How many hours do you play SH3?

[downunder]

I was sitting here thinking how popular SH3 is and started wondering how many hours people play SH3 a week. I guess im about 10 to 15 hours a week. How many hours do you play????

Cheers

Downunder

[GoDeep]

I was sitting here thinking how popular SH3 is and started wondering how many hours people play SH3 a week. I guess im about 10 to 15 hours a week. How many hours do you play????

Since installing GWX 2.1? Not enough! :rock:

Seriously though, I am about the same as you, 10 - 15 hours per week...whenever the wife lets me :hmm:

[Frank0001]

I spend 10-15 hours a week loading! :up:

[GoldenRivet]

too damned many thats for sure.

I have been removed from my work schedule (with pay) this entire month so another person could get some training. :rock:

so needless to say i have been spending quite a bit of time with SH3. its a sickness :nope:

[GoDeep]

I have been removed from my work schedule (with pay) this entire month so another person could get some training. :rock:


Do they need any more staff where you work? IT people? :hmm:

[GoldenRivet]

Regional Airline Pilots... at the moment we are in bad need. depedning on what oil does that could all change.

Major airlines on the other hand are pretty stagnant.

every month i fly with a differnet captain, sometimes the captain just happens to be a "check airman".

when a new airline pilot is hired and completes a few months of training at headquarters in the simulators and training aircraft he has to go out on real trips with passengers on board for X amount of hours riding with a check airman. when he gets those hours he is signed off and goes to work like the rest of us.

the company can kick me out of my seat to let one of these new guys fly with my captain if he is a check airman.

by the contract they can re-assign me, but whatever trip they reassign me to has to pretty much match my original schedule in number of hours on duty.

if they cant find a trip to give me, they have to release me to the house... with pay.

this is the fourth week in a row this has happened to me, and last year i managed to get nearly 4 full months off because of it.

:rock::rock::rock:

[GoDeep]

this is the fourth week in a row this has happened to me, and last year i managed to get nearly 4 full months off because of it.

:rock::rock::rock:

That much free time to play SHIII (enters dreaming mode...) :cool:

Sounds like a good deal, if you can get it. Think they'll accept someone who has only flown prop-driven fighters? (read: IL-2) :sunny:

[GoldenRivet]

man... i hate to admit it but they will take guys right now who barely meet minimum flight experience for commercial pilots license! :nope:

when i first went to the airlines you had to have like 1500 hours of flight time and about 500 hours in multi engine aircraft.

I taught flying lessons for 4 1/2 years to get to that point.

so yes... IL2 pretty much qualifies you at this point. :rotfl:

[GoDeep]

man... i hate to admit it but they will take guys right now who barely meet minimum flight experience for commercial pilots license! :nope:

when i first went to the airlines you had to have like 1500 hours of flight time and about 500 hours in multi engine aircraft.

I taught flying lessons for 4 1/2 years to get to that point.

so yes... IL2 pretty much qualifies you at this point. :rotfl:

Which airline was that again? :rotfl:
Not Bernard-Air, right? :roll:

[GoldenRivet]

they are all bernard air these days :nope:

[Sailor Steve]

How times change. When my dad first went to work for United, in 1952, he had a pilot's license. That's it. He had gotten that because he and one of his brothers wanted to start a trucking company from Dallas to Mexico City, and they wanted to fly down there to meet the trucks

My dad said his brother was the better natural pilot, but never got his license because he was afraid to go up solo. Their plans didn't pan out, and my dad was left with the license and nothing else. Then my grandmother showed him an ad in a Dallas newspaper which basically said "If you can fly and can make your way to Denver we'll give you all the tests and pay your way home." My dad did that, and they hired him. After training his first gig was flying DC-3s from Los Angeles to San Francisco, with several stops in between.

[GoldenRivet]

"If you can fly and can make your way to Denver we'll give you all the tests and pay your way home."

not to steer this poor thread in the wrong direction.

but on a regional level its quickly coming to that point.

The time off affords me the ability to persue hobbies.

SH3 is just oen of the things i have spent a lot of time with the past few weeks, also i have organized a crawfish boil which i will be hosting in a couple of days, and i'll be attending an air show this weekend. lots of fun, but it seems no matter what im doing i feel the need to take my sub out in the atlantic and face the challenges out there

[GoDeep]

they are all bernard air these days :nope:

:o

[cancels coming holiday trip to Sicily]

You're scaring me, GoldenRivet... I know that nowadays, quality and customer service isn't what it used to be...but piloting skills are pretty much essential if you're going to pilot something, I thought. :nope:

But maybe I'm old-fashioned. Let's end this line of talk. It's not exactly on topic, anyway... :)

[predavolk]

Maybe 2-4; including load times, 3-5. Enough for a patrol every couple of weeks or so. Man, 10-15 hours a week must be pretty sweet! Too much real life for me to do that! :down:

[GoldenRivet]

they are all bernard air these days :nope:
:o

[cancels coming holiday trip to Sicily]

You're scaring me, GoldenRivet... I know that nowadays, quality and customer service isn't what it used to be...but piloting skills are pretty much essential if you're going to pilot something, I thought. :nope:

But maybe I'm old-fashioned. Let's end this line of talk. It's not exactly on topic, anyway... :)
hahaha dont worry :up: there are plenty of professional, experienced guys out there yet

i thought about doing a 1x patrol, but i fear it will be to dull

[Sailor Steve]

Oh, and I completely forgot the topic.:rotfl:

I haven't played SH3 for real in more than two years. I've been back in my own place with my own computer for four months, but I spend all my time either testing or doing research. I load it up and look at it a lot, though.

