I have 2 simple rules that work for me:
First I have work time/study time/family time and private time.
Second I do hobbies only in private time and switch them frequently.
I do admit that I have a game addiction so I do other such addictive stuff too and it works for me. Seems that some people do need to have addictions in order to be happy.
I have months with heavy gaming (30+ hours in week) in my free time and months with no gaming at all.
First point is to set clear rules for yourself- time for work/study/family and then your private time.
It is bad if your private time is gaming only- you start to be zombie so the solution is to have couple of hobbies in order to change your addictions. I do ski/MTB/swimming and fishing together with hardware assembling/gaming. I just switch them often with each other so I does not zombie at single thing. Other helpful thing is to cutting the virtual game buddies to minimum because you together form some virtual society and you socialize with this people in the virtual world instead of socializing with real people in real world- this brings disaster. Play for the fun of playing- no clans no factions no long term commitments.
(10-09-2013, 10:51 AM)Knjaz Wrote: Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)
