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[rephikul]

How long is your DF playing session?

Do you take breaks while playing? If you do, when do you take breaks and what do you do?

Do you have any discomfort after your regular playing session?

I usually play during the evening for about 2-4 hours. I have seasonal save enabled so I take breaks and perform bodily function or exercise during that time. When I get immigrants I usually pause and walk around the room as I plan on their function as well. My eyes get tired after playing but it's already late at night so playing is probably not the cause. I go to bed after playing anyway.

[Max White]

About fifteen minutes to half an hour, I play it in between having to do work. The ascii is relaxing after having compilers yell at you because of stupid mistakes like forgetting semicolens. Of corse the short play time means a fort goes for weeks, and I got more attached to it.

[thvaz]

At times I played DF for hours. Twelve hours or more, with only small breaks to eat and such.

[Patchy]

Lots of short breaks here. I got to get up and stretch, can't sit for as long as I used too when I was younger. And usually an hour or 2 in the evenings is my main playing time, and its rare I get more than a year in per session.

[MythagoWoods]

Depends, really.  If I'm doing other work or writing I play it for 15-20 minutes.  If I focus solely on Dwarf Fort... I can play for hours on end until I realize I've been watching little drunken Ascii guys running around butchering kittens.

[Buttery_Mess]

I tend to play for hours at a time in silence.

[grueburger]

If i'm obsessing over my current fort i can play for entire days but once i get bored with it it'll be a few weeks before i play again.  It's an all or nothing game for me, but i always return eventually.  This must be the only game i've actually returned to more than once or twice, but i guess the quick dev cycle helps that.

Breaks only occurr when i am literally too uncomfortable to concentrate.  So kinda like 31.01 dwarves who would starve themselves to death trying to mine massive rooms out.

[freeformschooler]

If DF ever gets really popular I hope no one ever sees this thread and realizes what a bunch of hardcore nonstop computer gamers we are.

I'm not. I play for about 15-20 minutes at a time in Adventure mode, sometimes 30 minutes at a time in fort mode. There's always something interesting but that's not enough to keep me playing for hours on end I'm not dorfy enough.

[Helmaroc]

If DF ever gets really popular I hope no one ever sees this thread and realizes what a bunch of hardcore nonstop computer gamers we are.

Nonsense, we are a proud people. And the less hardcore computer gamers will respect us.

Yeah, I'll play for hours on end if I have free time. Also freeformschooler that is the longest avatar (in duration) I have ever seen.

[Mickey Blue]

Like others I'm all over the place, sometimes playing for large amounts of time, sometimes just short bursts and sometimes I just let it run in the background while I do other things and check it (often when a fort is older and there isn't as much micromanagement necessary outside of migrant waves, trading and sieges).

-MB