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On a week when you DO play Dwarf Fortress, how many hours do you spend on average?

2 hours or less
- 17 (24.3%)
2-4 hours
- 6 (8.6%)
4-8 hours
- 15 (21.4%)
8-16 hours
- 15 (21.4%)
16-32 hours
- 11 (15.7%)
32-64 hours
- 4 (5.7%)
I can honestly say that I spend more than 64 hours a week playing DF on a regular basis
- 2 (2.9%)

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Sowelu

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How many hours a week do you spend playing DF?
« on: August 26, 2010, 07:03:33 pm »

Man.  I wish I had the time to do all the cool stuff people do.  But just how much time DO people spend doing that cool stuff?

I guess that time playing DF is a little open to interpretation, because if you're running it in the background while watching movies, is that actually the same as playing it?...  I say that yes, it is, IF you are paying attention, ready to pause or take control when you need to.  Alt-tabbing away counts as playing, but leaving the keyboard for extended periods does not.

And remember, this is "average time spent during a 7-day period where DF play occurs".  If you only play one week a month, count that week, don't average it out across the non-DF voids of the rest of the month.
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Re: How many hours a week do you spend playing DF?
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2010, 07:37:48 pm »

I've more or less got it running in the background when I'm on my computer, which combined with work usually means around six to eight hours per day.  That means I probably play DF a good 30 hours per week...it's a lifesaver when things get slow around here.
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Re: How many hours a week do you spend playing DF?
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2010, 08:33:07 pm »

Less than 2 hours, probably only just more than one. The days of sinking several days a week into DF are over, for now, mostly because I simply don't understand a lot of the new stuff and I've never really tried to learn it.
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Re: How many hours a week do you spend playing DF?
« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2010, 12:18:17 am »

I play 2-4 hours a day for about a week, and then I get sick of Dwarf Fortress for another three weeks. Though I must admit I am in the middle of Dwarf Fortress modding addiction.
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Re: How many hours a week do you spend playing DF?
« Reply #4 on: August 27, 2010, 12:40:47 am »

4 or 5 for me.
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Re: How many hours a week do you spend playing DF?
« Reply #5 on: August 27, 2010, 01:30:17 am »

I play in spurts. When I'm frustrated or annoyed I kinda stop for a while.

I embarked on this pitiful island to get away from the goblins, and it turns out there's no way to get steel (no flux) or, apparently, bronze (no tin).
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Re: How many hours a week do you spend playing DF?
« Reply #6 on: August 27, 2010, 01:52:01 am »

Less than 2 hours, and I've been too busy to play DF.

Also I'm waiting for the new Adventurer stuff to come in.
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Re: How many hours a week do you spend playing DF?
« Reply #7 on: August 27, 2010, 01:59:56 am »

Once upon a time I'd fall in at around 50-70 hours. But I haven't really played in a few months, and it was a few more months before that.

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Re: How many hours a week do you spend playing DF?
« Reply #8 on: August 27, 2010, 03:37:20 am »

Not enough.

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Re: How many hours a week do you spend playing DF?
« Reply #9 on: August 27, 2010, 06:29:57 am »

I kinda got bored of dwarf fortress so now i only play for about 30 minutes then do something else.
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Re: How many hours a week do you spend playing DF?
« Reply #10 on: August 27, 2010, 07:36:58 am »

I need a job that lets me play df.
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Re: How many hours a week do you spend playing DF?
« Reply #11 on: August 27, 2010, 08:15:54 am »

About 4/5 hours on weekends, maybe an hour or so during the week since I have labours enabled.
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Re: How many hours a week do you spend playing DF?
« Reply #12 on: August 27, 2010, 08:17:00 am »

About 4/5 hours on weekends, maybe an hour or so during the week since I have labours enabled.

Heh.
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Re: How many hours a week do you spend playing DF?
« Reply #13 on: August 27, 2010, 09:23:58 am »

When I get up, I turn DF on. When I go to bed, I turn DF off.

'nuff said.
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Re: How many hours a week do you spend playing DF?
« Reply #14 on: August 27, 2010, 09:39:48 am »

When I get up, I turn DF on. When I go to bed, I turn DF off.

'nuff said.

If you're a student that's about 20 hours a week.
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