How Do You Do The Long Boring Necessary Tasks?

[Xemos 9]

As the title says, How is it you do the mind numbing tasks needed to build/maintain your village/business?

This is how I cut stone

[Maozorz 127]

Chat to whoever in game, text friends, listen to music, watch TV, eat food, line up 3 actions in a row then bang out some press-ups/sit-ups, repeat.

lol

[shadowblasta 142]

i chat in GL and freedom, watch big bang theory, listen to music, look at the timer, and say random conversation starters when im bored

[Zekezor 3,188]

(prenote: old screenshoots below)

In one out of 2 ways:

1) do something else while wurming.... aka movie/serie/chat

2) get very busy by using alts to keep your attention focused on the game

iow:

ps.

wurm assistant is amazing for mindnumbing grinding. (and you really should try it if you havnt)

Edited January 16, 2013 by Zekezor

[AnarchistRise 320]

That is too many alts

[Zekezor 3,188]

That is too many alts

it's not just my characters

[Aetherwalker 1,863]

Clearly, you are your own village

[Jacklez 14]

Dual monitors saves lives.

[Hordern 2,177]

Dual monitors saves lives.

This ^

Otherwise multiclienting does wonders There's also of course dashing around as a GM to keep me occupied (many an hour of SB has been wasted on my main as I get stuck in to a /support call >.< ), and if there's no case to follow up on, there's always terrorizing unsuspecting players. Gnomes were great for this when they sang... /me gets lost in nostalgia

[Mornare 16]

I'm usually on skype with the other villagers, checking 9gag for new posts and hanging around on facebook. My iPad comes in handy while playing Wurm

[Zenarus 5]

Dual monitors saves lives.

Agree, I got two monitors, usually watching a let's play video of a retrogame (icewind dale atm ) and wurm on my main screen. Even got a laptop now so I can keep playing while away (like next week when I have to be at uni for an entire week). Looking forward to when I can queue more than three tasks (always go: "crap my ava is idle, damn prob lost 30 seconds of work time")

[Farmerbob 369]

Umm, I play fullscreen, and listen to Pandora, occasionally alt tab and futz around in the forums for a bit, but 95% of the time when I'm in Wurm, I'm 100% in Wurm.

This is one reason why I have lots and lots of middle-range skills and few high end skills, because I rarely stick with any one thing for a long time. I did get 70 fighting and 50 chainsmithing today though

Tomorrow is wall repair and additional wall building day.

[Argurios 8]

Gambling habit

[Elen 1,013]

Streaming movies. Queue 5 bricks, lean back, sip martini.

Edited January 16, 2013 by Elen

[Trencal 75]

Best tool ever.

[guitarxe 50]

What do you guys do with your alts?

[Elen 1,013]

Don't use em personally.

[Hordern 2,177]

What do you guys do with your alts?

Waiting for the day they can sit on chairs so I can have tea parties

[Stargrace 603]

Dual monitors saves lives.

^

I normally have main / priest on doing their thing, on one monitor, and the 2nd has netflix / chrome / twitter / IM / etc running on it.

[Evilvision 301]

I watch my action bar and skill tab. Its like a wonderfull mystery with each action, What will I get this time. Any form of distraction is for the weak!!!!

[Sklo:D 2,210]

this is my way

Edited January 16, 2013 by Sklo:D

[guitarxe 50]

what's on that website that interests you?

[Dragonmob 18]

When I grind, I do not watch or play anything else than Wurm. It's silly to play two games at the same time.

I do listen to music however, that helps a bit when you are grinding for many hours in a row.

I once, when started Wurm, did mortar 8-12 hours a day without music or other things. The mortar making was so fun itself.

[Evitagen 6]

I listen to books on tape, right now its 'Game of Thrones' book 3

Dragonmob, this is scary, "The mortar making was so fun"

[Sklo:D 2,210]

what's on that website that interests you?

My friends ^^

But I guess the difference of our age will make it for the most people impossible to understand how facebook can be fun.

Edited January 17, 2013 by Sklo:D