How much of your life...

[RedBull1]

Far too much! 

[HamrDown]

Too much time. Been scaling back my time to about 8-12hrs a week total. 

[Volron]

...have you spent flying Aces High?

Josh

Not enough...

[Ardy123]

About 10,000 hours virtual flight time in the MA's alone. At least 20% more just watching the map. Many hundreds of hours more for TA work as a trainer, BBS work, flight & program tests, programming, statistical works.

Conservative estimate 14,000 hours total.  

I could have learned a forgeign language, a musical instrument or almost any trade in that time.  

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Well, at lest when your laying on your death bed thinking of all your accomplishments and what people will remember you for, you can think to yourself, "scheisse, I spent my life playing AH, and midway somehow logged more hours than me!"

[JUGgler]

Too much, currently volunteering none 

Honestly don't see a return to it either 



JUGgler

[kilz]

IDK 2003 2004 use to log like 170+ hours a tour

now i am happy to get 10 hours a tour

[icepac]

60% of my time in aces high is away from keyboard.

[lunatic1]

100 to 150 hrs a month

[Changeup]

About 10,000 hours virtual flight time in the MA's alone. At least 20% more just watching the map. Many hundreds of hours more for TA work as a trainer, BBS work, flight & program tests, programming, statistical works.

Conservative estimate 14,000 hours total.  

I could have learned a forgeign language, a musical instrument or almost any trade in that time.  

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If you apply the general 10,000 hour rule, you would be an expert at any one of those other vocations. 

Outliers
The story of successful people
Malcolm gladwell

[Changeup]

Too much, currently volunteering none 

Honestly don't see a return to it either 



JUGgler

JUG,

I'm getting to that point myself.  Kids, work and I've reached the point of no return on getting any better in the game without committing massive amounts of time to flying.

Speaking of time...anyone seen Dodger?  Nope...

[mthrockmor]

Without checking I would guess I average about 40-50 hour a month. I know, a full work week.

For that time commitment I know I could get another degree, etc. I'm ok with my time spent playing this game. I work 60-90 hours a week, and literally book family time weeks in advance. All I do is work and fight for time with the family. Playing this game is the only downtime I get. Yes, I could do something else with the time like get an MBA but then I would have zero stress relief per se.

All work and no play makes Boo a grumpy bstrd. So back to my 109G2 for the next couple months. Balance in life is necessary. AH is part of my balance.

Boo

[Changeup]

Without checking I would guess I average about 40-50 hour a month. I know, a full work week.

For that time commitment I know I could get another degree, etc. I'm ok with my time spent playing this game. I work 60-90 hours a week, and literally book family time weeks in advance. All I do is work and fight for time with the family. Playing this game is the only downtime I get. Yes, I could do something else with the time like get an MBA but then I would have zero stress relief per se.

All work and no play makes Boo a grumpy bstrd. So back to my 109G2 for the next couple months. Balance in life is necessary. AH is part of my balance.

Boo

I'm not complaining...it's been a great ride.  I've met a lot of fantastic folks and i have a head full of more useless WW II aviation trivia than all my numb-nuts friends put together.  In fact, more than my boss Whois an ex-B52 driver and a self-proclaimed war historian.  (who argued for 10 minutes that all the Navy HOGS carried 20mm cannons)

[MarineUS]

I wish I could tell ya but I've had a few different accounts from a long ways back.

I always wished AH was compatible with XFire so I could record my hours.

Heck let's see my top 3 games on XFire.

     Game:                            Hours in the last 7 days                         Total Hours
 World of Tanks                           21 hours                                           1,355
 America's Army                            0 hours                                            879
 Call of Duty 2                              0 hours                                            387




Now: Compared to my max recorded hours of total gaming (This does not include AH and other games not compatible with XFire and also does not account for the months I went without an internet connection and played single player games or moments when XFire was down.) I have: 5,418 hours.

[Molsman]

the people that i have met are what have kept me here for the 10 or so years ive been playing not the game itself, it got boring years ago.

you mean you like me Grumpy????? not many do

[Rich52]

None of its "wasted". The point of living is to take care of the things you have to do and then do the things that you like to do. Work every hour and scrounge every cent and you'll probably end up dieing young, rich, alone, and all after a boreing life. For me TV, puters, have taken the place of movies, chasing girls, boozing....ect. You only got one life so fill it with leisure time too.