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Tuoba Hturt Eht

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2005

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Deimos Tel Arin [CCTV]

W/

31 Jul 2006 at 23:47 - 1

Note to Admin:
Thanks, Inde, for keeping the peace in here. Much appreciated.

Note to the rest of the Riverside Inn community:
Thanks to all who replied and wrote aout themselves, this original post was writen and posted in a hurry, so not much detail was put in.

Seeing that many of you all wrote a bit more about yourselves I decided to chip in a bit of myself as well.

Cheers.

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The Original Post which started this thread:
I wish to find out how many Guild Wars players out there who browses and replies to topics in Riverside Inn are pretty much like me:
- employed full time
- loves to play Guild Wars

But have less time to spend on Guild Wars during weekdays, only more time to spend on Guild Wars during weekends.

If possible, state a bit more information about yourself?
Let me start:

Age: 25
Country: Malaysia
Time Zone: GMT +8:00
Employed: Yes
Standard Working Hours: 8:30am ~ 5:30pm
Standard Working Days: Monday ~ Friday
Occupation: Quantity Surveyor - Project Assistant

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Additional Stats about myself and Guild Wars related:

Gender: Male
Married: No. Not Yet
Have Children: No. Not yet
Region: America
PvP: Yes. (Random Arenas, Team Arenas, Alliance Battles)
PvE: Yes. (Quests, Missions, Normal Farming, Farming Canthan Bosses for Greens)
Been Playing Guild Wars Since: May 2005
Been Employed and Working Since: July 2006

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Additional Stats about myself and not quite Guild Wars related:
Pets: x4 Dogs (2 10+ y/o, 2 2+ y/o)

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Additional Info about myself:
I started playing Guild Wars back in may 2005, when Guild Wars was released not too long ago.
Back then I was still studying, not employed, had more time to spend on Guild Wars now.

Now, I am employed and has been working for a month now.
Even though the "Standard Working Hours" is stated as 8:30am ~ 5:30pm daily from Monday to Friday, that rarely happens.
Almost everyday I am required to work overtime if I am to finish the assigned task on time.

So it is actually more like 8:30am ~ 7:00am daily from Monday to Friday, and sometimes even on Saturday. Plus my girl friend of almost 3 years is living together with me now, to sum it up, that leaves me with about 30 minutes to an hour per day during weekdays Monday till Friday.

As for weekends, I wake up early, so I get to play together with the guildies who lives in America.

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Appreciation Message:
Thanks to everyone replied.

Thanks for all the feedback that everyone provided.
Much appreciated.
Thank you.

My "To do List" for this thread:
Make a poll to sort out various things such as
- gender
- country
- age group
- occupation group
- etc

lg5000

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2005

Australia

01 Aug 2006 at 00:13 - 2

Yeah, also employed full time, but I'm a mother of 2 (the older plays gw) and my partner also plays.

I play after hours (9pm onwards) and on the weekends whenever I win the argument over who gets the comp, me or my son, after all, he's gotta play sometime

or the kids are with their grandparents.. which results in marathon-style playing with food and sleep being forgotten about. I'm sure that's not healthy

silyrinth

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2006

Chocobos and Moogles [Kupo]

Mo/Rt

01 Aug 2006 at 00:20 - 3

Yeah, same here. I can only really play a lot on weekends. If I play more than an hour weeknights my newly developed Adult Inner Timepiece tells me I could be doing something more productive.

Age: 24
Country: USA
Employed: Yes
Standard Working Hours: 9:30am ~ 5:30pm
Standard Working Days: Monday ~ Friday
Occupation: Craftwho- ...coordinator for a craft store.

If I'm not planning special festival events, I'm building craft displays for the store.

kvndoom

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2005

Communistwealth of Virginia

Uninstalled

W/Mo

01 Aug 2006 at 00:24 - 4

I work 60 hours a week, minimum, and still play GW at least 4 or 5 hours every day...

Sleep? What the hell is sleep?

Denny Pace

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2005

Good Eye Sniper [GeS]

01 Aug 2006 at 00:38 - 5

Age: 45
Country: US
Time Zone: GMT -4:00
Employed: Yes
Standard Working Hours: 8:00am ~ 5:00pm
Standard Working Days: Monday ~ Friday
Occupation: Director of Quality and Information Technology

I also happen to play this game a lot with my sons. The biggest problem comes when the GvGs roll into the 1-2 AM time frame, effectively wiping me out the next day. Oh, and my wife REALLY loves when I'm online for 5 hours....

