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How many of you go to bed at night thinking about either your single player game or a game on PBW?

Do you strategize in your sleep? Spend the day at work thinking up new tactics and such?

How many of you enjoy roll playing your PBW empires?

I have gone to bed thinking about both my single player and multiplayer games. It sometimes helps me to sleep thinking of what I will do next. When I was working I would sometimes use my spare time and think of ship names and such but that was so very long ago.

I do enjoy thinking about the game from time to time. I feel that SEIV has some of the best Fan Fiction on the web and hope that someday someone will take notice of those great stories and give SEIV some notibility.

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It's funny, but a few weeks ago I was trying to sleep and thinking of a game when I suddenly realised that I had forgotten to give certain orders in the game. So, of course, I jumped out of bed at 2 o'clock in the morning raced down to my computer and redid my turn with the new orders.

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Pretty much every morning when I'm getting into the shower I think about what's going to happen in the Remorhaz universe. Now if I could just take the time to write it down...

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I think about it about every night. It is more I must STOP thinking about it to go to sleep, not put myself to sleep with it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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I do spend some of the 'lie still waiting for sleep' time pondering PbW games, but only if I'm in one that's far enough along to be... comlicated? There's a better word...

Since it's been a while since I was in a PbW game that deep, I might think more about the next bit of technobabble I'm going to write for the Play by Committee game. (use spectator | spectator to log in)

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Yeah, I know that feeling. A great many of my spare moments are taken up by se4 strategising. Or thinking up new stuff for O&C.

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I think about my games a lot when I'm lying down and resting. Sometimes it's enough to make me get up and play more, if I've been napping during the day. By the time I go to bed, I've usually had enough SEIV for the day.

I particularly enjoy roleplaying my races. It makes PBW more fun, especially when I'm losing (i.e. most of the time).

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Some nights I lay awake thinking about new ship designs. Also some of my best ideas for Invasion! Have come to me in dreams or groggy hallucinations. Role-playing my PBW empires... since the only PBW games I am in are Adamant games and I have only been playing those for a few months I have not had much of a chance to role-play except during my negotiations with Fyron about our demilitarized zone and I found that quite enjoyable. For my Invasion! PBW game which I encourage everyone to join I hope to do allot more role-playing.

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The whole reason I play SEIV is to role play in my single player games. I try to imagine what its like to "be there" and come up with little mini-dramas in my head to explain why something happened.

Like the time I had an enemy fleet closing in on an undefended wormhole, and there was a small fleet of mine in need of repair on the wrong side and I barely had enough time to close the wormhole. I imagined the commander of the wormhole closer contacting the head of the fleet:
"We have some bad news. I have orders to close this wormhole NOW".
"We just need 2 more weeks to make it though! My men, OUR men have been sacrificing their lives on the front lines! Dont cut us off now!"
"Im sorry, I have my orders... May the gods have mercy on your souls."
"Same to you, you'll need it more than we will".

Or when I send a colony ship to find out if there are mines somewhere, whoops, miscommunication http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Or the time I had a race with a huge enemy fleet that was closing in on the homeworld of an ally. They had ravaged their system and my fleet showed up just in time.

Or recently, after having read "Enders Game" I imagine.... well, I wont give away the plot.....

As far as thinking about the game, sheesh, I can't stop.... I write down what I did right or wrong at the end of each game and plot out strategy during the day.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">You really should continue your story. By far it has been one of the most enjoyable reads thus far. I am serious about this, you have talent.

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I suffer from "just one more turn syndrome." If I just build that ship or research that tech I will quit. One night I was playing and everything was right with my race. I was ready to go to bed. I played 'just one more turn' and a warp point opens up and out comes a fleet of 40 CueCappa ship in a sector I'm developing. Now how am I supposed to go to sleep?

I think what Iron Giant said is correct. It's the feeling of being immersed in a game and that your decisions do affect millions of people. I one time killed off all of the enemies population on a planet and took a step back and said,"Wow, I killed millions of lives." That's not right. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif
I try to add more way to feel more immeresed in the star trek mods so I will add sounds, music, etc.

I lately haven't been playing SEIV Gold because I been focusing on modding the game. Because I work long hours, I usually try to think of new ways to mod or add something to a mod when I'm traveling between work sites. When I get home, I'll write all of the notes down and then have to wait until the weekend to test them out. I could test my ideas during the weekdays but the wife gets upset sometimes when I spend too much time with the "other woman in my life" which she calls the computer.

