Hours Simming Per Week?

How many hours/week do you guys spend actually playing the sims? I can't seem to find enough time.... jb

about 70 per week :) > How many hours/week do you guys spend actually playing the sims? I can't > seem to find enough time.... > jb -- Rob Swindells "Add life to your days, not days to your life." "The greatest substitute for talent is hard work." "Doing it, is better than watching it, is better than simulating it." "I may not be perfect, but parts of me are excellent."

I get up 1? hour early most mornings to race (thats at 06:15) And then I try to squeese in 1? - 2 hours every evening. Total 25 - 30 hours a week including weekends. NOT ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!! I wish I had no job - I could sim more - But could I afford the computer and games ?????? BR Thomas Soerensen GPL Enthusiast from Denmark Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

> How many hours/week do you guys spend actually playing the sims? I can't > seem to find enough time.... > jb In my case, I can drive 24/7. WinVROC is a ghost town with 4 or 5 servers running. Sometimes there's a driver or two in at least one of them between 8:am and 1:pm EST. After that, it varies till about 4:30is pm when it starts to hop and more servers and more drivers show up and actually race. So, Figure between 4:pm and 11:30 pm EST, I'm racing. That's about 7 hours a day available to race. Now I just have to fin some Europeans, Asians, and Australians, that like F3's -- ========================================= Mike Barlow of Barlow Racing? ========================================= http://members.xoom.com/BarlowRacing/ Racing online with the help of...... Race Communications Association Holodyne Engineering Mystic Music (have Your !!Name/Address!! placed here)

You might like to think about joining the GPML Mike. I hear they have some handy Euro drivers in there <Cough> MS > > How many hours/week do you guys spend actually playing the sims? I can't

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> > seem to find enough time.... > > jb > In my case, I can drive 24/7. WinVROC is a ghost town with 4 or 5 > servers running. Sometimes there's a driver or two in at least one of > them between 8:am and 1:pm EST. After that, it varies till about 4:30is > pm when it starts to hop and more servers and more drivers show up and > actually race. > So, Figure between 4:pm and 11:30 pm EST, I'm racing. That's about 7 > hours a day available to race. Now I just have to fin some Europeans, > Asians, and Australians, that like F3's > -- > ========================================= > Mike Barlow of Barlow Racing? > ========================================= > http://members.xoom.com/BarlowRacing/ > Racing online with the help of...... > Race Communications Association > Holodyne Engineering > Mystic Music > (have Your !!Name/Address!! placed here)

With work, wife and kids, I only get about 10 - 15 hours a week. I wish playing racing SIMS was my job. Wouldn't that be something?! >How many hours/week do you guys spend actually playing the sims? I can't >seem to find enough time.... >jb

Received the sim the first week of December 1999, pb at monza is 1:29:86 in a Ferrari - time spent is 5 to 7 hours per week Michael Loos

> You might like to think about joining the GPML Mike. I hear they have some > handy Euro drivers in there <Cough> LOL, That's a good one :) The only problem is that they don't show up till real late in the day, Say about 7 or 8:pm GMT at the earliest. -- ========================================= Mike Barlow of Barlow Racing? ========================================= http://members.xoom.com/BarlowRacing/ Racing online with the help of...... Race Communications Association Holodyne Engineering Mystic Music (have Your !!Name/Address!! placed here)

>How many hours/week do you guys spend actually playing the sims? I can't >seem to find enough time.... I would like to say around 40-50 hours a week..... but I can't. It's a roller coaster for me - sometimes I get to spend 3 or 4 hours a day for a few days inna row, then sometimes I don't fire one up at all for over a week..... When I put together a season, I'll usually log close to 15 hours or so in a week, but just seat time fluctuates a lot ~I get on different little kicks - Drakan for instance, I didn't mess with much of anything when I got it - then I'll get in a UnReal mood or something for a while - hmmm, haven't fired up Quake lately and I still need to finish Interstate '76 - DANGIT! why'd you bring this up?!! <G>

I will usually spend about 4 hours an evening, three or four nights a week simming. Maybe a few hours at the weekend, and I try to get a novice race in some mornings before work. So between 15-20 hours per week i would say. Chris * Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet's Discussion Network * The fastest and easiest way to search and participate in Usenet - Free!

I'd have to say between painting cars in N3 and GPL, working on the track im making for N2/99, and actual driving I spend close to 40 hours a week. However I'm only 17 and dont have a job so time isnt a huge issue. Now if i can just become independantly wealthy I'll never need a job and i can play sims 24/7. Ahh the life I would live if I hit the lottery.... Chris "Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass."--Mark Twain

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] (Schlomo4) writes: >I'd have to say between painting cars in N3 and GPL, working on the track im >making for N2/99, and actual driving I spend close to 40 hours a week. >However >I'm only 17 and dont have a job so time isnt a huge issue. Now if i can just >become independantly wealthy I'll never need a job and i can play sims 24/7. >Ahh the life I would live if I hit the lottery.... Heck, if I won the lotto, I'd try to get into REAL racing! Where's your sense of adventure? <g> Eldred -- Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 Own Grand Prix Legends? Goto http://gpl.gamestats.com/vroc Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

Now I just have to fin some Europeans, >Asians, and Australians, that like F3's >-- I'm in South Africa and I love the F3's! Please are there any other SA (or southern african) drivers out there? Chris * Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet's Discussion Network * The fastest and easiest way to search and participate in Usenet - Free!

So this is the reason I'm so slow (GPL) compared to everyone out here. sjeez I envy you guys being able to spend so much time on it. I only VR (virtual race that is) 2 or 3 nights a week and even then 2 hours at the most which adds up to 6 to 8 hours a week. -- Jan Hovius J.H.Hovius.vcf < 1K Download

Jan Hovius <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > So this is the reason I'm so slow (GPL) compared to everyone out here.sjeez I > envy you guys being able to spend so much time on it. I only VR (virtualrace > that is) 2 or 3 nights a week and even then 2 hours at the most which addsup > to 6 to 8 hours a week. I believe strongly that there is some natural ability involved. There is a definite gap between the fastest of the so-so's and the slowest of the hot-shoes. (I'm in the so-so group, and not near the front.) I guess the question is: given enough time behind a wheel, could you beat Michael Schumacher consistently enough to be in real contention for the F1 crown? For me personally, the answer is simply no. He has some quality -- whether it's eyesight, reflexes, dexterity, whatever -- that separates the likes of him from the likes of me. I sim about 20 hrs a week. I have a good academic understanding of the problem of racing. My equipment is about as good as it gets. I've been sim-racing since ICR/NCR. In short, I'm as well or better equipped to win as the next person, but I don't. Now, after about 20 hours on O'ring, I'm still fully 4 seconds behind the leaders in a race. That doesn't sound like much, but the leaders put me a full lap down after 26 laps; in a full GP race, they'll lap me twice. I'm faster in, through, and out of the important fast corners, and holding my own in the slow ones. None of this helps me understand how they rocket past me on the straights, topping out at 180+ to my wimpy 175. I'm happy to finish the race without having wrecked the car. Two hours of hanging onto the edge of traction is enough accomplishment for me. Winning would be a nice bonus, but I have no illusions of that. Lest you think it's the attitude that separates us, rest assured that I gave that up only recently, and very grudgingly at that. Michael.