Stay up late tomorrow (Wednesday) or get up early on Thursday (or both) so that you're tired enough to go to bed right after work. Then you can wake up right at the BWE start time for your particular time zone and go until you hallucinate sometime Saturday morning.
Any of you students out there hardly need to plan a sleep schedule as any self-respecting gamer better have pulled an all-nighter at some point in their academic career. My record is 42 hours of being awake and I suppose I could have made 48 but there just wasn't a point to it.......that and the walls were starting to move.
Plan your sleep schedule
Granamyr
bobert
I have mine planned out already. Wake up a few hours earlier on Thursday Morning, and then go to bed about 4 hours early on Thursday night to wake up a few hours after the beta starts.
FluidFox
73 hours... whooo. I knew it was getting out of hand when I got a phone call and picked up the soda bottle next to the phone and started talking into it. The answering machine had picked up by then, so I thought they could hear me. I didn't catch my mistake until I tried to hang the phone up...
But for this weekend I'll use the standard rotation I have for the last two. Take a 4-6 hour nap Thursday evening until half an hour before the event is set to open.. Then play for the next 18 hours. Take another 4 hour nap... Play for the next 18.... 4... 18...etc. That allows for ~52 hours of game time after you factor in time for eating and some sort of basic hygene.
But for this weekend I'll use the standard rotation I have for the last two. Take a 4-6 hour nap Thursday evening until half an hour before the event is set to open.. Then play for the next 18 hours. Take another 4 hour nap... Play for the next 18.... 4... 18...etc. That allows for ~52 hours of game time after you factor in time for eating and some sort of basic hygene.
Fezz
Already got mine planned out. Doing the same thing I did last month. Goto bed real early Thursday night, wake up in time for the BWE to start(2a.m. here), play till I have to goto class, play between classes. Then I have to take a 4 hour break so I can drive to my parents house. Then play till I can't hold my eyes open. Saturday and Sunday, play from wake to sleep.
And I have been off Caffeine(sp?) for 3 weeks, so just a little should have a nice effect.
And I have been off Caffeine(sp?) for 3 weeks, so just a little should have a nice effect.
FireMarshal
uhuh...
I'll be going working 8 hour days, so yeah, no playtime for me Thursday night, wont get on until Friday night. Yep....I have a life
Draken
Bah why all this planning when you can just take some speed . I will admit to staying up till i can't keep my eyes open but planning your weekend out... is their an AA for gamers?
BTW I don’t condone the use of drugs or alcohol... well maybe just drugs.
. I will admit to staying up till i can't keep my eyes open but planning your weekend out... is their an AA for gamers?BTW I don’t condone the use of drugs or alcohol... well maybe just drugs.
whiskas
I have a test on friday, so what I'll do is goto bed early thursday night, I'm not staying up *hoping* that anet gets the servers up on time, not like they did in february. Then I wake up early around 7am and play until I have to go take the test, come back, and play non stop until monday, the cat in my avatar will do my sleeping for me. I have to cure 1 month of emptiness in 3 days
John Thomas
So...I'm a teacher and Friday (what I like to call "Late Thursday Night") poses a bit of a problem...even with a nap, I can't stay up AND be worth a damn in the morning...I go to bed a bit extra early and set the alarm for around 3am...I take my laptop to work and play solid until the kids show up...I make sure that the kids in my internet class are working on something "constructive" and I play through lunch and breaks...usually only spend about two hours actually teaching (don't tell my boss)...The best part is, if my bos shows up, I look like I'm working on something and if they get too close....well...I minimize the screen and have my gradebook ready for a quick look...At the end of the day, I drive home and play until my eyes bleed...Last BWE was a 3 day weekend, this one falls on the first weekend of spring break...plenty of time to recover...I slept 4 hours during the last BWE...THIS time I won't run out of coffee 
Rushing Wind
Someone please tell me how I can keep my eyes peeled this entire weekend... I was thinking paper clips or something and stapling it to my head! I'd be happy to have someone re-introduce me to sleep and the entire concept behind it once this weekend has ended. Til then... the zombie in me has awoken!
The only time I HAVE to miss is the first few hours once it opens since I'll be working until 6am! Once I'm on, and my wife is sleeping, I'll be all over this thing! Time to see the walls crawling once I'm done with this weekend!
The only time I HAVE to miss is the first few hours once it opens since I'll be working until 6am! Once I'm on, and my wife is sleeping, I'll be all over this thing! Time to see the walls crawling once I'm done with this weekend!
Uthar
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Someone please tell me how I can keep my eyes peeled this entire weekend... I was thinking paper clips or something and stapling it to my head!
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chalt2
Break toothpicks in half blunt the ends and use them to hold open eyelids. A second method would involve duct tape and super glue...but I would not recommend that one.....
Thundermaine Hilts
Sleep?... Who needs sleep... only bathroom breaks, and those only when the eyes are floating!
