Impact of RL to Gaming

Submitted by mow Q [EN] on 17. January 2011 - 12:21

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I just was wondering about myself.

I was wondering, why the hell I make such good games on Sundays and just average games from Monday till Saturday.

On Sundays I can stand the pace with the good ones, ofc I am the opinion they are much better than me, but nevertheless. Under the week I have just an average performance.

So I was thinking how it can be to make on Sundays 30, 40 and 50 frags with skilled enemies and otherwise just around 15-20 no matter if enemies are skilled or not. Fact is, Sundays are the only days on which I really sleep until I wake up by myself, which leads to that I am able to play intuitive, I don’t need to look at crosshair and if it is on enemy, I simply do it. Under the week I just sleep around 5-6 hours/night and really don’t hit much if I don’t concentrate on crosshair a lot.

I found out, I need at least 8-9 hours’ sleep to bring up proper performances.

Concerning this I also found out, it really helps me if I take for example dextrose or a red bull, when I did no sleep much, but the effect stops pretty fast again.

While I observed my gaming-experience the last year I also noticed, if I have problems in real life, e. G. a hell of work (deputize for somebody, or mainsaison), or if I have problems with my GF or whatever, I can have sleep as much as I want, the worries put my down and I suck at gaming.

For now I don’t mind it so much, since I stopped all team and clan-gaming, and skill became just semi-important for me, but in past, if I knew I have a difficult war to play, I really gone to bed earlier and tried to fix smaller RL-problems just to have a chance for a good performance.

How does RL effect your gaming-performance, do/did you prepare for wars in any special way?

17. January 2011 - 12:32
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my reallife is @ the moment perfect Tongue i am not working till 01.04.2011 xD

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17. January 2011 - 12:53
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Me struck that I am at the weekend much better than weekdays.
That is not because I can sleep longer. No! I am much more calmly and much more concentrated! It is general much more calmly @ home.

There is not anything better if after the first 2 coffee`s plays
a round in the morning ! Happy
At the evening the grape sugar or evening coffee helps me a lot.
But how you already say the effect decreases just as quickly
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17. January 2011 - 13:01
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Sleep and real life issues mean a lot in my gaming too. When there is an important war coming up, I try to get normal sleep that day(usually I sleep around 3-4 hours a day), and not to think of anything real life related, because if I can catch myself thinking about something during the game, it usually ends up me being last on the scoresheet. Also, after midnight seems best time for me to play, as I seem to be least worried about other things that would normally bother me. Despite that, I have one in-game disadvantage in the clan wars, which is unfortunately stress, I still get it from time to time and I fail to do well because of it. I tried to eliminate it by playing many rank 1on1's, and there it is almost gone, but I still fail miserably on other gametypes.

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17. January 2011 - 13:07
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it's psycological moment. Happy
all have same situatuion.

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17. January 2011 - 13:27
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Sleep and real life things such problems, workd, stress, means a lot in my gaming...
for example dont know if many of u heared, but in Spain, from 15:00 till 17:00 we have ''siesta'' this means sleeping time.....all middle shops, etc close at 15:00 and open at 17:00, because people is sleeping...at the begining when i come here...was like why the hell the all sleep?....then i get used to it...and passed 1 - 2 months and I started to fall a sleep too! Confused

for example, if I have some important cw i try to sleep from 15:00 till 17:00 to have better performances and ofc going early to bed at night...because if not...i just dont pay atention were is my crosshair....because i just dont see it Confused or i do stupid mystakes i game...get a bit nervous of that and then all the game goes down....
but also true is...that if u sleep more than u need..its also worst, and u feel like ''tired'' whole day.

ofc the moral and energy is very important for a good game imo.


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17. January 2011 - 13:59
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I find I'm worse in the morning, I'm much better once Ive just eaten Omnomno Tongue. I'm not finding sleep does that much for my skill. however when i do play well i cant keep it going for long amounts of time (only about 3-4 games worth then i transform into noob Big grin ).

But yea its food which is what keep my performance up.

For example last night the quick supernoodle snack (omnom) gave me a few games of yay everyones dieing and I'm not Tongue.

I also play well when im angry. *,..,*


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17. January 2011 - 14:01
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When smo is pissing me off i usually get worse Happy

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17. January 2011 - 14:30
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i found out that doing better in school and doing homework,preparing seriously for exams improves my performance ingame. Surprise

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17. January 2011 - 14:39
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because ur head is free than i guess.

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17. January 2011 - 14:48
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i found out that doing better in school and doing homework,preparing seriously for exams improves my performance ingame.

Quite the opposite for me Big grin .
I never really thought about real-life factors affecting performance - just pick up and play Tongue . Though I do find myself playing better after a warm glass of milk or a light snack.

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