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Okay, let's start confessing ;)- what is the longest duration for which you have been logged on in Nanny?  

Of course, there are people who switch chars a million times and are really playing for hours and hours even if any one char is logged on for a short amount of time.  And then there are clients.... (gasp!)

So let's make this precise - what is the longest duration you have been logged on with one char without quitting without having a client keep you logged in?

If I remember right, my longest was 20 hours when  Aeneas was a young knight. I suppose I wasn't really constantly running around. I didn't really realize I had been logged on that long until Fortune logged on and sent me a tell saying "20 hours!". For a few minutes I had no idea what he was talking about. When I realized, I asked myself what I was doing...and quit ;)

Aeneas

Alright, I'll play too!

My longest would have to be right around 20 hours as well.  Even though I had gotten to that mark a few times I never seemed to be able to break the 24 hour barrier (I know some who have).
The episodes that stand out most in my mind were quite a few years ago when I was off school for a couple of months (not long enough to get a job) and had enough money put away to cover costs.  I remember playing for "too much" time most days and a few times playing through the night with the only cue to stop being the morning sun streaming through my windows.  In my case it was Phade who sent me the tell of "20 hours!?"

Heh, good question...

I think I've never played really much in one go... Possibly in my final year at university, some 12 years ago, I did some night play, taking my bicycle to school in the evening (8 PM?) and going back home around 3-4 AM...

I've also been logged on from work, more or less idle...

So, let's say my 'record' would've been about 8-9 hours, at the most 10 hours, but never active for more than 8 hours...

The 'normal' session would rather have been 2-4 hours, but then pretty consistent throughout the years.

20 hours sounds about right, can't say for sure it's been more so I leave it at that.

I do know Ravagon that crazy old khorne could play for well over a day, I think he played for 36+ hours once or twice if not more. When he died he just rejoined until he got Hellblade fast, then maxed it out and didn't stop playing until he more or less passed out (or died, which ever happend first *grins*).

Hey! This may be what it takes to be a 'great player' :) Smileys aside, I really do admire such stamina... At my night sessions,
in the end as the light came back outside, and the birds started to sing, I
wasn't really fresh in my mind :) Khorne would NOT have been the best
choice of guilds then!

My first ever mud session back in 96 was probably my longest, Dannoc, Sindel and Deathjester got me hooked after a programming assignment in school at around 6pm, when Dannoc got back to school at 11 am the next day, I was still playing ;) I think it became around 18 hours total

Anduril pulled a 36+ hour too when he died a khornes death, played in the same puter room as him occasionally during that time, and the mud-odour defied the air-ventilation I can tell you that much ;)

The worst case of mudding I've heard about is Daddy who, according to himself, stayed awake with coffein pills and played straight monday to friday until he couldn't move his fingers

I remember a few 20+ hour sessions myself. Those were the days ;) :D

i would gladly let my client keep me alive for as long as it takes to break any records  ...  that is, if the admins won't mind

May i ?  :)  May i ?

Client? Tsk ... you have to play khorne for real, non-stop if you want to break any kind of worthwhile record :)

Look above, 36+ hours as a khorne and you can start pounding your chest *grins*.

You people are insane.....too hardcore for me....

I think the longest I have ever went was maybe 5-6 hours with random idlings throughout.  I love the game, but where do you find the time?

But then again, I started Nanny AFTER the golden age...

Well, very few people would have the time except when they are on a holiday (not that this is the best way to spend a holiday). Such long playing sessions usually occur when the addiction is at its peak. But such periods usually last for a short time and do not recur (at least for most people). And of course, it is a good thing that they do not recur. But there is no reason why that should stop us from bragging about our past dementia and perhaps even reminiscing about the "good old days". ;)

Aeneas

I'd estimate about 14 hours for my longest play session.  I, too, started on Nanny just a few years ago, so half the time I hardly know what anyone's talking about.  :wink:

My longest session is quite recent - just under 25 hours.

I'm impressed :) How did you manage to stay focused? And did you reach some 'cool' goal, like hellblade at 2000 kills or something like that???

I went from a fresh char to a rank 19 khorne with enough XP for plevel 2. How did I manage to concentrate? I couldn't. My head was killing me and I went to bed.

I subsequently died with that same char the following day. Man was I pissed off.

Ouch! Bad luck, but somewhat typical...

I really hope I'll be able to play some marathon sessions some day, at this point in life it's quite impossible though. But SOME DAY...

Yeah, and I died the stupidest of ways. My computer CRASHED,  completely, during combat.