Thank god for caffeine and jewelery....

Midnight08

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2006

Cantha. DE

Xen of Onslaught (Alliance of Xen-AX)

A/

01 Aug 2006 at 00:41 - 6

Work 2 jobs 1 ful 1 part time,(about 55 hrs / week) after work its GW time. i usually get 4-6 hours of sleep a night. i keep 1 day a week to socialize besides time at work.

Age: 28 (next sat)
Country: USA
Time Zone: EST (GMT -5)
Employed: Too Employed lol
Standard Working Hours: 8:00am ~ 5:00pm M-F 630pm-10pm 2 nights/week + 11-7Sun or 2-10Sat
Standard Working Days: heh... 6/7 days a week, M-F + 1 or 2 weekend days
Occupation: Help Desk Analyst, Part time Geek Squad Agent

/sign
Sleep??? Whats Sleep????

ive been getting around 4 hrs of sleep a night since UO, then NWN, then CoH, now GW...

Eugaet

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2005

US

Righteous Apathy [RA]

01 Aug 2006 at 00:42 - 7

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tuoba Hturt Eht

- employed full time
- loves to play Guild Wars
But have less time to spend on Guild Wars during weekdays, only more time to spend on Guild Wars during weekends.

Yep, that's me.

Age: 31
Country: US
Time Zone: GMT -6:00
Employed: Yes
Standard Working Hours: 8:00am ~ 5:00pm (if I'm lucky)
Standard Working Days: Monday ~ Friday (but on-call 24/7)
Occupation: IT - Jack-of-all-Trades

I'm married with children, so sometimes I don't even get the weekends. Not that I'm complaining. I <3 my family.

lyra_song

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Oct 2005

R/Mo

01 Aug 2006 at 00:54 - 8

Age: 24
Country: USA
Time Zone: GMT -5:00
Employed: Yes
Standard Working Hours: 8:30am ~ 5:20pm
Standard Working Days: Monday ~ Friday
Occupation: Clerical + Freelance Graphic Design

i only get to play missions on weekends T_T

arcanemacabre

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Feb 2006

North Kryta Province

Angel Sharks [As]

01 Aug 2006 at 00:54 - 9

Yeah, I got a Full-Time job where I have constant access to the internet. So I get a few hours each night to play, and a few hours at work to surf the forums/whatever else. Gotta love it!

bono

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2005

canada

Mo/N

01 Aug 2006 at 01:19 - 10

Age: 24
Country: Canada
Employed: Fulltime
Standard Working Hours: 08:00 - 20:00 or 20:00 - 08:00 (12-hour shifts)
Standard Working Days: All 7 days
Avg Hours per Week: 37.3hours
Avg Days of work per month: 13 days
Occupation: Boiler Operation (Power Plant)

Working shift work messes up your schedule. I play guild wars around the clock based on my sleeping pattern.

Operations must be at the plant 24 hours a day, every day of the year, including all holidays (christmas, new years, easter, etc).

TalonTheCat

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

USA

Black Cat Guild

Mo/

01 Aug 2006 at 02:34 - 11

Age: 38
Country: US
Time Zone: GMT - 5:00
Employed: Yes
Standard Working Hours: 8:30am ~ 5:30pm
Standard Working Days: Monday ~ Friday (on-call 24/7)
Occupation: IT Manager

Poison Ivy

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

Toronto

Hopping

Mo/A

01 Aug 2006 at 03:10 - 12

Oh god...when I grow up, there's no way I'm gonna be a parent...

Anyways

Age : 14
Country : China (Soon going back to North America/Canada Ontario
Time Zone : Gmt +8:00
Standard studying hours(Mainly subjects regarding business) : 7:00 pm - 12 : 00 pm.
Standard studying days : Every day during summer

Occupation : Pain in the arse (A student teachers can't wait to get rid of due to high IQ)

MFEB9X

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2006

Greek Mafia

N/W

01 Aug 2006 at 03:14 - 13

i lucky don't have to work, but only play guildwars about an hour a day. so i see it about even.

petehero

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jul 2006

W/N

01 Aug 2006 at 03:20 - 14

Im new to guild wars....ish! so ive only really been on last 4 days, luckily my job means i can play alot!

