Simparadox Posted December 11, 2001 Report Share Posted December 11, 2001 ...okay, maybe not. I'm probably not the first person to try this, but I figured it might be fun. Before I get into explaining my plan I should say that I have about five computers in my room (and parts for a few more - so sue me, I'm a geek - I like being able to choose what OS I want to use on a daily basis ). The computer I use for work (web development) is a 1.4ghz Athlon with a Radeon 8500, but I've got a terrible HSF on the cpu and it tends to overheat when I run games on it for any prolonged period of time. Anyway, my new HSF came in the mail yesterday and I can keep it running intensive programs for almost 24 hours straight with no heat issues......once I realized this, I knew what I had to do. For the next week I'm going to keep a BCM game running on it 24/7 (Yes! Screw work! BCM forever!) and try to survive the entire time. I'll run actual system-wide patrols while I'm doing work or playing something on another computer, taking over the helm when a serious situation comes up. During repairs I can come back onto this computer and feed my BCM Forum addictions. Yes... for the next week I will live the game! Muahahahaha! I'll keep you all posted on how it goes...Disclaimer: I am not responsible for any serious trauma or depression brought on by the above glimpse into my pathetic life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Islander Posted December 11, 2001 Report Share Posted December 11, 2001 LOL!!Gamaliel out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soback Posted December 11, 2001 Report Share Posted December 11, 2001 What are you going to do when you go to sleep? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolferz Posted December 11, 2001 Report Share Posted December 11, 2001 Ahhh, what kind of medpacs are you on, and.... Did you bring enough for everyone? [ 12-11-2001: Message edited by: Wolferz ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrongm Posted December 11, 2001 Report Share Posted December 11, 2001 When I sleep, I normaly park on planet, (somewhere secluded) Shut the engines down, lower the shields, and put out the drones. I also take most crew off duty. Just make sure you got around 1000 radine before you attempt this, or you will not be a happy camper come the next day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simparadox Posted December 11, 2001 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2001 quote:Originally posted by Soback: What are you going to do when you go to sleep?Probably land on a relatively safe planet. I was thinking about docking, but I want the game to actually continue in real-time for as long as I can. I've had it running since I made that post. Set up a new terran military roam game and I played it for a few hours. Overnight I landed on the moon while my drones did some work. I just left a few minutes ago and deployed probes to nearby systems, now I'm running a patrol around the Earth jump locations, Earth itself, Galcom HQ, etc.I have to say, it's been a pretty damn cool experience so far. I can play without actively seeking out a lot of trouble, since I only have to go over to the computer when something comes up. So far I've already foiled two Gam attacks just because I happened to be patrolling the area when they came in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richterm Posted December 11, 2001 Report Share Posted December 11, 2001 Now that, sir, is the bomb!You have just demonstrated why I need to convince my wife that I need another high endish system...sicne I also do not want to go without my Dark Age of Camelot fix. Of course, I'm so hot headed that I'm lucky to survive 30 minutes...so maybe this play style is not for me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richterm Posted December 14, 2001 Report Share Posted December 14, 2001 So...status report?We're all eager to know what's going down... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephanos Posted December 18, 2001 Report Share Posted December 18, 2001 Any news? Still running? Let us know, please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted December 18, 2001 Report Share Posted December 18, 2001 Yeah!! I wanna know too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander Blake Posted December 18, 2001 Report Share Posted December 18, 2001 quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: Yeah!! I wanna know too yea...umm...ditto...heh...if I had more than one computer that was above 100mhz...I could dco this too...but right now...nope..maybe in a few years... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epsilon 5 Posted December 19, 2001 Report Share Posted December 19, 2001 If I had a third computer and one that isn't as noisy as hell (my new comp makes WAY too much noises for me... and it's not my hard-drive...) I would probably do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simparadox Posted December 21, 2001 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2001 quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: Yeah!! I wanna know too Massive loads of work kept me away from computer games in general (including BCM) for the past week and a few days. And I'm thinking the holidays are going to do the same. Anyway, the few days I actually had to spend with the 24/7 BCM game was awesome. Seriously, I'd recommend trying it to anyone who can. I almost feel like it's the way the game is meant to be played. Anyway, once this whole real life phase passes and I have at least 4 or 5 hours a day at home again I'm going to start it up. I also plan on making a website to show off screenshots from the game and link they together in a sort of story form. So stay tuned. EDIT: By the way, I was only able to keep it running for about 2 days (happy to report no crashes in that time period, though ) because I was too stupid to move all of my important work files from that computer's harddrive to the network drive. Now that I've done that and downloaded the latest patch I'm going to start the whole 24/7 BCM project up again sometime over christmas break. My goal is to keep it running for one week at the very least.[ 12-21-2001: Message edited by: Simparadox ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted December 21, 2001 Report Share Posted December 21, 2001 quote:Originally posted by Simparadox: My goal is to keep it running for one week at the very least.[ 12-21-2001: Message edited by: Simparadox ]Make sure you have an ample support of Radine and Nutripaks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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