What's the longest you've stayed awake playing EQ?

[getlostgreg]

...and what drugs did you use to achieve that?

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[jacob54311]

...and what drugs did you use to achieve that?

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Probably about 24 hours. And that was just because I was so hooked on playing. Not because I was doing some camp or anything.

Caffeine was all I needed for that.

[Brut]

Some 30h once. Caffeine and calling in sick.

[Swish]

22ish hours, camping Ragefire... back when TMO used to have scouts checking in all the time but respected that someone was sat there waiting patiently with a crew on call.

[Solist]

65-70 hours straight.

The patch when epics were released. Helped block TMO from getting serverfirsts in about 5 epics cockblocking spawns while IB guys got on with their quests. Many lols at that time with people trying to find mobs in Lake Rathe to train.

Similar times while in poopsocks for Trak, locking down VP key mobs.

Actual online time straight, attentive, not able to AFK or microsleep etc, manastone this week. One 44 hour session, one 36 hour session. Relieved for 4 hours by a mate thankfully.

31 hours for Verix this year was brutal.

[Mirakk82]

Camped the Decrepit Hide for 22 hours once before it dropped on live so my friend could get his Innoruuk's Curse. Was only 2 people on the server who had it at the time.

[Sebekkha]

27 hours camping Stormfeather on Live, I purposely hooked my computer upto my tecnics sound system at near full volume anticipating falling asleep, needless to say I woke to the thunderous sound of Griffin wings flapping in the wind andnearly gave myself a heart attack, but I got my eyepatch of plunder...it was worth it at the time.....

[Keebz]

30 hour fbss camp on live circa 2000. Bagel bites and Arizona green tea were involved. I was 14. No hard drugs were necessary.

[the_only_jake]

13 days, tried for 2 weeks but fell asleep with meth pipe and lighter in hand lol. Sometimes there ain't a damn thing you can do about it :p

[Tecmos Deception]

Like 5-6 hours? I've never really stayed on P99 except plain old longer play sessions. No marathon camps even for Tecmos's Verina Tomb iirc.

You guys are insane.

[Purplefluffy]

Probably about 24 hours. And that was just because I was so hooked on playing. Not because I was doing some camp or anything.

Caffeine was all I needed for that.

Same and back in the day. Now? Too old for that kind of thing and a great many other (and better) things to do.

[curtischoy]

48. It was the first time live had an exp bonus and I never left rugs in pofire. No drugs, but toooons of booze.

[galahad1st]

55 hours getting Raster of Guk for my Monk epic on live.

Drugs used? A 13 year old's tenacity.

[Danth]

I stayed on P1999 for about 10 hours straight once back in 2009, but it sucked and I said to myself I'd never do it again. I haven't. That's my own personal worst on P99.

Danth

[DMN]

somewhere around 30-35 hours. We were trying to get the respawn timer on CT. or was it draco? i forget.

[Lulz Sect]

i haven't made it past a 16-18hr session since red era 2012-2013 without needing some sleep, was just caffeine

i may have pushed past the 18hr mark a few times during live circa 2001 summer
i do sort of recall passing out in a 24hr internet cafe at least once now that i think about it

that was just youthful ignorance, hadn't tried drugs yet

[ZiggyTheMuss]

Not very long on P99 ever, but on live when they first came out with fabled items I went after the FBSS and it took me 12 or 13 hours. I can’t imagine the lengths people are going to for the manastone here.

[silo32]

4-5 days straight no sleep trying to level my paladin... I kept nodding off around day 5 into straight dreams got freaky a few times I didn't know if I was awake or asleep

Then when I did sleep and crash I dreamed about playing the entire time. Shit burns into your mind.

none of the drugs used in this post during the time of incident were in any illegal class

all otc or legal by state

[Lone Gnome]

Stayed up on rallos ( LIVE ) when i got jboots camp with my friend till 6am

never again, we had to defend the island the entire time against mage pet spam, floating wizards, insane bards and god knows what else

i went to sleep with the ring in my bag

[Phaezed-Reality]

*reads thread title*
*reads posts*
*snortles*

nothing close to this erudite.

[Khorza]

I did something like 34 hours pushing to 50 on P99 Blue. It was 10 years ago so it wasn't really a big deal or anything, nowadays I can barely stay up past 10 PM.

[turbosilk]

Maybe 18 hours back when it was new.

[Wallicker]

Like 5-6 hours? I've never really stayed on P99 except plain old longer play sessions. No marathon camps even for Tecmos's Verina Tomb iirc.

You guys are insane.

Only 5-6 hours? I call bs coming from a guy who has averaged over 2 posts per day on the forums for over 7 years... you have binged this game atleast once like the rest of us.

[Tecmos Deception]

Only 5-6 hours? I call bs coming from a guy who has averaged over 2 posts per day on the forums for over 7 years... you have binged this game atleast once like the rest of us.

Not that I can recall man. I camped jboots on blue during classic and it took like 7-8 hours, but I definitely took a bunch of 20-minute cat naps on my office floor between spawns. And when I did VT, it took all night to find her near the end of her window, but iirc India was there the whole time and some other A-Team people came in and out helping keep an eye on her and had my # to text, so I didn't even stay up the whole time for that.