Age: 19
Country: UK
Time Zone: GMT
Employed: Yes
Standard Working Hours:
Standard Working Days:
Occupation: I play guitar/vocals for Not Your Hero (www.myspace.com/notyourhero)

I get to play a bit more at the moment as we had a week off after shooting video to our latest single, so lots of time for GW! Got alot of promoting coming up for the release soon, think i might have withdrawel symptoms

bart

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

01 Aug 2006 at 03:24 - 15

Age: 23
Country: Malaysia
Time Zone: GMT +8:00
Employed: Yes
Standard Working Hours: 8-4.30
Standard Working Days: Monday ~ Friday
Occupation: Sub Editor

This jungle guide spends more time in Azeroth than Cantha these days. Prefers the jungles of Darnassus to the dreary streets of Budevek.

cosyfiep

are we there yet?

Join Date: Dec 2005

in a land far far away

guild? I am supposed to have a guild?

Rt/

01 Aug 2006 at 03:28 - 16

both my husband and I play, unfortuneately I am unemployed (but still looking)

age 40 hubby 38
work, me housewife

(nope), hubby yep
have kids: NEVER!
we are in cdt usa
hubby works IT so hours vary (if the server is down, he maynot even get home)
have no idea what his title is but its a biggie (like manager of security and architecture yadda yadda yadda.......)
Usually he works m-f, but like I stated if something goes wrong, stays at work until its fixed.
pve: yes
pvp: nope---we both suck at it, no reason to hurt us more
hubby got the game when it was released in May '05, I got mine when I returned from teaching in japan in August '05
have both gwp and gwf
pets: no, but lots (thousands) of stuffed toy animal :P

I play a lot during the day and he joins me when he gets home for a few hours and then again as much as we are home/awake for on the weekends and holidays. We play together since its something we can do for pretty cheap and we dont have to leave our house.

Inde

Site Contributor

Join Date: Dec 2004

01 Aug 2006 at 03:48 - 17

Please keep this thread on topic.

KvanCetre

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

The Madison Scouts

E/Mo

01 Aug 2006 at 03:53 - 18

Age: 21
Country: US
Time Zone: CNT
Employed: Yes
Standard Working Hours: 7-5
Standard Working Days: M-Th
Occupation: Working for the school installing computer labs, repairing labs, etc.

Loki Seiguro

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2006

IGN: Scarlet Test Ace

We play Isketch in [HoH]

E/

01 Aug 2006 at 04:15 - 19

eh..you can say im employeed full time...as a student lol

Age:not saying
Country U.S (wish it was japan or euro)
TIME ZONE: um uhh..eastern?
Stardar working hours: 6am - 2pm
working days: mon-fri
occupation: student :P

CyberMesh0

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2005

Charter Vanguard [CV]

N/Me

01 Aug 2006 at 04:25 - 20

Age: 22
Country: US
Time Zone: GMT - 5:00
Employed: Yes
Standard Working Hours: 7:30am ~ 4:00pm
Standard Working Days: Monday ~ Friday
Occupation: Document Imaging Specialist

Caedere

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Aug 2005

Kansas City Hotsteppers [KCHS]

N/Me

01 Aug 2006 at 05:09 - 21

I have time for GW, WoW, AND friends. 4 hours of sleep for the win.

Age: 22
Country: USA
Time Zone: GMT -7:00
Employed: Yes
Standard Working Hours: 8:45am ~ 7:45pm
Standard Working Days: Sunday and Monday, then Wednesday and Thursday.
Occupation: Customer Care Representative

lord_shar

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jul 2005

near SF, CA

01 Aug 2006 at 05:58 - 22

I play mainly GW, UT2004, and occasionally Quake4. Eagerly awaing the new Neverwinter Nights2 game.

Age: 30+

Country: USA
Time Zone: GMT -8
Hours/Week: 40 hrs full time
Occupation: System Analyst + Sys-Admin

Gonzo

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2006

Netherlands

Defenders of the Blackblade [DotB]

W/

01 Aug 2006 at 06:00 - 23

Age: 23
Country: Netherlands
Time Zone: GMT +1:00
Employed: Yes
Standard Working Hours: 8:30am ~ 5:00pm (except for wednesday, which is 8:30am ~ 12.15pm)
Standard Working Days: Monday ~ Friday
Occupation: Graphic designer

Don't play that much, on avarage a hour a day.

glountz

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Nov 2005

W/Mo

01 Aug 2006 at 07:11 - 24

Age: 27 (and married)
Country: France
Time Zone: GMT +2:00
Employed: Yes
Standard Working Hours: 10:00am ~ 8:30pm (but I have no real time schedule - about 50 hours a week, sometimes less, often more)
Standard Working Days: Monday ~ Saturday.
Occupation: PhD.