[Laufen zum Ziel]

I am retired and my mate still works so I play GWX about 3-4 hours a day. I also research the web and the forum for stuff that may be of interest to the forum. If I find something of interest I add it to my below site. This usually takes 3-4 hours per day to maintain.

I really need to get a new life. At this point the forum and GWX is all I do....


http://silent-hunter-addict.com

[999-Jay-999]

When you have a passion, enjoy it...

I would like to pump into this game far more hours than I have to spare... Its a cracking SIM and one that EATS time....

Any amount isnt enough !

:smug:

[Herr Trigger]

How many hours do you play????

In my opinion not enough, my wife on the other hand is expressing her point of view quite vocally just recently!
I get in from work at 5pm, look through the forum for about an hour, load up SH3 and I'm on that until 8:15pm weekdays.
Weekends, well, Saturday (daytime) i'm trawling for Mods and stuff, Saturday night I'll start it up at about midnight and run it solid for 5 hours, then another 4 hours on Sunday afternoon. So it's getting on for 20 hrs at the moment.
I know soon I'm going to get faced with an ultimatum, it's either me or that sub!

Well that sub does look kinda sexy!

Herr Trigger.

[bigboywooly]

:rotfl:

Up till recently not spent any time playing
Upwards 25\30 per week testing and modding though
I have the problem the other way Herr Trigger
The wife has got so used to me being up here out the way for the last couple of years modding now that GWX for SH3 is finished she is worrying I shall spend more time with her

:rotfl:

No chance of that as long as she is watching Emmerdale\Eastenders etc etc

[ozzysoldier]

+/- 10 a week

[Jimbuna]

:rotfl:

Up till recently not spent any time playing
Upwards 25\30 per week testing and modding though
I have the problem the other way Herr Trigger
The wife has got so used to me being up here out the way for the last couple of years modding now that GWX for SH3 is finished she is worrying I shall spend more time with her

:rotfl:

No chance of that as long as she is watching Emmerdale\Eastenders etc etc

I'm getting a sense of deja vu here http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1817/thinkbigsw1yo4.gif

I've spent more time communicating with you fine fellows in recent times than I have the wife and kids http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/wacko.gif

[Herr Trigger]

Originally posted by Jimbuna:

I've spent more time communicating with you fine fellows in recent times than I have the wife and kids

LOL, know what you mean!

Herr Trigger.

[STEED]

I have no life.........:nope:

Who cares when your sinking Battleships in GWX2.1 :D

The working week must be cut to a couple of hours a day to make more room for hunting in the high seas I say. :lol:

[downunder]

Well im glad we all have the same problem, were all addicts! I wonder if theres a rehab for guys like us? Goldenrivet, i was an aircraftspray painter and i could scare the hell out of you guys if i told you what we found over the years when we where pulling them apart. I used to scare the hell out of the owners after we put them back together, i used to show them the bucket of the old bolts and screws and say " gee it went back together really well, and look we have all these bits left over" lol

[Hanomag]

15-25 hours a week. :p

Depending on how late I get up in the morning. God I love retirement.

[Sailor Steve]

Been busy researching ship names, testing mods, talking with others about mods, updates and related things.

How many hours a week do I spend with SH3? Oh, maybe twenty.

How many hours a week do I spend looking at it? Maybe five

How many hours a week do I spend playing it? None.

[Jimbuna]

I've promised myself that next month I'm going to devote a couple of hours per night to playing (took the untimely death of an ex RN friend to pass away suddenly last week to bring me to this conclusion) :nope:

RIP Billy GEE

ex PO Sonar Oberon class then HMS Euralyus

[Red Heat]

Not the time really want avaiable to play, but at the moment i spend about two - four hours by day playing sh3 gwx 2.0 only in the weekends can spend more time playing... :|\\

[downunder]

Condolences jimbuna, it often take the loss of someone we know to see what we have been missing.

[nikimcbee]

Maybe 6 hours SH3

I can spend several days playing cossacks 2:up:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

about 8 hours a day i think :hmm:
actualy it varry's from 2 to 8 hours... to much ? naaaah :p

[Murr44]

To Jimbuna: my sympathies for your loss.:)

Since I got GWX I've been playing far too much; 2-3 hours per evening as there is very little that's worthwhile on tv anymore. I live in a not-so-nice neighbourhood so going out for a walk in the evening can lead to trouble. I'm not married & I live alone so there's no one around to bitch at me to get off the damn computer.:up: The trouble is that I've developed a "crick" in my neck. I think that I'm going to have to ease up & play for 30 mins to an hour (at least until my neck gets better then I'll be right back at it again:D ).

[Redbear]

Maybe 4 - 8 hours on a good week. Most on the weekends, sometimes an evening or two, depending on the real life schedule.

[Brag]

Regional Airline Pilots... at the moment we are in bad need. depedning on what oil does that could all change.

Major airlines on the other hand are pretty stagnant.

every month i fly with a differnet captain, sometimes the captain just happens to be a "check airman".

when a new airline pilot is hired and completes a few months of training at headquarters in the simulators and training aircraft he has to go out on real trips with passengers on board for X amount of hours riding with a check airman. when he gets those hours he is signed off and goes to work like the rest of us.

the company can kick me out of my seat to let one of these new guys fly with my captain if he is a check airman.

by the contract they can re-assign me, but whatever trip they reassign me to has to pretty much match my original schedule in number of hours on duty.

if they cant find a trip to give me, they have to release me to the house... with pay.

this is the fourth week in a row this has happened to me, and last year i managed to get nearly 4 full months off because of it.

:rock::rock::rock:

Rivet, your job is almost as good as when I flew the Pacific on DC-7Cs. 8 days on (56 flying hours) and at least 10 days off. It was a sunny racket

[papa_smurf]

6-7 hrs a week if im lucky.