IRE Asks: Are You a Multigamer?

Everyone has heard of multiplaying, which is considered illegal in Iron Realms games. But what about multigaming? Defined as the fine art of playing two or more games simultaneously, it can be especially common among text gamers. It's nothing to be ashamed of - as long as you're not autobashing! We love our text games dearly, and you might miss sudden the sudden excitement of a world event (as Iron Realms is known for) if you log out. So playing a few rounds of Capture-the-Flag or even doing a raid in your favourite MMORPG is a good way to pass the time. Heck, some people even watch Netflix, play an MMORPG and do telecom work from home, all while logged into an Iron Realms MUD.

So are you a multigamer? Whether it's simply alt-tabbing between Facebook games and your MUD client, or an elaborate dual-monitor setup with all the windows neatly resized, tell us how you multigame. Comment below!

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Comments

Khashan of Achaea

separate screens FTW.

Azor of Achaea

sometimes Tetris

Perceides of Achaea

I've tried it, but I don't

I've tried it, but I don't like it. It's hard to immerse myself when I'm focusing on two different fictional worlds.

That said, there are times when I've been really bored in Achaea and, instead of logging off, I've played Recettear or something.

Singhe of Achaea

Yes, very much so.

Bam?

Vasilisa of Aetolia

Most definitely am!

Creu of Achaea

same. I've even played Achaea

same. I've even played Achaea and RL at the same time, both great games.

Canis of Imperian

Taming in Imperian allows me

Taming in Imperian allows me to relax a bit, from time to time.

Vion of Achaea

Hmm

I got achaea plugged up to like everything irc, rssfeeds, various system scripts. I usually voice chat on mumble about other games, with browser open to another game in background, ocassionally peaking over at someone else playing xbox in the room, while I am actively playing Achaea trying to bash while kiting thieves and getting jumped by assassins. Oh and my stupid dog pouncing at me every 20 seconds and running off. I saved my gold pouch in game from the thieves, but that darn dog got my jerky and some noob beat my hiscore on xbox! g2g clan raid on other mmo in 5min.

Dvurkha of Lusternia

multigaming is beyond me

I can usually handle some minor distraction, like music or tv, in the background.

Esgar of Achaea

I can handle eating pizza and

I can handle eating pizza and doing non-combat things on achaea.

Fujita of Achaea

Nope

Iasmos of Lusternia

Always

I often do six things at once, before breakfast at Milliways.

Nim of Achaea

But are they impossible

But are they impossible things? Otherwise, I can't believe it. :/

Vasilisa of Aetolia

Definitely a multigamer!

Nellaundra of Achaea

If I'm not in a PvP match,

If I'm not in a PvP match, yeah. I tend to roleplay two or more characters at once on varying games ^_^

Dys of Lusternia

I stick with having three or

I stick with having three or four conversations at once. That's plenty to do.

Salik of Achaea

I normally sit and play

I normally sit and play achaea and some other browser based games while watching my TV, then I go out and make the stables and ride some horses, while I train some horses I sometimes log on by my phone.

Hallis of Achaea

Windowed Witcher 2 and

Windowed Witcher 2 and Achaea? Has happened.

Karai of Achaea

Not anything intensive, like

Not anything intensive, like I won't play MW but I have forums I visit a lot, not Achaea's. So mostly movies or working on sites.

Xyran of Achaea

no way

Grudar of Midkemia

I'm not a multi-gamer

However, on a rare occassion I will fish in MKO and Fish in Minecraft while watching TV.

Nerezza of Aetolia

I think this says something

I think this says something about the implementation of fishing in games, haha. Then again I'd get bored and distracted irl pretty quick too sitting there waiting.

Hawke of Midkemia

I log into multiple ire's at

I log into multiple ire's at the same time does that count?

Tillie of Achaea

No way. Not that skilled at

No way. Not that skilled at multi-tasking. It also drives me insane when my apartmentmate is playing Skyrim on the living room T.V and watching Smallville on his laptop at the same time: mostly because he's hogging the T.V while not really playing. I don't get it.

Portius of Lusternia

Only have other things open

Only have other things open when I need to recover willpower or something like that.

Calixa of Lusternia

Does listening to audio books

Does listening to audio books while gaming count as multitasking? I've found it to be a good way to get through repetitive boring grinds.

Grylls of Aetolia

i'd imagine it'd be pretty

i'd imagine it'd be pretty hard to follow what you're listening to, however.

Harley of Achaea

Yup

Guilty of this!