I play a little the morning (half an hour) and essentially the week-end.

RTSFirebat

The Humanoid Typhoon

Join Date: May 2005

UK

Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

R/

01 Aug 2006 at 07:23 - 25

Age: 23
Country: UK
Time Zone: GMT (doh!)
Employed: Yes
Standard Working Hours: 7:00am ~ 4:00pm
Standard Working Days: Monday ~ Friday
Occupation: IT Related (But cannot give details)

Play about 2 hours a day, 4 hours on weekends.

darrylhaines

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2006

Freedom Of Midnight

E/

01 Aug 2006 at 07:39 - 26

Age: 26
Country: UK
Time Zone: GMT
Employed: Yes
Standard Working Hours: 8:30am ~ 4:30pm
Standard Working Days: Monday ~ Friday
Occupation: Voice Engineer

Ever since getting xbox live for my 360, I am finding it very hard to make time for GW anymore, and the thing is I just bought 4 more char slots so I could have 1 of every char + 2 for testing/pvp lol.

ElinoraNeSangre

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2006

Near Seattle, WA

Talionis De Cineris [EXUR]

N/Me

01 Aug 2006 at 07:40 - 27

Age: 28
Country: USA
Time Zone: GMT -7:00
Employed: Yes
Standard Working Hours: 9am - 6pm
Standard Working Days: Mon - Fri
Occupation: Software Test Engineer

(is it just me, or do a lot of us seem to be in tech?)

CorstedPirate

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2006

Knights of the Void

Mo/

01 Aug 2006 at 07:56 - 28

Age: 27
Country: USA
Time Zone: GMT -8:00 (Pacific Standard Time)
Employed: Yes
Standard Working Hours: 10pm - 6am
Standard Working Days: Sun-Thurs
Occupation: BLEH!

Typically I get to play GW a couple hours a day, sometimes less. I only get 4-6 hours of sleep generally. I am surprised to be the first person to post that works graveyard..

Slainster

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2006

01 Aug 2006 at 08:02 - 29

Age: 31
Country: UK
Time Zone: GMT
Employed: Yes
Standard Working Hours: 8:00am ~ 4:30pm
Standard Working Days: Monday ~ Friday
Occupation: IT Consultant - mainly fixing email problems..

I try play at least an hour each night, on the weekend as much as I can get away with before my wife complains she's feeling like a ghost

However that said, she has started to play now, so I guess\hope its just a matter of time before we are both GW junkies

Cebe

The 5th Celestial Boss

Join Date: Jul 2006

Inverness, Scotland

The Cult of Scaro [WHO]

E/

01 Aug 2006 at 08:14 - 30

Age: 22
Country: Scotland
Time Zone: GMT
Employed: Yes
Standard Working Hours: 8:30am ~ 5:00pm
Standard Working Days: Monday ~ Friday
Occupation: Quantity Surveyor - (OP is a fellow QS - what are the chances!!)

Damn full time job! I try and get in as much Guild Wars play-time as I can, usually 4-5 hours in the evenings, weekends, and maybe 10 mins in the morning, it's just so damn addictive!!

yeah_hi

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2005

UK

01 Aug 2006 at 08:22 - 31

Age: 26
Country: UK
Time Zone: GMT
Employed: Yes
Standard Working Hours: 9am - 5:30pm
Standard Working Days: Monday - Friday
Occupation: Software Analyst

I manage maybe an hour or two 3-4 evenings during the week. If I have no plans at the weekend I can play anything from 4-8 hours

My partner works the same hours as me, and he manages about 2hrs weekday evenings, and as much as I'll let him get away with during the weekend!

echX

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2006

01 Aug 2006 at 08:28 - 32

Age: 28
Country: Sweden
Time Zone: GMT +1:00
Employed: Yes
Standard Working Hours: 8:30am ~ 5:00pm
Standard Working Days: Monday ~ Friday
Occupation: IT-administrator

An MMORPG is quite a time-thief, but luckily I managed to recruite my girlfriend into GW and now we play together 2-3 hours (almost) every weekday and often 5+ hours in the weekends per day, sometimes more

And when my boss isn't around, I am able to GW some at work as well

Skids

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

UK FTW

R/Mo

01 Aug 2006 at 08:33 - 33

Age: 102 Quantaran years (older than most of you - nuff said)
Country: UK
Time Zone: GMT
Employed: Yes
Standard Working Hours: 8.30am - 5:30pm officially but normally 8.00am - 6.00pm or whatever the job needs.
Standard Working Days: Monday - Friday
Occupation: Estimator for a partitioning company

I play from about 7.30pm - 11.30pm during the week and if I can most of the weekend off and on. Obviously I work on a PC all day, and I spend more time lurking in this and other forums than I ought to so my work suffers a bit.

