retired_hulther1

This is my problem! I came back to 6 form this year and got three A*. Then FM came out and it started slipping...B..D.. and now I havent handed in my last three!!!!

retired_redhotxpress

well, I did manage 2 degrees while playing CM/FM extensively... so it is possible... just don't ask how long it took me

Regarding the set times for stopping, I am more than just familiar with that. I did a postgraduate and you 'd think aged 30 I would be mature enough to know better... I decided to have a morning game from 8 to 9 every day... some days I ended up playing until midnight without getting any work done. Still managed to get a distinction for some strange reason, but I could have done much better overall and for myself.

At least that last experience proved that I can still pull it off despite my massive addiction

I think the real low will be hit if I manage to get fired from work because of FM... less for showing up late or tired cuz of homeplay, but because of actually playing at work. That's why I had to force myself to keep the cds at home.

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but of course the vicious cycle would not be a cycle if it ended up there... now that I play at home more, maybe the next thing is a divorce?

I remember a few years back someone from the US I think wrote a long essay about how his life went massively downhill through playing too much... scary, but on the other hand entertaining as well

But I can only quote a recent famous youtube song: "I will survive"

retired_annie0911

oh my masters...

retired_anise94

Well...i played fm throughout my uni life plus a part-time job and i still came out with a 2:1...the funny thing is my friends who concentrated and had no distractions came out with 2:2.....FM opens the mind, gets you frustrated enough to pick that book up and crack that Maths equation. FM = Mathematics

retired_pamjoseph

Not only fm. In fact, other games ruined more (although I have a degree in computer engineering, and I assure you that not was easy :p). Specially ADOM (ancient domains of mystery), but also one nil, heroes of might and magic, master of magic... lots XDDD

retired_11xgirl

Don't worry you have the full rest of your life to regret it.

burntmonkey

I don't see many tips on how we can help this poor dude struggle out of FM besides for breaking the disc and the old stories been dug out for memory sake!

To the poster, what you should do is try to play a different game, a game where it is more repetitive e.g. Counter-Strike or Pro-Evolution Soccer. Once you get hooked on to the game you'll take your mind of FM. Then you'll ask, "there's no difference between playing FM and this other game. Well there is, because after a while you'll get bored out of your life with this repetitive game and you'll eventually stop. This is what I did when my semester started and slowly FM07 died out of my life for 4 months. I have to admit that it got me hooked because for the first week of my semester I couldn't stop playing the game, and when I couldn't play the game I was thinking about how I was going to manage.

retired_jmv91

I remember studying for my exams while playing FM. It was the only way I could study, because if I didn't play it all I could thing of while studying was my progress in the game. But it worked well for me.

retired_JCH

It's actually ruining my career, I've got so much to do at he minute but being self employed I have the option of putting it off and playing fm for 7+ hours a day.

I really think this game can be almost as destructive to lives as some of the worlds more talked about addictions. Yes it’s great fun but I’m really scared I will wake up soon and be 30 and have achieved none of my goals all because of this addiction.

retired_sknoll

My Advise to you SiDolman is.. that you give it to a friend or summat, so they keep it away from you. And you tell them not to give it to you until your exams are over with. So that no matter what you say to them in that period of time the answer is no. Then you have no option to get ur proverbial behind into gear, kick it in ur exams, and then crack open FM when its over with!! :thup: I know thats what i should have done