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POLL: How much of your income do you dedicate to games?

Thu, 27 March 2003 14:13

yucaf

Master Chief Petty Officer

Messages: 100
Registered: December 2002
Location: India

Salary and Games spendings[ 32 votes ]
1.	I have a hacked serial	1 / 3%
2.	I can barely purchase a discount serial number for Stars 2.x	4 / 13%
3.	I have 2 serials or more	7 / 22%
4.	I will be able to buy a license for S!SNG	15 / 47%
5.	I will purchase enough licenses to play multiplayer with my friends	1 / 3%
6.	I will buy 16 licenses and have a room with a network to play all night long	0 / 0%
7.	I can fund the rest of the game and even then I will buy a license	0 / 0%
8.	Look, I want to exchange Oil for S!SNG licenses	4 / 13%

Hey guys, I just though this poll was missing.

Of course it's just for fun, to get a laugh in this very sad moment. Please do not take it seriously Cool

YucaF

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Re: POLL: How much of your income do you dedicate to games?

Sun, 04 May 2003 05:51

Robert

Lt. Junior Grade

Messages: 393
Registered: November 2002
Location: Dortmund, Germany

Much more intersting:

how much of your TIME do you dedicate to Stars! ???

and: how much of that to playing and how to diplomacy ???

I wount start a poll, just give me some numbers...

Robert

2b v !2b -> ?

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Re: POLL: How much of your income do you dedicate to games?

Fri, 09 May 2003 02:04

zoid

Ensign

Messages: 348
Registered: December 2002
Location: Murray, KY - USA

Money? Back in the old days when the Commodore 64 was king, I bought every single new game I seen hit the shelves. Not so much anymore. It's kinda like movies when I was a teenager - it was easy to go see everything that came out, but now there's just too many to keep up with, and I'm less interested because of it. Same with computer games. Now they all look the same, and I browse and decide there's really nothing I want to spend any money on even if it's only a few dollars on the discount rack. Maybe I'm just getting tight-fisted in my old age.

Time? Well, I'm only playing in two Stars games atm (not counting one duel with turn submissions once every week or so and currently very early in the game). I don't know how much time I spend doing the turns and diplomacy, or testbedding, exactly. A lot.

If it's not Stars, it'd just be some other computer game. For years after I quit playing Stars, I played Everquest. I liked role-playing female characters because females can do most anything (except behave like guys) and the more you do the more you endear your character to the others (there were MANY male characters who gave their lives so that my female character could live). Laughing

I said all that to say this: More than once it occurred to me that I spent more time in a year pretending to be a female than I spent in real life acting as a man and a husband. Embarassed

My current Stars existance probably rivals my earthly real life existance for time consumption.

I come home from work, grab a beer and a mug, sit down at the computer, and before I know it it's 2am or later (and I have to be to be to work at 7am). I have time to take a hasty shower in the morning, eat a hasty dinner with the wife in the evening (occasionally), grab a quicky when I need one Twisted Evil

and almost time for half the amount of sleep I actually need.

But if I start a third game I'm going to have to quit my job. Very Happy

I'M NOT AN EXPERT AND I'M OFTEN PROVEN WRONG. TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN YOU READ MY POSTS.
Math? Confused

Ummm, sure! Nod

I do FREESTYLE math.

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Re: POLL: How much of your income do you dedicate to games?

Sat, 10 May 2003 23:54

Ron

Commander
Forum Administrator
Stars! AutoHost Administrator

Messages: 1231
Registered: October 2002
Location: Collegedale, TN

zoid wrote on Fri, 09 May 2003 02:04

But if I start a third game I'm going to have to quit my job. Very Happy

Then definetly don't start a third game! Your family is more important.

I played EQ for a few months, High-Elf Enchanter (male), got to lvl 16 before I quit.

[Updated on: Sat, 10 May 2003 23:55]

Ron Miller
Stars! AutoHost

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Re: POLL: How much of your income do you dedicate to games?

Mon, 12 May 2003 18:38

zoid

Ensign

Messages: 348
Registered: December 2002
Location: Murray, KY - USA

Ron wrote on Sat, 10 May 2003 20:54

I played EQ for a few months, High-Elf Enchanter (male), got to lvl 16 before I quit.

Awww, you quit before it got really good! Enchanters are lots of fun from 29 upwards. That's mostly what I've played, too.

I'M NOT AN EXPERT AND I'M OFTEN PROVEN WRONG. TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN YOU READ MY POSTS.
Math? Confused

Ummm, sure! Nod

I do FREESTYLE math.

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Re: POLL: How much of your income do you dedicate to games?

Mon, 19 May 2003 08:42

Verker

Master Chief Petty Officer
VML mod guy

Messages: 99
Registered: January 2003
Location: Vienna, AUT

a) I spend too much of my income on games and hardware in general

b) Stars! eats up too much of my freetime, but I seem unable to do anything against (addicted???)

c) I have enough serials and a home network, but I cannot manage to get my friends to play Stars! - after they have seen it, they tell me I should visit the doctors on a regular basis Wink