Oh man, that sucks.
I'm pretty sure I've pulled a 36+ hour, but not as a khorne.. I had a very bad mudaddiction. I couldnt get enough, and once I remember decided it was time for bed after seeing the sun's morning ritual a couple times in a row... but I alternated between nanny and a place called chaos.... man I think I made 78 levels on chaos that day with one of my chars - for a total of about 110 levels on that game.... that game was almost as addictive as nanny... for it's combat alone

And my most recent khorne (rank 43 and second-longest daemon name) died in PK combat a few weeks ago, 'cause my connection decided to freeze up as soon as the fight started (typed "quit" about 50 times as soon as I noticed the unresponsiveness, but to no avail), then it went completely dead and did not let me back on for 3 minutes.  Until that point, I was batting Incense around like a cat with a mouse.  *sigh*

I had a back-up khorne (rank 16 with bite 3) ready for an event such as this, but have no inclination to rank him up for a while.  Khornes are still fun to PK if you know enough kills, and have the skill to finish them fast.  But too hard to PK if you don't.  I would rather see the guild un-nerfed, so that it is accessable to anybody, not just hard-core players.  Exclusivity is boring when taken too far.

Ouch! Sorry to hear you lost that a high khorne :( I have never died with such a high khorne, but each death with a khorne above a certain rank is terrible... First khorne I created, I managed to get killed at rank 19 (over 11 years ago). That felt just awful, and you get that feeling that 'I'm finished with this crap game'... Well, I got over it :)

I was mentally prepared for such an event.  I knew such a thing would eventually happen, either because of my dodgy connection or because I was PK... in this case both.  I was happy to have an excuse to stop playing and go do something more productive with my time.   :P

there is NOTHING more productive to do with your time than mud

Yes there is.

no there's not  :tongue: I work - but I'd get just as much money from mudding as I do slaving away all day where I am working, therefore mud = win

Being a parasite is not productive.

parasite?!
I'll have you know I'm a computer repairer/builder/tech guy  :tongue:

 My longer playing session, with one char that is is 23h and 40 mins. Damn i wanted to reach the 24h barrier, but I was soooo sleeeepy!
Ah and that was of course with my knight, so I actually sat all that time in front of the computer. There were enough people in the lab to go grab some food for me as well.

 I also spent 36h mudding, but then I switched chars and I also think I made a few small breaks while trying to grab something to eat.

What can I say, being a student rocked !

Thought I'd post this, from end of July 2009 excerpts of a chatlog with Vulcan:

 7:08pm
-=-=-=-=-
Me: Didn't think I still had it in me to pull this shit
Vulcan: Pull what?
Me: Finger recluse
 Recluse the advanced Practiced Hunter (neutral)
 
 He is a puny mortal.
 Recluse is a secondchar.
 He is logged on right now and has been so for 22 hours 51 minutes 15 seconds.
 Recluse has no plan.
Vulcan: Yikes
Me: I know
Me: Not done a session anywhere close to this since 2003.
Me: My record is 25 hours.  May as well try and beat it now.
 7:42pm
-=-=--=-
Vulcan: I conclude you are having fun with the guild
Me: Not bad so far.  I think it's more that I'm hooked.  I've gotten an opportunity to put all my accumulated knowledge to the test.
Me: I think the real fun will start when I get some of the better powers
Me: I've also stayed logged in because [censored] reward on me.
Me: So I'm milking it for all its worth.  Got 99%  against human males.
 8:00pm
-=-=-=-=-
Me: First bonecrush with bare hands :)
Vulcan: cool

 12:21am
-=-=-=-=-
Me: I would have way exceeded today's progress if I'd known about the buying items, or bothered to look at it.  As it is i've almost caught up with the highest player.
Vulcan: yeah
Me: It seems I keep breaking through into these hour-long plateaues of calmness where I don't feel any real tiredness or desire for sleep.  Maybe my body is being forced to tap into resources because of how I'm treating it.

 5:28am
-=-=-=-=-
Vulcan: you're still going?
Me: seems so...
Me: I've got to break down sooner or later
Vulcan: yeah don;'t get yourself sick
Vulcan: My record is 73 hours straight assembly programming on a Commodore Amiga back in 1989
Vulcan: don't plan to repeat it
Me: I guess the lack of sleep showed in the work?
Vulcan: well, it was removal of software protection in games during was called as a copy-party
Me: Normally something comes up to make me stop... don't know if you've ever had that experience when reading a fiction book, you have to "come to a certain place" in order to feel like you can put it down...
Vulcan: yeah, or watching a tv series
Me: Um, not sure that's the same thing...
Vulcan: for me it is
Me: I mean put the book down when you're engrossed in it.
Me: You watch a whole series in 1 sitting?
Vulcan: some TV series suspense just never lets up
Vulcan: try watching a season of 24
Me: ok
Vulcan: you must be the top hunter now
Me: Well one guy is a bit ahead of me grade-wise.
Vulcan: who?
Me: kelefane
Me: Now I just dread to think that this session ends with me dying
Me: I mean my  char, not me from lack of sleep :P
Vulcan: just take a break if you';re concerned
Me: one of the hooks, though not the whole reason, is the [CENSORED] I have, that goes when I quit.
Me: If I "took a break" I' fall asleep and my char would statue off.

 7:00am
-=-=-=-=-
Me: finally I stop.  34 hours in total.

Thats a long session. Don't know if 'congratz' is something we'd say to it ;) Long ago were the days when I could stay up that long.

Marriage has a way of slowing that behavior down ;)

"I now pronounce you MUD and wife."

*wink*