short and squeeze in another half an hour of gaming before my wife comes out and then it is time to eat dinner and get some more family time in... So, that's about 2.5-3 hours of gaming on Saturdays, if I'm lucky.

On most Sundays, I may have a bit more time since we will mostly stay at home. But then it is dependent on whether my 5-year-old girl likes Elite or if wants me to play some other (not necessarily computer) games with her instead...
 
You must schedule wee-breaks, Gunman. Run, don't walk, to the little boys' room and you might avoid deep vein thrombosis too ;)
 

Minti2

Deadly, But very fluffy...
You must schedule wee-breaks, Gunman. Run, don't walk, to the little boys' room and you might avoid deep vein thrombosis too ;)

I have a downstairs loo so i did a fake trail RUN(walk) to see how long it took for a medium sized wee(beer/wine may take longer!).....32 seconds and that's washing hands to, so minus washing hands its even shorter! :eek: but that's not an option even for me!
Happy with times though!

Cat lays and plays with my feet under computer desk, that's my exercise to avoid thrombosis, i shall wear those special long socks with my shorts to...... and i will look special! :eek:

Am beginning to get worried about my own ED game time seeing some are only managing a few hours a week, but understandable with kids, been there myself.
Maybe it was fate that made me have kids at 17 so that i was destined to have as much time as possible when ED comes out :D
 

Sir.Tj

The Moderator who shall not be Blamed....
Volunteer Moderator
I'm seriously starting to worry about forum members sanity after reading this thread, :eek: and their bladder capacity. :D
 
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