Loviatar
i will stay with a regular schedule and may get logged in by 8-10 fri morning
no more than 6 hours per day when i have the time (out of each 24)
no more than 6 hours per day when i have the time (out of each 24)
Weezer_Blue
without the limitations of school in the morning, i am nocturnal. and i can stay up very late (or early, depending on how you look at it) or stay awake for days (i think 5 is the record... and with hard work during the day time hours...)
Rellok
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My record is 42 hours of being awake and I suppose I could have made 48 but there just wasn't a point to it.......that and the walls were starting to move.
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Jormund
Argh, English couldn't have come on a worse day, Friday. So I'm going to try and get to sleep early on Thursday so I can get up early enough to push about 2 hours of game in before class, and when I'm done with that, I will proceed with GW as usual. I plan to sleep very, VERY little this weekend.
Duality
we have to go to a convention this wkend, so it's going to be:
- get off work at midnight
- pack
- play GW until collapse
- get up, and run to con
- do con until collapse sometime saturday night
- get up, come home and play GW until collapse
yeesh. we'll be dead come monday.
- get off work at midnight
- pack
- play GW until collapse
- get up, and run to con
- do con until collapse sometime saturday night
- get up, come home and play GW until collapse
yeesh. we'll be dead come monday.
Dragonne
I seem to have little trouble staying awake until I realize that maybe I should go to bed. Granted that realization time has come sooner and sooner as I've gotten into my 30's but it's still in the 48-50 hour range. I used to stay up 3-4 days at a time just because there were things to do.
I'll probably do the same as I have the last few weekends. Sleep immediately after work/dinner Thursday, wake up 15-20 minutes before game on, play until mid-day Friday (I take fridays off for BWEs, and this Saturday is also my birthday!), take a nap for a few hours, and start playing again once my guild gets home from work Friday evening. After that, it's anybody's guess as the when I'm awake and playing or napping, but I never take more than 4-5 hour breaks for naps.
I'll probably do the same as I have the last few weekends. Sleep immediately after work/dinner Thursday, wake up 15-20 minutes before game on, play until mid-day Friday (I take fridays off for BWEs, and this Saturday is also my birthday!), take a nap for a few hours, and start playing again once my guild gets home from work Friday evening. After that, it's anybody's guess as the when I'm awake and playing or napping, but I never take more than 4-5 hour breaks for naps.
Granamyr
There's always that 4-6 hour timeframe that really kills you when pulling the all-nighter. Once you clear hour 30 or so, 30 to 40 is a breeze. Beyond 40 can be counter productive from a gaming standpoint because A LOT of things have slowed down in your body. I couldn't type anything accurately to save my life. Things start moving on screen that really aren't moving to say nothing of the walls and the floor.
There's also no such thing as a nap after a certain point because any sleep you get would rival that of a coma patient or animal hibernation. It's the best sleep you'll ever get in your life......and well worth whatever suffering you had to get there. All the better if that "suffering" was spent playing Guild Wars the whole time.
There's also no such thing as a nap after a certain point because any sleep you get would rival that of a coma patient or animal hibernation. It's the best sleep you'll ever get in your life......and well worth whatever suffering you had to get there. All the better if that "suffering" was spent playing Guild Wars the whole time.
Blademaster
Im a student and my dad works from home on our only computer which is in my parents room. Which means, Friday morning is gone for me. At around 4pm friday I will get on and not log off untill ~10 pm when my parents start cussing me out of their room . Next morning about 8 am I will start again until ~10 pm once again. Next morning I got church and wont get home until about 12-12:30 pm. At that time ill be on untill 10 pm again. So in total I will only get about 22-25/72 hours!!!!! 
ONLY A FRIGGING THIRD 
:'( . If I had it my way.......Id be on all 72 .
ONLY A FRIGGING THIRD :'( . If I had it my way.......Id be on all 72 .
Kiwi
Since I live in a household with parents, I have sleeping rules. So I will go to bed at 8:30 p.m. and wake up at 5:30 a.m. then I will play till 7:55 a.m. I will return and play again at 3:00 p.m. it will be repeated except without school.
Deliverance
12 litres of red bull stimulation drink and 2 oz of tobacco,pizza delivery numbers stored on quickdial.im ready.. 
MoldyRiceFrenzy
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Argh, English couldn't have come on a worse day, Friday. So I'm going to try and get to sleep early on Thursday so I can get up early enough to push about 2 hours of game in before class, and when I'm done with that, I will proceed with GW as usual. I plan to sleep very, VERY little this weekend.
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whats with this everyone has like english or somthing or a test well my story is im gonna go to sleep today which is wed gets some nice rest so i can take my writing exit benchmark test to pass 8th grade yes im in 8th grade. then i got to do homework when done wake up in 5:30 in the morning so i can start the downloading process because if dil up it took me a entire day to download from chracter creation last bwe. when i come home it should be pretty close to there. just hoope i do well on the exit writng exam and i hope my getting up little earlyier than usualal doesnt effect my mile run on fri.