[ March 18, 2004, 19:12: Message edited by: hicksz ]

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When I began playing PBW, it was just wargames. But now, I won't play a game that isn't RPG. What really sours things though (and it's only happened once, thankfully) is when I'm playing an RPG and my enemy is not. Kind of unexpected when a Peaceful Scientist race attacks for no reason other than a miltary weakness was found.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">There-in lies the challenge to your imagination:

Perhaps they are having political problems at home, maybe a facist group is taking over their government, maybe they're secretly being assimilated by another unknown race. Perhaps it was a misunderstanding. Maybe their conflicting orders when out, your planet was attacked and the current administration has 2 choices: admit the war was a mistake or continue it to the end to prove it wasn't.

Hmmm that Last one has potential...

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Im thinking of games in general quite often, weither it be when going to sleep, when being on the toilett or when i need a break from work. Most times about games i recently played, and games you can actually think about (RPG, RTS and stuff)

I either think about the game in general, about tactics and gameplay, and sometimes im even thinking RPG-ish, like how it would be if and so on. I like it ^^

[ March 18, 2004, 21:09: Message edited by: Ragnarok-X ]

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Well, I usually don't go to sleep thinking of the game that much. By the time I quit my session, I'm so tired the only thing I'm thinking of is laying down and to go sleep. There maybe the occassional session, while I'm waiting to go to sleep, that I'll think about. But it's usually during the day that I try to think up my strategies or research projects of the particular mod I'm playing at the time. But no matter what I come up with, my plans usually go by the wayside as soon as the enemy does something. What's that old saying about war? All plans go awry once you meet the enemy. Usually in my case, since I try to build up technology before I face the enemy, I have to build ships and weapons when the enemy inevitably shows up, especially where I'm not expecting them.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">You really should continue your story. By far it has been one of the most enjoyable reads thus far. I am serious about this, you have talent. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Wow, thanks Atrocities! I really do intend to continue, but your words are terribly kind.

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After reading all this, I feel very relieved.
All those time I was thinking that there was something wrong with me, and that I had to go to an psychiatrist.

BUT NO, there are other people imaginative about their role's and empires, the whole day long.

YES YES I'm cured http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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I think this is pretty much the same phenomenon as when you're working on an important paper, or anything else where you've spent a lot of time and effort on trying to solve a problem. Several times I have gone to bed thinking about a problem only to wake up with an answer.

It also reminds me of certain repetitive jobs that I've had. It sometimes seemed that I never left work because I would end up dreaming about the job at night. One summer many years ago I had a summer job folding and packing swimming pool covers... talk about some restless nights.

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i think about strategy sure--but sometimes i think of something awesome--then want to turn the comp on and fix it right away--lol--i usually just write a quick note.

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"How many of you go to bed at night thinking about either your single player game or a game on PBW?"

I've done that a few times but most of the time I fall asleep thinking of programming Languages. Particularly PHP and MySQL. I have a few projects in each of those I'm working on so I break down what I am trying to accomplish and then write out the code mentally and how it can be completed. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

But in the past I have thought much about my PBW games and so forth.

"How many of you enjoy roll playing your PBW empires?"

I used to not like it, but I'm getting into it now and it makes the game much more enjoyable.

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i just think about whatever at night. i don't really think about seiv outside of the game. and i get weird dreams. took a nap today and i was a ninja, there where interdimensional portals underneath stairs which lead to interdimensional basements. all in all, it was pretty consistant and not as weird as some weird ones i have had.

[ March 19, 2004, 03:53: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

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The things I think about most as I go to bed.
#1. girls
#2. work
#3. SE4
#4. Another game other than SE4
#5. Things I did that day
#6. Anything I'm worried about.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well I have to agree with you Kamog on your number one. Girls always come first in my mind!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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I must admit, that at my age, women are lst, problem is I seem to always do better in my dreams or thinking, oh well, the answer is yes I do go to bed at times thinking of the game, strategies etc... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif also at other times when I'm supposed to be paying attention to other things

just some ideas mac

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Anybody that does not enjoy role playing in their PBW games should be sacked. Then bitten by a moose. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif j/k

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Talking of weird dreams a month or so ago I hung this gag gift I got (a certain similarly named monster toy) over my bed. For the next week I was having very weird dreams every night. I started thinking the toy was like a dreamcatcher only the reverse in that it attracted weird dreams.

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it's possible that it was stimulating your subconsious.

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If it was stimulating my subconcious than, according to the dreams I had, I am more messed up then I thought.

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Some things just don't have a good feel to them.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif I wouldn't wish that on anyone! Well.....to be honest there are a few people... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well said, well said. Role Playing your Empire has an addictive quality to it that is hard to beat.