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princedimwit
Member Posts: 230 Arc User
After much consideration, I have decided to leave the game.
My reasons are many and varied.
For one, I was considering paying real money for zen - upwards of $60 just to get some intangible benefits that I can see on screen. They say the game is free but you can only hold 10,000,000 EC at any given time and fleet modules cost a lot more than that. You'd have to buy the modules or buy a bigger EC bank. Star Trek Online - free to play if you don't want to have a chance of advancing very far with a halfway decent ship, weapons and shields.
This money could be spent on my wife's birthday present or a Saturday trip to the zoo with my daughter - gas, lunch, dinner and admission included.
Also, I've been spending way too much time at the computer. I recognize addiction in myself and I am grateful that I was able to step away and recognize it. I spent an average of 12-16 hours on the game and I could start to feel the muscle in my legs wither away. A conversation I was having with a fleet member made me realize how much time I was spending on the game when I said goodnight to her one evening and when I got up in the morning, she was still on. She'd played all night. It made me look at myself and how the last thing I do during the day was to play the game and the first thing I do was play the game. I then calculated the number of hours I spent at the computer. I was shocked by the result.
Since I've been playing so long, I was having dreams about the game and attributing qualities of it to things in the real world like driving my car figuring what turn rate it might have and if my next car should be better.
I'm off to love in the real world for a time.
You guys take care.
My reasons are many and varied.
For one, I was considering paying real money for zen - upwards of $60 just to get some intangible benefits that I can see on screen. They say the game is free but you can only hold 10,000,000 EC at any given time and fleet modules cost a lot more than that. You'd have to buy the modules or buy a bigger EC bank. Star Trek Online - free to play if you don't want to have a chance of advancing very far with a halfway decent ship, weapons and shields.
This money could be spent on my wife's birthday present or a Saturday trip to the zoo with my daughter - gas, lunch, dinner and admission included.
Also, I've been spending way too much time at the computer. I recognize addiction in myself and I am grateful that I was able to step away and recognize it. I spent an average of 12-16 hours on the game and I could start to feel the muscle in my legs wither away. A conversation I was having with a fleet member made me realize how much time I was spending on the game when I said goodnight to her one evening and when I got up in the morning, she was still on. She'd played all night. It made me look at myself and how the last thing I do during the day was to play the game and the first thing I do was play the game. I then calculated the number of hours I spent at the computer. I was shocked by the result.
Since I've been playing so long, I was having dreams about the game and attributing qualities of it to things in the real world like driving my car figuring what turn rate it might have and if my next car should be better.
I'm off to love in the real world for a time.
You guys take care.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
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Have a good one! Enjoy whatever game you decide to play instead.
Do you know what a business is?
Now that's out the way, good luck with whatever you decide to do in all the free time you'll gain
Life was passing me by when I was prisoner to online single player gaming. I'm thankful for S8 in a way, for making me realize I spend too much time in front of the PC.
Awoken Dead
Now shaddup about the queues, it's a BUG
Pretty sure individual fleet modules cost under 10 mill per. If you're seeing them listed at more than that, you should be patient and not buy them at that inflated price.
"We are smart." - Grebnedlog
Member of Alliance Central Command/boq botlhra'ghom
Fair winds and clear horizon to you!
Farewell!
Please come back?
In other news, you DO now that
A) the Devs have to pay for the servers, and their time programming. Money is needed to keep a business going.
b) Even with that, you can earn dil can convert it to zen. Doing this, you can unlock the EC cap limit within a few weeks, easy.
Still free to play.
I totally agree here, with the loss of my own characters that can not be restored, I too realize that I am spending way too much time in front of the PC, and recognizing that you are addicted is the first step.
There is much to be enjoyed about such a game, there is also much to be enjoyed in life as well. Finding a balance, or just letting go isn't easy, attachments are struggles to let loose. I applaud you for your mindful insight. Do not feel guilty about your decision for letting the game go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEqUyNaSdvg
You have played so much bu you haven't unlocked the EC cap? @_@
Goodbye.
I live in an alternate universe, where j.j. abrams and cryptic never existed,
where R.S.E. is what it always should be.
Point missed entirely. You'll get it eventually.
You can't Quit and then watch the thread and respond..that's not how this works.
Seriously? 20 lines (with paragraphs, no less) is a "wall o' text"?
Never pick up a book.
Not to keep you from your graceful exit but a single monthly subscription (15 bucks) buys the EC cap increase, another character slot, 20 account bank slots, and a respec token for every level your toon increases during the sub period. You get to keep all this when you end subscription.
Awoken Dead
Now shaddup about the queues, it's a BUG
Anyway, where at the Mods or Brandon to lick this thread down?
For a forum post about quitting, yep too much. I read quite often. Wanna fight about it? :rolleyes:
I think he missed the point entirely. He'll get it eventually.
I Support Disco | Disco is Love | Disco is Life
And putting smiles after insults makes them ok! You don't know me!
Say it again I dare you
OMG wall o' text!
For someone offering to start a forum fight anyway.