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theyorkshergob might be wondering if her silence today is due to hangover or similar from her birthday yesterday. You might suspect she's recovering. Well, she is, sort of.She's sat on the sofa. Playing Speed Racer on the Wii. She's been there pretty much non-stop except for food breaks. Since 4pm today. 91/2hrs and counting.
It's a fun game, with lots of little tricks to learn. But she's way way past the "I want to be able to teach
shrublette how to play this" stage.Doesn't bother me of course, I've been distracted for more than a few hours by Oolite since I started playing it in November. But I don't recall an 8 hour straight game. Meh, I've turned the TV volume down and crawled into bed, I have books to read and candles to read them by--if she doesn't come upstairs until the morning that's her call.
Visitors tomorrow,
innerbrat and ms_ntropy are braving the Megabus from The Smoke. So she'll teach them how to play it tomorrow evening I've no doubt.
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It's fun, and very reminiscent of when I was ten (when the game first came out).
When I recently was looking for something in my old desk at my parents' house, I found a folder with many pages with handwritten tables of Elite trade prices, sorted by galaxy. I came to home computers rather late and played it on the Amiga '86/7ish. Elite certainly ate a lot of my time then but not as much as X-COM: Terror from the Deep in '95, when I was a useless unemployed graduate and played this at least 12 hours a day (when I wasn't sleeping, eating or watching rented VHS tapes).
Then fly in, at about half speed, and line up. Going too slow makes it harder.
Or do what they suggest in the forums and open your safe game in the text editor and switch it to TRUE under docking computer.
I didn't do that with my first one, but did with my second as quite frankly I can dock, but it's boring.
Essential purchase=witchdrive fuel injectors.
If your PC is up to it, get the 'realistic shipyards' add on as well—mine isn't, SB's is, hence I had a restart.
I think I'm going to do that. I remember being really annoyed when you're attacked on your way in and they shoot off your docking computer and you had to buy a new one. Fighting for your life and cargo is one thing, crashing while docking after you escaped is just plain annoying and frustrating.
Cheers for the tips!
Not even with a Civ game?
The only real question was whether he got out of bed early enough in the day to put nine hours in before retiring for the night...
That said, I've easily gone 12+ hours straight on Diablo 2 and Guild Wars. Unhealthy that :-)
As I said to Mark, Civ games don't count. Although I probably did.
Besides, I'd normally save regularly and take breaks to do stuff.
He's working tomorrow but I'm around during the daytime then too. I lost my phone so you'll have to e-mail me or brave the landline to get in touch, unfortunately.