Yakumo

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2005

UK

Hearts Of Fury [HoF]

R/

01 Aug 2006 at 09:33 - 34

Age: 33
Country: UK
Time Zone: GMT
Employed: Yes
Standard Working Hours: 08:45 - 16:45 (rarely happens!)
Standard Working Days: Monday - Friday
Occupation: IT Specialist

Usually try to play 2-3 hours a night during the weekdays, and try to play more over the weekends... There isn't enough hours in the day.

Tachyon

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

Stoke, England

The Godless [GOD]

W/

01 Aug 2006 at 10:45 - 35

Age: 34
Country: England
Time Zone: GMT
Employed: Off work due to disability
Standard Working Hours: 09:00 - 18:00
Standard Working Days: Monday - Friday
Occupation: Aerospace aerodynamicist and flight systems analyst.

Seen as I'm off work due to disability I play Guild Wars at any time of the day or night. Infact it isn't strange for me to still be on at 6am before bed, after playing from early the previous evening. Obviously breaks are involved, I'm not that mad, for food, drinks and calls of nature.

However, when at work I'm not able to harness the massive computer horsepower at my disposal for gaming, that's why I have a decent notebook.

Rancour

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Camp Rancor (Rancour :D)

I'm a free spirit (that's not what the guild is called, I just am)

W/R

01 Aug 2006 at 11:00 - 36

Age: 16
Country: Denmark
Time Zone: GMT -1 (I think)
Employed: Yup
Standard Working Hours: 11:00 a.m - 5:30 p.m {or} 5:30 p.m - 10:30 p.m {or} 11:00 a.m - 10:30 p.m
Standard Working Days: Monday - Sunday (only 4 times a week though)
Occupation: Cinema candy seller

It's not a fancy job, but it's great for a 16 year old; the pay's good and I've got more than enough time to play Guild Wars.

Andy_M

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

Worthing, UK

(Don't fear) The Beaver

01 Aug 2006 at 11:43 - 37

Age: 35
Country: England
GMT
Hours: 9-5 Mon-Fri (lol - I wish !)
Occupation: Travel Insurance Broker.

Caged Fury

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

Hearts Of Fury [HoF]

01 Aug 2006 at 12:00 - 38

Age: 33
Country: UK
Time Zone: GMT
Employed: Yes
Standard Working Hours: 08:30 - 17:00 (longer if I decide to do overtime)
Standard Working Days: Monday - Friday
Occupation: Senior Software Test Analyst

I start playing GW the moment I get home from work and usually get to bed after midnight. On weekends, I play for as long as I can if I don't have any social gathering to attend, and fit in other non-gaming things (laundary, shopping, gardening, blah, blah, blah) in between.

Draxx

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2006

England Baby!

01 Aug 2006 at 12:14 - 39

Age: 20
Country: England Baby!
Time Zone: GMT
Employed: Yup
Working Days: Monday to Friday
Working Time: 9.00 - 5.30
Occupation: Software Analyst/Engineer.

Ive been playing since i worked in a non full time roll, and miss that!

lol

I play now as soon as i get hom until around 2 or 3 in the morning, every now and then i venture into the real world, but i cant walk around with my razorstone there so its just NOT as fun! xD

xx

terranova

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Feb 2006

Newfoundland/Ottawa

Prestigious Canadians

Mo/Me

01 Aug 2006 at 13:18 - 40

Age: 42
Country: Canada
Time Zone: GMT + 4
Employed: Yes
Working Days: Monday to Friday and some weekends
Working Time: 7.00 - 5.00
Occupation: Shower Ring Curtain Salesman on Commission
(Really Structural Eng - Oil and Gas)

I play every evening usually late at night, for 1-2 hour and 3-4 on weekends if not busy and if the wife and kids will let me.