Where do you find that sort of information would like to see waht I have done in the last 6 years
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I consider a waste of time something not enjoyed, so I'm a little confused by the statement. One must have downtime, if Co* is that downtime, there ya go.
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Originally Posted by milk_weasel
...Looking back it was a hell of a waste of time, but I certainly enjoyed it.
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Click on a citizen whose name starts with M and they'll tell you your time played on that character. N names tell you number of logins.
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Originally Posted by Prof_Radburn
Where do you find that sort of information would like to see waht I have done in the last 6 years
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Liberty
My 50s:
Hero: Armor Assassin (scrapper), Cross Dresser (scrapper), Surly Seaman (blaster), Defensive End (Tank), Rad Rhino (Cont)
Villain: Beast Infection (Corr), Sweet Zombie Jesus (MM), Milk Weasel (Stalker), Orgullo (MM), Agent Eris (Crab)
i think i more or less have the same stats as you, maybe few more 50s and or hours in game but pretty close
as houtex says i dont consider anything i enjoyed a waste of time
That is a lot of hours over the years. What is it? About 3 1/2 hours a day average give or take?
Yeah I dont view it as a waste of time anymore than any other pay to play activity in life. What I got out of it was enjoyment and many times, enjoyment isnt free.
Although I get what the OP is saying. I think in hindsight, if people knew the exact date the game was going to be shut off, I doubt many would put in 10,000+ hours in it if any at all. but hindsight is always 20/20 and the future is covered in a very thick fog of war that gets thicker further ahead a person try to see.
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Waste of time?
No. Not even close.
Granted, you could have been working a second job at the Quick-E-Mart and making money, but you'd probably burn out and need psych help, costing you all of that extra dosh.
You were entertained. On $12-15 a month. For years. You weren't spending $1,000's of dollars on comic books or movies or tickets to various sports events.
You weren't sitting passively in front of a boob tube.
You were active and engaged.
I fail to see "waste" here in any way, shape or form.
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I'm positive there's a bug with that, though. As we discussed in another thread last month, some of my characters were said to have played in the 3-4,000-hour range, which is quite literally impossible.|
Originally Posted by milk_weasel
Click on a citizen whose name starts with M and they'll tell you your time played on that character. N names tell you number of logins.
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Put it this way: if you work a standard 40-hour workweek with two weeks off for vacation every year, that's 2,000 hours a year. All in all, I've been an active subscriber for about 5 years since beta. If I played 40 hours a week for 5 years, that would be 10,000 hours. And there's no freakin' way I've played that many hours. I'm lucky to get 7 or 8 hours a week. I think I've played all of 10 hours in the past two months.
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Originally Posted by Ironik
I'm positive there's a bug with that, though. As we discussed in another thread last month, some of my characters were said to have played in the 3-4,000-hour range, which is quite literally impossible.
Put it this way: if you work a standard 40-hour workweek with two weeks off for vacation every year, that's 2,000 hours a year. All in all, I've been an active subscriber for about 5 years since beta. If I played 40 hours a week for 5 years, that would be 10,000 hours. And there's no freakin' way I've played that many hours. I'm lucky to get 7 or 8 hours a week. I think I've played all of 10 hours in the past two months. |
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HelinCarnate:OMG it is so terrible. I have the option to take 3 more powers but no additional slots. Boo F'ing hoo.
My time in CoH isn't a pissing contest.
I've spent many many hours in this game because it wasn't just fun, it was therapy for me. Gave me a refuge when the rest of the world was a nasty, dark, scary place.
I've deleted more 50s than I can count and I've put a lot of my soul into the game.
In my head many of my characters will live on, regardless of what the future holds - and just maybe they'll live again. But while it was here it did me good.
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Well I did start to work this out on 58 toons it would seem I have logged 9105 hours,there are still some I have not done and quite a few I have deleted in the 20/40 range,at a rough guess time played would be around the 13,000 hour mark.I have played a lot the past year as I have been off work getting treatment for cancer ,and about 4 years ago was out of work for 18 months so played a lot then.Do I consider it a waste of time no I have meet some very nice people thru the game and met up with them in RL too .
Prof Radburn controller,Celtic Ice Maiden,blaster,Miss Knockout scrapper,Mistress Davina controller,Stone Hart,tank Split Personality PB.Queen Lostris controller,Fridgid Mary blaster,Shocking Fire blaster Future Elfling defender, Little Weed controller,Capo Angelo MM, Commander Buzzsaw MM, Justice Tank tank all 50,s
For the last couple years I've been dual logging a lot to PL and marketeer. I also started letting friends use accounts and PvP IO farming overnight would have messed up a lot too. I'm not going to log on every character and add them up for those reason. Also, the following:
At one point at my life (I was 13), my schedule was
5am Wake up, CoH level/SO/team etc.
730am Go to school (Pretend to do school, make CoH builds Paper/Pen style)
330pm Back home, CoH PvP until 10pm
That's 9 hours daily, more on the weekends.
