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I've been scratching my head for a while about this, so i'll ask it simply: How often do you DMs play on Amia instead of being as a DM in-game? =)

Depends on the DM.

About 10 hours this year.

Dev Disco wrote:

About 10 hours this year.

20 in fact.

To give you more statistics let me add what I wrote in another thread;

I played in the period between the 4'th of June and 4'th of October roughly 328 hours of nwn. 76,22 % of those I spent in the dm client so 'round 78 player hours in that time. Do mind that is just my personal information and does not apply to other dms.

Nekhy wrote:

Dev Disco wrote:

About 10 hours this year.

20 in fact.

No, the first 10 were testing the job system. I know I did 10 because it's all the time I spent on my last toon and I wanted to know how much time it'd take me to gain levels on Abroad.

My ratio of the last two years is 0.62, which means more player time.

Maias227 wrote:

To give you more statistics let me add what I wrote in another thread;

I played in the period between the 4'th of June and 4'th of October roughly 328 hours of nwn. 76,22 % of those I spent in the dm client so 'round 78 player hours in that time. Do mind that is just my personal information and does not apply to other dms.

He also manages to fit in a good few hours a week kicking my ass at AoE.

On a more serious note, does the dm team stil play under alt accounts so as not to be hassled when player side?

Roughly 2/3s of my time is Playerside, with the other third being DMside, though I admitedly haven't been in Amia much at all lately.

EDIT: Forgot a negative where it changed the meaning of the post

Heh, lately, past 3 weeks? My "lately" was the summer!

On average, though, I DM twice as much as I play. Playing was, for a very long time, something I only did occasionally. But now I got into it again, so I've clocked most of my playing hours of this year in the past months.

Dev Disco wrote:

Nekhy wrote:

Dev Disco wrote:

About 10 hours this year.

20 in fact.

No, the first 10 were testing the job system. I know I did 10 because it's all the time I spent on my last toon and I wanted to know how much time it'd take me to gain levels on Abroad.

dont forget when we were testing the house system as well. so knock off afew more hours.

DM Hours - 822
Player Hours - 937

DM:Player Ratio =

0.88:1

Alternatively; 46.73% of my time is spent DMside.

My current Ratio is 1.24. This means I spend 1.24 hours on the DM client for every 1 hour I spend on playerside.

The exact numbers are not your business but they are quite high.

As Ron put it, in laymen's terms I spend ~56% of my time on Amia DMing.

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On a more serious note, does the dm team stil play under alt accounts so as not to be hassled when player side?

I do not. Mind that this means a portion of my player time is also spent "Part Time DMing", solving issues via tells and answering questions, which is done "For Free". I don't mind it, I stay on my main accoutn purposefully. Gives me "Presence".

I really like the varying degrees of the different DMs, gives a much better perspective to the whole DM team. As long as you DMs are also enjoying yourselves with playing a character or DMing, which ever you like the most, then it helps all of us to enjoy ourselves. My hat is off to you all.

Doesn’t using your DM logon name cause unwarranted attention though?: I would figure it much harder to see and appreciate the RP going on around you.

No, not really. At least for me anyways. I'm a chatty person both on playerside and client and I learned to multitask and tune things out so it really doesn't affect me. And if it does begin to affect my immersion, I simply ignore the other messages.

Tubsie wrote:

I've been scratching my head for a while about this, so i'll ask it simply: How often do you DMs play on Amia instead of being as a DM in-game? =)

Point taken.

TormakSaber wrote:

No, not really. At least for me anyways. I'm a chatty person both on playerside and client and I learned to multitask and tune things out so it really doesn't affect me. And if it does begin to affect my immersion, I simply ignore the other messages.

Yes, particularly when he does something stupid like spawn a high level monster in a low level area, at 5am in the morning, and not expected an event to suddenly spew out of thin air. <_<

It was a CR 6 vampire (slightly DMbuffed) against a party of 4-6's! It was a level appropriate encounter!

Tormak isnt bothered much because of his badass forum image, which I would believe quite effectively deters stupid questions playerside.

Once you do find the courage to poke him with questions in tells, he is quite welcoming however. But Im still nervous...

Maias and Iron are soft and cuddly both DM and playerside though

Just because a DM is generally nice, don't expect they'll be happy to answer questions playerside, btw. I'm quite happy to answer what I can when DMing, even chat about random stuff, but I might bite your head off if you don't take the first hint "Sorry, I am playing now, can I please focus on that and chat about this DMy stuff later?"

