Kilsin said:Do you plan out your gaming sessions in advance or do you just log in and go with whatever you feel like at the time? #PRF #MMORPG #MMO #communitymatters
Nice I have some time to visit the forums today. Rare indeed. In regards to gaming sessions it goes back and forth. Sometimes at work or while driving home I think of things I want to do in the game and it will make me log in with purpose. Other times I log in just to see what will happen. Even if that something turns out to be running in circles while chatting.
-Todd
I love to be a planner, if the game dynamics promote the idea.
To sit and stew over thoughts and strategies makes me tick.
One thought will boil in my head all day sometimes. It makes the work day either go by like lightning or draaag like heck antcipating the moment when I get home, crack the circuit on, fire up the computer and go live to try out my grand, or ill concieved idea.
Thats gaming !!!
It kinda depends on the previous gaming session. So i guess if i ended with nothing going on i will go with the flow, but if i ended in the middle of a quest i am going to want to finish that up. But i have been known to delay quests if a really good group is available, or if it is raid night.
I almost always plan things. I set goals, I research areas/items/spells/quests that I want to pursue, and I plot out a course around the world that will give me the highest probability of accomplishing more than one thing at a time. It's one of the things I miss most about MMO's these days that require you to follow a prescribed path. What's the point in researching or planning when the game guides you thru everything?
Plan it out. Such as gathering raw materials and craft potions for the next days raid. Someone asks for some help aquiring pelts (or whatever) so I plan on helping the guildy (sometimes not a guildy) with farming them up because I can. I plan on organizing my bank or farming enough coin to buy the next furnishing for the house. Previous games that had dailies; do the dailies (which gets old and caused me to leave more than a few games). Even in exploration I plan on exposing 50% of a zone or doing a dungeon run.
I do the planning a few hours to a day before. Doesn't mean I stick to the plan though, ... stuff sometimes comes up. Requests for help etc or being on a PvP server and a glass cannon means you suffer annoying 1 shotting stealthers that can ruin the best laid plans.