how do you guys manage making maps along with life? I mean I work about 50 hours a week, find family time for my son and girlfriend/wife(same girl), and gym time, so I really plan out my maps on down time( mostly when pooping) and when I feel I have something special that is when I actually start forging. I wish I had time to just mess around in forge to make cool props but I can't. Oh, also, I also like to actually play games from time to time. So how do you guys do it?
For Me I set up a day to day schedule for my forging experience to basically get a general idea of what I am doing. I don't follow it exactly but i plan it out on specific days i would like to forge in. Hope this helps- Goldarbiter42
Lol...I don't. I just don't have the time for it anymore. Granted I'm still in high school but the workload hasn't been kind to me so lately I haven't had much time to do anything. The only forging I have been able to do is continuously work on 1-2 maps that have been in progress for a long time already. I just think for your sake you need to set your priorities straight. You wouldn't be having these time constraints if you didn't think something else was more important than forging a map in a video game. So when that's in order...see where forging can fit into your life without causing trouble and taking away from your actual life away from Halo.
I have specific nights set aside where I can game, but I also stream it to my Surface and Forge where I can. I've got a new baby on the way, so time is going to evaporate in a month or so. I don't think I'll be forging for a while.
If you have limited game time, you've just gotta make sure you're going into forge with a mission. Know what you want to do and set a goal. If you go in not knowing what you want, you're gonna run around accomplishing nothing for 30+ minutes.
This may cause some envy, but since PC forge came about, I can forge while I work if the workload is slow, or my jobs are finished. Also Im a single, 30s bachelor, so no GF/wife/kids to absorb time from me.
Get really fast at doing everything else and try not to let it carry over into your forging. I work full time and am married with 3 kids. The weekends are when I get my maps blocked out and the hour or two I have before my family gets home I usually spend forging. I also wake up about a half hour early every weekday to do a little forging before work. I don't play nearly as much as I build which is why I'm notoriously bad at the game. My boys help me test my maps sometimes too so I can let it bleed into family time on some days. I'm addicted. It's sick, I know.
I have a family and a 8-4 job, so usually what that means is that I do all my real life stuff, sit down at my PC to forge my Star Trek themed map, do a few things, pass out and wake up with keys imprinted onto my forehead, and then go to bed. Rinse and repeat for a few months, and you have an almost finished map, that hopefully will one day be finished
I do it by having 1 year development cycles for every map. I'm still working on maps that I originally blocked out in 2015, lol. I've been working 70 hours/week for several months now. After family time, exercise, cooking, etc, there aren't many hours left in the day. I usually get one or two days every month where I can sit down for 4+ hours and forge. Aside from that, if I'm really hot to trot on something I just go short of sleep for a while so I can work on it.
I work 40 hours a week. Because why the hell work more than that? Me and my awesome wife have no desire to have kids. Brilliant. She goes to bed a few hours earlier than me so I can play some games or forge. So yeah, time is my friend.
Bro I was so lazy and I still graduated high school. I mean I wasn't trying to be valedictorian but high school for me was a cake walk --- Double Post Merged, Mar 23, 2017 --- I do kinda envy you. What do you do by the way? And is typical pay good? --- Double Post Merged, Mar 23, 2017 --- I have learned that I need my sleep. I seriously won't go to work if I don't get at least 7 hours of sleep
I work on a printing contract for the NCAA with 2 other full time employees. I manage a printer server on konica minolta bizhub presses for both internal and external printing requested by the NCAA. Im in the corner of a big warehouse and handle 90% of jobs through phone/email and a job manager. I set up jobs and automation, load it up and fire away. Then i wait for it to finish, fix jams, upkeep, and box things to get delivered. March madness is always a fun time While prints are ran, I just pass the time with whatever mostly. The pay is "low" but stable for living within my means as a introverted bachelor. I don't expect many of you would consider it alot of money, though the freedoms the job provides and low stress cannot be quantified.