Anyone else find themselves running WoW errands

On their lunch hour?

I got up this morning and my first thought was: "I have to go see the Paladin trainer in Stormwind". Then I thought, as long as I'm there I can do some smelting, send some stuff to Reap...

The dilemma is when? I must do it before I login this evening because I don't want to waste valuable killing time. Hey! I can do it today during my lunch.......

I think I have a problem.

It''s a lunch ''hour''. Who says you need to confine it to just errands? But yeah, I get your point - I do find myself hopping into WoW when I have an odd 15 or 30 minutes, to travel or train or the like.

Don''t think of it as a problem. Think of it as effective time management :).

I''m with you. Sometimes I even log in the morning to setup auctions and such.

Oh yeah...if my kids are watching a movie or something and their attention is totally occupied I will sneak into the office to check my auctions or decide what zone I''m playing in tonight and get the travel out of the way.

I started on Friday. Someone shoot me I''m gonna fail college.
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I try to hit WoW on my noon lunch break just to handle auctions. I find that''s the best time to get my wares for sale before the kids get home from school and the grownups get home from work. When I log in later that night I typically find that 75% of my auctions have already been bought.

When you guys are mentioning you log in at lunch time....

Do you work at home? Have the game installed at work? Not work?

I''m lucky enough to have a work-provided laptop with a Radeon Mobility 9200 installed. It''s has just enough power to run WoW and HL2. So, instead of going out to an expensive lunch with my coworkers I usually stay in, read Penny-Arcade, Slashdot & CNN on my desktop, enjoy a microwaved garden burger and get some WoW time in without the wife hassling me.

"Lock&Load" wrote:

I''m lucky enough to have a work-provided laptop with a Radeon Mobility 9200 installed. It''s has just enough power to run WoW and HL2. So, instead of going out to an expensive lunch with my coworkers I usually stay in, read Penny-Arcade, Slashdot & CNN on my desktop, enjoy a microwaved garden burger and get some WoW time in without the wife hassling me. :)

Lock,

Just curious, do you have two installs of WoW or just one? I was thinking of installing it on my laptop as well to provide some ""portability"". I just didn''t know if Blizzard allowed it.

"Edwin" wrote:

I started on Friday. Someone shoot me I''m gonna fail college.
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Back when I was in school, ''84-''88 I didn''t have a PC. I do remember playing an awful lot of really bad Atari games though. If I had a PC and WoW when I was in college, there is NO WAY I would have ever graduated.

Lock,

Just curious, do you have two installs of WoW or just one? I was thinking of installing it on my laptop as well to provide some ""portability"". I just didn''t know if Blizzard allowed it

You can install it on as many machines as you like; personally I have it on three. You can only be logged in to WoW on a single machine at a time, though.

And boy, does having it on a laptop make a huge difference when travelling. With all my tech-inclined relatives and the hotels with broadband, I always have an opportunity to play when not at home.

I started on Friday. Someone shoot me I''m gonna fail college.

Control, control, you must learn control!

...says a guy that ran a 30 minute errand to Thunder Bluff this morning.

"Lock&Load" wrote:
Lock,

Just curious, do you have two installs of WoW or just one? I was thinking of installing it on my laptop as well to provide some ""portability"". I just didn''t know if Blizzard allowed it

You can install it on as many machines as you like; personally I have it on three. You can only be logged in to WoW on a single machine at a time, though.

I also have it installed on both my desktop and laptop. It''s incredibly convenient to not be tied to the home office to play.

I think the official Blizzard wording in their game manual is that you are free to install it on any or all PCs you have direct control over. Of course, as LL mentions, you can''t be logged in on multiple machines at the same time.

I''ve got it on 3 machines myself - my work rig (home office), my gaming rig (wheelie cart downstairs in the living room - I still get the occasional grief from the Mrs. on that one), and my laptop.

The unfortunate part, as some of you are aware, is that my gaming rig is the most unstable of the three. Although I think I''ve only had one mid game crash since I updated the audio drivers.

The laptop is the worst of the three, and can just barely play the game. But sometimes there''s much to be said for being able to kick your feet up in the easy chair and play.

I still haven''t installed it at the work office. Though I don''t usually take a lunch to speak of when I have to go in, so I can shorten my day that much. And I''m only in 2 or 3 days a week, anyhow, so I''ve just never bothered.

I take my laptop to work, with WoW installed on it, and when it gets late and slows down I log in for an hour or two. I feel kinda guilty and wonder if anyone (IT) is paying attention. Nothing like getting a little WoW in on company time.

Oh how I used to wish that Rubies and Horizons would work behind the company firewall. Does WoW do this?

I take my laptop to work, with WoW installed on it, and when it gets late and slows down I log in for an hour or two. I feel kinda guilty and wonder if anyone (IT) is paying attention. Nothing like getting a little WoW in on company time.

I''m friends with the head of our IT department and I asked him about this. He said that none of the network support software he uses even noticed that I was playing. No alarms, no excessive bandwidth warnings. He didn''t even really know I was playing until he looked at the logs for my IP address really close between 12 and 2 PM.

As far as the Firewall, well, I believe our Cisco router is fairly well locked down and I can still get out with WoW. I remember a friend of mine used a port redirection program (I believe it was called DXPort) to allow him to play Starfleet Command 3 on the Net during his lunchbreak. He was having issues connecting to the Dynaverse servers over several different ports and redirected them on his system to open ports on the firewall. That was a few years ago, though.

Bear, sorry to get on these tangents. We now return to your thread, already in progress...

If I COULD login and do stuff at my lunch hour, I would''ve been doing such a long time ago

CEJ caught me online at lunch on xfire, and sent me ''You have a problem!"" as a message...

I logged and safely went back to work...sigh

"Edwin" wrote:

I started on Friday. Someone shoot me I''m gonna fail college.
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It''s when you''re supposed to study for History and thought ""A little WoW won''t hurt"" should you really worry about failing college.

Yes, I''m still struggling.

In one week I hit 45 hours. At least I got to lvl 17 last night.

I am currently using lunch to set up quests for that Night.
Hey Ed I also Hit 17 last night!

Is It wrong to check your vacation time at work , to see if you can take a day to play more?

I''ve heard sick days work well Loki...so I''ve heard...

Boo-yeah! I went out of the office to a local hotspot with a free hi-speed connection and Bam! was on...went up a level and finished a quest that was a little time-consuming....lunch was sweet, indeed....