I really don't think I've ever played more than 5-6 hours in a sitting without sleep breaks. I may be online for 10 hours many days but it's playing for 10 minutes, afk 10 minutes, repeat. I rarely even play for 90 minutes sitting at the computer the whole time. Posts are probably 50/50 from my phone when I'm not even at home, let alone on p99 :)

[Zheta]

IDK if this is the longest, but spent about 12 hours at #1 on manastone list and no drop. Took screenshots of all(?) the "/list afk ####" prompts that seem to pop up once an hour or so. https://i.imgur.com/cWdRK6z.png

[Thulghor]

82 hours while on leave in the Marines, around Luclin, right before PoP. Mostly just caffeine, but probably also the pre-Ephedra-ban Hydroxycut too. Not nearly as much as my peers though. Some dumbasses were snorting that stuff. Back during the early Iraq/Afghanistan war era, everyone was amped on the stuff, like Rip Fuel and worse. We had a Gunny cardiac out and die during a PT run from too much of it.

On the blue server, I think around 32ish on a mega roll when me, Stoneeye, Oogthwack, and a few others (maybe Ereaon and Summanus as well?) all got together for a P1999 LAN party back in like, 2010 I think. Maybe 2015? I can't remember. I don't even remember how we managed to get that many IP exemptions for that weekend for so many EQ players here in one spot, but it was a awesome time.

On the green sever, 27 hours. Went from level 6 to 10 duoing with my buddy Riky. We dicked off a lot though. I've never been an efficient EQ player.

[cd288]

Probably 24 hours back on live. Never did anything like that on P99 though. Have no interest in spending that amount of time on an emulated server :P

[Quinas]

Yikes.

[getlostgreg]

13 days, tried for 2 weeks but fell asleep with meth pipe and lighter in hand lol. Sometimes there ain't a damn thing you can do about it :p

This sounds unbelievably absurd but for some reason I believe it.. lol.

Reminds me of this box army guy who did meth and farmed dragons on one of the TLP servers.

4-5 days straight no sleep trying to level my paladin... I kept nodding off around day 5 into straight dreams got freaky a few times I didn't know if I was awake or asleep

Lmao.

82 hours while on leave in the Marines, around Luclin, right before PoP. Mostly just caffeine, but probably also the pre-Ephedra-ban Hydroxycut too.

This is what I imagine when I think of the people who reach the level cap first.

[firesyde424]

31 hours and counting at the green manastone camp. I am way too old for this crap!

[Mirakk82]

Longer than Bexie. lol.

Inside joke, on the off chance she finds it somehow, some way. Bexie was a Barbarian Rogue I played with a lot on Ayonae Ro. She had a habit of falling asleep in deadly places. I once stayed up all night defending her in Sol B for hours as a Solo Paladin.

Another time, she fell asleep camping the Ancient Cyclops, and her and our Shadowknight friend Nastard stayed up clearing any trash that wandered near her for hours until she woke up. Good times.

[MelxDruid]

Without a doubt, Stormfeather camp back on fennin ro on my rogue. This was after Luclin, and possibly PoP had came out, so people weren't farming the page as much. It was probably a 20 hour day....had the volume way up and was up on the corner of the iceberg. Was alt tabbed out or reading and I heard those wings flapping....

This was back in high school mind you, so it was probably on a weekend or holiday.

[Fawqueue]

My longest was a 72 hour session camping Hadden for a Fishbone Earring. Definitely a case of continuing on because of what had already been invested. I finally passed out at the keyboard after 3 days. The worst part is I never got an earring..

[byzah]

My longest was a 72 hour session camping Hadden for a Fishbone Earring. Definitely a case of continuing on because of what had already been invested. I finally passed out at the keyboard after 3 days. The worst part is I never got an earring..

Took me 20 years to get that earring. I checked on the spawn every time I passed thru the Hills...then one day this Spring he was up (& not camped).

Longest session was in the first few weeks in 1999 - 27-28hrs. Spent all night looking for my ogre's corpse as he had an (amazing!) crude stein on him looted off a guard. Then my friends logged back on and I just carried on.

[enjchanter]

When I camped my VT , i had heard so many horror stories that i was determined to only do it once so stayed up for roughly 4 days straight

[Tenderizer]

31 hours and counting at the green manastone camp. I am way too old for this crap!

don't worry I hear p99 has a great Medicare pixel plan.

[kaluppo]

Maybe 18 hours. Tequila helped with this. After about 12 hours I get a little uncomfortable in the office chair so even if I am not tired per say, I still need to give my body a break from that damn chair.

I should play on a laptop but I have always played on a PC at a computer desk.

[toddfx]

Pretty weak sauce compared to most here, but back on live I spent most of my summer break playing EQ one year. I'd regularly stay up until like 2 AM, go get a few hours of sleep, and wake up before dawn to continue. Always snagged the best camps at 5 or 6 AM. I think I did that for a few weeks straight.

Good times. Kinda wish I could do that again.

[cd288]

Longer than Bexie. lol.

Inside joke, on the off chance she finds it somehow, some way. Bexie was a Barbarian Rogue I played with a lot on Ayonae Ro. She had a habit of falling asleep in deadly places. I once stayed up all night defending her in Sol B for hours as a Solo Paladin.

Another time, she fell asleep camping the Ancient Cyclops, and her and our Shadowknight friend Nastard stayed up clearing any trash that wandered near her for hours until she woke up. Good times.

This name sounds kind of familiar. I feel like I received a petition on A Ro from her once or twice seeing if someone might take pity on her and give her a rez lol

[Tethler]

I think my longest was around 35 hours on live during Velious grinding xp at upper dogs in Velks. My buddy owned a lan shop/cafe so I played for free and had free coffee and had friends playing with me off and on also in the lan shop.

On p99, my longest stretch is like 8 hours or so, with food and bathroom breaks of course.

[zaneosak]

Like 5-6 hours? I've never really stayed on P99 except plain old longer play sessions. No marathon camps even for Tecmos's Verina Tomb iirc.

You guys are insane.

I'd say most of these replies are not referring to p99 but the original game.