Rhynera of Midkemia

Same

Wistrai of Aetolia

eh

I've done like a little Achaea/Aetolia + FB games, but I can't pay attention to more than one real time game, honestly.

Xylon of Lusternia

yes

though generally it's Lusty and Minesweeper or comics

Vorbis of Achaea

Nah

One thing at a time please

Arador of Achaea

Depends on the game

But being afk in Achaea can be dangerous

Nadiel of Achaea

I don't play other games. <_<

I don't play other games. <_< But! Netflix/Hulu while bashing can be a Godsend.

Iasmos of Lusternia

Multi-coder

Developing my combat system in MUSHclient while also building my own client in Qt...

Karai of Achaea

Guess you could have sound

Guess you could have sound alerts to help not be so dangerous when multiplaying but yeh. I have a kindle fire and a touch I got from working at amazon. They can be good while waiting for something to happen especially with audible. Not really multigaming but i do read and listen to music, watch a video..

Vasilisa of Aetolia

Yes, definitely a

Yes, definitely a multi-gamer.

Hataru of Achaea

Definitely played D3 or WoW

Definitely played D3 or WoW and Achaea at the same time. When Lusternia first came out I'd always be on Lusty and Achaea at the same time as well. Without the old AFK rules its definitely a lot easier to multi-game now then it was when I was in high school and first played Hataru.

Shinji of Aetolia

It's too hard. I just end

It's too hard. I just end wasting time.

Loren of Midkemia

It's similar for me, but it

It's similar for me, but it depends upon what I am doing.

Berethane of Lusternia

Sort of

I play a couple games at once sometimes. It usually makes me suck at both though...

Tarkanian of Achaea

a bit no, lately

Cahin of Achaea

What? No

Tyehr of Achaea

No.

Vasilisa of Aetolia

credit

Acrolo of Achaea

No

I can't imagine being able to do much while having to pay attention to Achaea... I do however watch alot of series and movies while I hunt... totally possible!

Antidas of Achaea

im definitely guilty of this.

im definitely guilty of this. I'll frequently have my xbox on while I play Achaea, and switch between the two.

Lykaon of Achaea

nope...way too complicated

nope...way too complicated for me!

Vaneils of Imperian

babies and mudding don't mix

babies and mudding don't mix :-(

Ceiasu of Imperian

.

I normally just search the web and chat with people whenever I need a break from the grind. Helps kill a lot of time.

Katzchen of Achaea

Not really

More likely to read forums if things are quiet instead.

Sayuri of Achaea

Still very much yes.

Rugnar of Achaea

Lol and Achaea, sometimes.

Lol and Achaea, sometimes. Not doing anything active ic, if that's the case, though

Shevonne of Achaea

I tried, but I cant do it

I'm not good enough at multitasking to do more than one - so I don't.

Shinji of Aetolia

credit!

Genomin of Midkemia

Yes. Nigh constantly.

Arador of Achaea

Not a good idea...

When going for dragon...

Cahin of Achaea

Second pick still makes me

Second pick still makes me lol.

Juliana of Achaea

I multitask??

Ilena of Achaea

Multigamer? Nah, not really.

Multigamer? Nah, not really. Occasionally. Multitasker? Definitely. Achaea, dinner, and netflix, all going at once. ooh yeeeeeah

Shanley of Imperian

I'm not sure..

it's hard to put the attention to different things, so it's more like constant AFKing

Acrolo of Achaea

Nope

I think it would be rather difficult to handle more than achaea, but I do watch series and movies while I hunt...

Numi of Achaea

Actually, I might want to do

Actually, I might want to do this

Aislygn of Imperian

Multigaming?

Less frequently than multitasking, but I can certainly say that a TV show is almost always going (That, or a movie or an audio book, some kind of story) and then there's Mahjong or Sims, the Facebook, and downloading somethign new to watch. I think it comes from the days I know I have a limited amount of time I can be sitting down and stationary, so I have a lot I want to accomplish on multiple platforms.

Maht of Achaea

Mutligaming

Yeah - I play every game I get my hands on.

Acrolo of Achaea

Nope

just imagine trying to play LoL and achaea simultaneously... impossible... but having two screens makes watching movies and playing Achaea easy and awesome!

Wyverex of Achaea

no

Aoklin of Achaea

Sort of..

I will multi game sometimes. But it is rare, I mean most games require your full attention... so I'm not sure how effective it would be. I will occassionally play Guild Wars 2 and Achaea, but it's rare. If anything I'm usually doing some other tasks like reading up on the HTML5 client, doing some other programming, email, etc. I do almost always have the tv on though...

Pollus of Achaea