That was pretty normal for a lot us young guys on Justice and Champion.
In the summer it was worse, with that school part taken out. If my parents left for a week or so, I would sometimes start cutting into that sleep time as well. My first all nighter was with some friends on Justice, where I just skipped sleep to PvP in Siren's Call.
I'd actually rather not know how many hours I spent in total. I think I went into the 'unhealthy' side of it for a while. An addictive game is a powerful thing when paired with a young kid with 0 responsibility. If any adults or parents are reading this, remember that (Although I turned out fine <<). I couldn't dream of doing that now.
Luckily that was only for about 2 years. From i6 (PvP Zones) to around i11 (Last memory: How invincible those WP tanks were).
I have taken breaks before and after that time. Originally, my brother bought the game (Account says time card used on July 31 2004 for 60 days), and he quit around i3. I kept playing then.
I think I have spent more time in PvP zones than out.
To the OP and everyone who has spent many hours, I feel your pain.
I forgot to mention, I spent all that time (2 years) on 1 character, in 1 zone. Possessed Prowler (EM/SR stalker) on Justice in Siren's Call. I'll go find out how many hours -he- has though, out of curiousity.
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August 31, 2012. A Day that will Live in Infamy. Or Information. Possibly Influence. Well, Inf, anyway. Thank you, Paragon Studios, for what you did, and the enjoyment and camaraderie you brought.
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This says it all for me.
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I've spent many many hours in this game because it wasn't just fun, it was therapy for me. Gave me a refuge when the rest of the world was a nasty, dark, scary place. I've deleted more 50s than I can count and I've put a lot of my soul into the game. In my head many of my characters will live on, regardless of what the future holds - and just maybe they'll live again. But while it was here it did me good. |
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Originally Posted by milk_weasel
That's the number of hours I put into the game since I started playing shortly after it went live. I lost the will to play since the news of the shutdown, seeing as it all seems pointless to make any progress now. But I decided I should chronicle all of my characters so I went in and got images, level, bios, hours played and other info. I figured I would share some of it as my way of saying goodbye.
Number of undeleted characters: 56 Number on Liberty: 36 AT Breakdown: 3 spiders, 3 blasters, 7 brutes, 2 controllers, 8 corruptors, 7 defenders, 2 dominators, 7 masterminds, 1 kheldian, 9 scrappers, 4 stalkers, 3 tankers Recurring powersets: 7 claws, 4 dark melee, 3 dark miasma, 5 radiation emission, 5 regeneration Total time played: 10,029.77 hours Total levels gained: 1640 Number of 50s: 17 Favorite Character: Cross Dresser (50) Spine/Dark Armor Scrapper. 3526 hours. 1378 badges. Looking back it was a hell of a waste of time, but I certainly enjoyed it. Feel free to post some of your own stats if you'd like. |
i don't think i will even attempt to figure my total hours out. How would i factor in all the hours put into the deleted characters, especially those who were 30+? Just trying to log in every existing character to get their current totals would take over an hour.
i suppose if i had access to the databases it might be possible to get an accurate total.
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i make stuff...
I certainly didn't accept the challenge to a pissing contest. I really wanted to calculate and reflect on how much this game means to me in hours.
114 undeleted character over level 10
36 Fifties
12812 hours of play time
My fastest to 50 is a Dark/dark controller in 65 hours. I don't AE farm.
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HelinCarnate:OMG it is so terrible. I have the option to take 3 more powers but no additional slots. Boo F'ing hoo.
That's the number of hours I put into the game since I started playing shortly after it went live. I lost the will to play since the news of the shutdown, seeing as it all seems pointless to make any progress now. But I decided I should chronicle all of my characters so I went in and got images, level, bios, hours played and other info. I figured I would share some of it as my way of saying goodbye.
Number of undeleted characters: 56
Number on Liberty: 36
AT Breakdown: 3 spiders, 3 blasters, 7 brutes, 2 controllers, 8 corruptors, 7 defenders, 2 dominators, 7 masterminds, 1 kheldian, 9 scrappers, 4 stalkers, 3 tankers
Recurring powersets: 7 claws, 4 dark melee, 3 dark miasma, 5 radiation emission, 5 regeneration
Total time played: 10,029.77 hours
Total levels gained: 1640
Number of 50s: 17
Favorite Character: Cross Dresser (50) Spine/Dark Armor Scrapper. 3526 hours. 1378 badges.
Looking back it was a hell of a waste of time, but I certainly enjoyed it. Feel free to post some of your own stats if you'd like.
Liberty
My 50s:
Hero: Armor Assassin (scrapper), Cross Dresser (scrapper), Surly Seaman (blaster), Defensive End (Tank), Rad Rhino (Cont)
Villain: Beast Infection (Corr), Sweet Zombie Jesus (MM), Milk Weasel (Stalker), Orgullo (MM), Agent Eris (Crab)