Gaile Gray
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73 hours... whooo. I knew it was getting out of hand when I got a phone call and picked up the soda bottle next to the phone and started talking into it. The answering machine had picked up by then, so I thought they could hear me. I didn't catch my mistake until I tried to hang the phone up...
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Oh, and as for sleep schedules, I figure if I don't fall asleep at the keyboard at least half a dozen times, I'm really not that tired.
BlackArrow
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. Sometimes I have to wonder if people remember that old "change your socks" thing.
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I plan to play for 4-6 hours when it starts, then get a few hours sleep, then play until I get tired and so on. I'll probably do most of my sleeping at night since thats when my Guildmates are less active, except the Aussie ones. Maybe I should stay up and play with them too.
Dreamsmith
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Sleep?... Who needs sleep...
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Frostty1
I had my gf set the alarm clock for 4:00am this morning. She then jammed her feet into my back and *pushed* me out of bed. *Crawled* (literally) into the shower… ice cold… I just took another ice cold shower about and hour ago… I think I will fall down at about 6:00pm, wake up at 2:00am (just in case they open it up a bit early). Play for a day and a half (up36), sleep 12, play for a day (up24). Then take two days to recover…
If you can believe it last BWE (my 1st) my computer’s power supply pissed off three hour before the BWE. GAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! So I lost 12 hours waiting for the computer stores to open and going to get a new one. I need to make up for lost time.
I once had the unpleasant task of traveling city to city by bus. It took 24 solid hours. While on the bus, I met a guy who had come from the west coast of Canada and was going all the way to the east coast. He had been on the bus for A WEEK straight. I asked him, “How the heck can you sleep in a bus for a week?” With dreay eye, he turned to look at me and casually replied, “Sleep?... What’s that something you eat?”
If you can believe it last BWE (my 1st) my computer’s power supply pissed off three hour before the BWE. GAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! So I lost 12 hours waiting for the computer stores to open and going to get a new one. I need to make up for lost time.
I once had the unpleasant task of traveling city to city by bus. It took 24 solid hours. While on the bus, I met a guy who had come from the west coast of Canada and was going all the way to the east coast. He had been on the bus for A WEEK straight. I asked him, “How the heck can you sleep in a bus for a week?” With dreay eye, he turned to look at me and casually replied, “Sleep?... What’s that something you eat?”
Zaklex
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I'll probably do most of my sleeping at night since thats when my Guildmates are less active, except the Aussie ones. Maybe I should stay up and play with them too. |
Duality
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have a friend that fiend for DII to the point that he would fall asleep while playing. we always knew when he was asleep because upstairs we'd hear "not here..... not in town.........not here......not in town" oooover and ooover. i actually watched him use potions in his sleep too. must have been a hell of a fight in his sleep.
cce
Speaking of sleep... night all... see you in 7 hours...
bobert
errrm its still 9 hours..
Riale
-Obtain Preorder box and make sure code is inside, lick and touch code if nessecary to determine if it's real or not
-Barricade my door shut, sit infront of computer and stare at the Countdown Clock. When it goes off, check, realize it isn't 100% accurate, cry, go do something else for a few hours.
-Log on, pass out, wake up, log on again and manage to stay logged on while boggling at the sheer awesomeness.
The rest should be a sugar crazed blend of hallicinations and game playing until monday, whereupon I sleep for a few days.
-Barricade my door shut, sit infront of computer and stare at the Countdown Clock. When it goes off, check, realize it isn't 100% accurate, cry, go do something else for a few hours.
-Log on, pass out, wake up, log on again and manage to stay logged on while boggling at the sheer awesomeness.
The rest should be a sugar crazed blend of hallicinations and game playing until monday, whereupon I sleep for a few days.
PhineasToke
Everything went according to plan. Finished up with a client at 4:30, came home and let out the dog, hit the sack.
8:30, phone rings, client confirmng an appointment for 10AM tomorrow (I hate when that happens). Now I can't get back to sleep. Will try again shortly, but I needed the sleep tonight.
Sucks for me.
8:30, phone rings, client confirmng an appointment for 10AM tomorrow (I hate when that happens). Now I can't get back to sleep. Will try again shortly, but I needed the sleep tonight.
Sucks for me.
Cruel Skeksis
I shoot for 3.5 hours of sleep druing BWEs. Starting at midnight I play till 2-3 and then start the short sleep. Wakeup, wash, and get breakfast and start again. Always take an hour break for family & dinner, and I take another hour for exercise (swimming for me) because sitting still in a chair for that long is just terrible.
Its not a lot but I learned in the military that if I get at least 3.5 hours I can function well for a few weeks before my system crashes. Doing it over a 3 day stretch isnt great for you, but you can do it and still easily get back on an appropriate sleep schedule without too much harm being done.
Its not a lot but I learned in the military that if I get at least 3.5 hours I can function well for a few weeks before my system crashes. Doing it over a 3 day stretch isnt great for you, but you can do it and still easily get back on an appropriate sleep schedule without too much harm being done.