I began DMing on week 30, 2008, and my total ratio is 1.4 now. I've spent 702 hours in DM client, 502 hours PC side, if we do not count this week (as it has not ended yet).

Hmm.

Is it possible to get the total amount of hours a player has spent on Amia?

There's some pretty scary numbers on that chart, and they ain't a complete history, either.

Seriously, you don't want to know how many years you lost on a game.

The sum of player hours a week is somewhere between 7500 and 11000 hours.

Oh, but I do want to know

Too many hours.

Haha. I didn't even take a look at it, btw.

I know you didn't.

I took a look. It's pretty hardcore.

can we get an anonymous top 10?

belgianbonzai wrote:

can we get an anonymous top 10? :)

I concur.

I guess. >_>;;

Ooh ooh! I wanna know, too!

I'm pretty sure I've had a good run, even with all the periods away from the game.

And also, I used to be nervous about poking DMs for any reason what so ever, but that's more because I didn't like the attention. Made me feel like I had to perform more than I thought I already did. Then I realized that I'm playing for my own entertainment, and that of the people around me, and not as a puppet for the DM/s, unless I'm in an event, and that made it more bareable. Besides, most of 'em are pretty decent people, it seems!

I know, right? Who would've thought? :lol:

Maybe it is better not to know. It might be frightening.

Dakotaen wrote:

[...]And also, I used to be nervous about poking DMs for any reason what so ever[...]

But you have Chris to poke, haven't you? I remember making a screenie of that quite a while ago...

[edit: I made the most embarrassing typo there.. haha. Let's say it was a -t too many and it had something to do with Mr Mosh.]

I do seem to recall something about a screenie. <.< I'm not sure I want to fully remember. Anywho, yes, I do have Chris(tine) to poke. He's such a sassy little thing.

ClockworkRed wrote:

Maybe it is better not to know. It might be frightening.

No. It's never better not to know! :twisted:

*is pretty sure there are some Amia players putting WoW devotees to shame*

>.>....I'm also curious about that top ten.

Could make for an interesting study to see if there is any correlation between playertime and release of new games.

Hah.

Disco called me Christ.

QPR wrote:

Could make for an interesting study to see if there is any correlation between playertime and release of new games.

You'll see more correlation between start of school / exam periods / hollidays etc. etc.

MoshingChris wrote:

Hah.

Disco called me Christ.

Well, that wasn't the most embarrassing part. The image of Danny poking Our Lord kinda scorched my mind.

Gives "fuck religion" a whole new meaning, eh? :twisted:

MoshingChris Patron Saint of Rough Poking

May the Kellies burn you both for blasphemy.

What's the point of an anonymous Top 10?

And it should be hours/week over the years one's been playing. Minimum one year, I'd say.

The DM tools also provide the distribution of your hours spent.

If I recall, there were four brackets of user:

1) Amia instead of bad TV: Plays a couple of hours a day, tops. You'd see nothing at all 9-5, then the the hours racked up kinda raggedly in the 6-11 slot. More hours at the weekend, again in a semi-random pattern.

2) Amia instead of any other recreation: Jumps from zero to a flat set of bars in the 6-11. Solid at weekends.

3) Amia instead of work or education: Same as above, but with a big dent for their sleep pattern, usually 4am to noon.

4) Amia instead of work, education and any sleep except naps: Flat set of bars 24/7. I found this was a huge red flag for craziness. Not all people that have a 24/7 spread of hours are mentalists, but all the really scary ZOMG-so-glad-she/he's-banned people had no pattern whatsoever to their playing times.

For simply logistical reasons, the really heavy duty players all have to be in 3 or 4 to rack up the hours per week.

Xaviera wrote:

What's the point of an anonymous Top 10?

Because not everybody would be happy to see that they are playing, whatever, 70 hours/week which i'm sure some (if not all) of the top 10 reach.

Some people because they don't want others to know.
Some because it would be too confrontational to realise how much time they spend on here.

And in general because amia staff should not start posting peoples statistics without consent. If people say they are ok with being posted, then their names can be filled in. If not, then not.

I'd like to see the hours the top ten put in (and who they are, too, if they're willing).

Well I'm not sure about all of you, but apparently I've spent something like 1800 hours playing Amia over the last year and a half.
I'm not sure if that's entirely correct, but I know I've managed to do around 900+ hours over eight months. Don't think I'll be up there with the rest of you folks given the time Amia has been around, though.

I'm willing! But I doubt I'm in the top ten. Top thirty, maybe. In any case, I have no need of being anonymous, I couldn't care less what any of you, bar a few, think of me and my playing schedule. :wink:

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