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best game to play whilst at work?

KAIS_1KAIS_1 Member Posts: 40
in The Pub at MMORPG.COM

any recomendations on a good game to help pass the time whilst working?

browser based games or sumthing similar?

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  • skeaserskeaser Member RarePosts: 4,205

    How about actually working? Ya know, doing your job?

    Sig so that badges don't eat my posts.


  • KAIS_1KAIS_1 Member Posts: 40
    Originally posted by skeaser


    How about actually working? Ya know, doing your job?



     

    i mean for lunch breaks ...

  • reillanreillan Member UncommonPosts: 247

    Legends of Zork

  • littlemonkeylittlemonkey Member UncommonPosts: 61

    If it doesn't have to be an MMORPG you might enjoy Ikariam.

    littlemonkey

  • DraklonDraklon Member UncommonPosts: 218

    I googled "fun things to do at the office"

     

     

    • Page yourself over the intercom. (Don't disguise your voice.)
    • Find out where your boss shops and buy exactly the same outfits. Always wear them one day after your boss does. (This is especially effective if your boss is a different gender than you are. However it doesn't work if your boss copies you already.)
    • Make up nicknames for all your coworkers and refer to them only by these names. "That's a good point, Sparky." "No I'm sorry I'm going to have to disagree with you there, Chachi."
    • Send email to the rest of the company telling them what you're doing. For example "If anyone needs me, I'll be in the bathroom."
    • "Hi-lite" your shoes. Tell people that you haven't lost your shoes since you did this.
    • While sitting at your desk, soak your fingers in "Palmolive."
    • Put up mosquito netting around your cubicle.
    • Put a chair facing a printer, sit there all day and tell people you're waiting for your document.
    • Arrive at a meeting late, say you're sorry, but you didn't have time for lunch, and you're going to be nibbling during the meeting. During the meeting eat 5 entire raw potatoes.
    • Insist that your e-mail address be "xena_goddess_of_fire@companyname.com"
    • Every time someone asks you to do something, ask them if they want fries with that.
    • Send email to yourself engaging yourself in an intelligent debate about the direction of one of your company's products. Forward the mail to a co-worker and ask her to settle the disagreement.
    • Encourage your colleagues to join you in a little synchronized chair dancing.
    • Put your garbage can on your desk. Label it "IN."
    • Determine how many cups of coffee is "too many."
    • Develop an unnatural fear of staplers.
    • Decorate your office with pictures of Cindy Brady and Danny Partridge. Try to pass them off as your children.
    • For a relaxing break, get away from it all with a mask and snorkel in the fish tank. If no one notices, take out your snorkel and see how many you can catch in your mouth.
    • Send e-mail messages saying free pizza, free donuts etc... in the lunchroom, when people complain that there was none... Just lean back, pat your stomach, and say, "Oh you've got to be faster than that."
    • Put decaf in the coffeemaker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.
    • Name all your pens and insist that meetings can't begin until they're all present.
    • Come to work in your pajamas.
    • Compose all your e-mail in the form of a Haiku.
    • Every time someone asks you to do something, ask them to sign a waiver. Include a piece of your children's artwork as a cover page for all reports that you write. (If you don't have children, draw stick figures yourself.)
    • Schedule meetings for 4:14 pm.
    • Agree to organize the company Christmas party. Hold it at McDonald's Playland. Charge everyone $15 each.
    • Plant a hedge around your cubicle.
    • When in conversation, no matter where you are in the office, mutter, "I think my phone is ringing," and leave.
    • Organize a carpool. Then go to pick everyone up in a taxi.
    • Bring in dishes that you tried to cook but didn't turn out quite right as special treats for your co-workers.
    • While sitting at your desk, soak your fingers in "Palmolive".
    • Send out flyers to your entire department/division announcing a required staff development program. When everyone arrives, show them slides from your vacation.
    • Tell everyone that you are quitting. At your going away party, announce that you were just joking. Make sure to take their presents.
    • Send out a notice saying that you have a brain tumor. After everyone in your office sends flowers and presents, send out another note telling everyone that it was not a brain tumor but just a bad headache.
    • When answering your phone, talk in a fake British accent.
    • Take a picture of your boss and have it framed. Display it in a prominent location on your desk.
    • Whenever a fellow staff member sneezes, quickly yell "SHUT UP!" If they sneeze a second time, follow up with "I SAID SHUT UP!". A third time, leave the room crying while saying "NO ONE EVER LISTENS TO ME!".
    • In the summertime, get an inflatable swimming pool. Blow it up and fill it with water. Place it in the center of your office. During lunch time, put on your bathing suit and lounge in the pool. Anytime someone walks by, yell "HEY NO RUNNING AROUND THE POOL!"
    • Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 99 copies.
    • Reply to everything someone says with "that's what YOU think."
    • Practice making fax and modem noises.
    • Highlight irrelevant information in scientific papers and "cc:" them to your boss.
    • Disassemble your pen and "accidentally" flip the ink cartridge across the room.
    • Staple papers in the middle of the page.
    • Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a "croaking" noise.
    • TYPE ONLY IN UPPERCASE..
    • type only in lowercase.
    • dont use any punctuation either
    • While making presentations, occasionally bob your head like a parakeet.
    • Ask your co-workers mysterious questions and then scribble their answers in a notebook. Mutter something about "psychological profiles."
    • While sitting in your cube, yodel.
    • Hum songs that will remain lodged in co-workers brains, such as "Feliz Navidad", the Archies "Sugar" or the Mr. Rogers theme song.
    • Pretend your computers mouse is a CB radio, and talk to it.
  • XredemptionXXredemptionX Member Posts: 51

    Runescape, probably the best browser game on the market, and IMO, best mmorpg on the market (Its not jus combat...)

  • Fa+eFa+e Vanguard CorrespondentMember Posts: 190

    You better hope your boss doesn't see this post, lol :P

    Good question though.  I'm thinking either a browser game, or a very solo heavy game like AoC (if your work computer can handle it).

    But I think it's awesome that you can play at work.  Don't worry about the haters...you are lucky, go forth and get over on "The Man"!

    Currently Playing: Aion
    Trying Out:
    Retired: The Chronicles of Spellborn, EvE, LotRo, WoW, VG, AoC, CoX, RO
    Waiting on: Blade & Soul, Black Prophecy, Global Agenda, The Agency, SW:ToR, T.E.R.A.
    Working On: The 5th Dimension (coming soon)

  • XredemptionXXredemptionX Member Posts: 51
    Originally posted by Draklon


    I googled "fun things to do at the office"
     
     

    Page yourself over the intercom. (Don't disguise your voice.)
    Find out where your boss shops and buy exactly the same outfits. Always wear them one day after your boss does. (This is especially effective if your boss is a different gender than you are. However it doesn't work if your boss copies you already.)
    Make up nicknames for all your coworkers and refer to them only by these names. "That's a good point, Sparky." "No I'm sorry I'm going to have to disagree with you there, Chachi."
    Send email to the rest of the company telling them what you're doing. For example "If anyone needs me, I'll be in the bathroom."
    "Hi-lite" your shoes. Tell people that you haven't lost your shoes since you did this.
    While sitting at your desk, soak your fingers in "Palmolive."
    Put up mosquito netting around your cubicle.
    Put a chair facing a printer, sit there all day and tell people you're waiting for your document.
    Arrive at a meeting late, say you're sorry, but you didn't have time for lunch, and you're going to be nibbling during the meeting. During the meeting eat 5 entire raw potatoes.
    Insist that your e-mail address be "xena_goddess_of_fire@companyname.com"
    Every time someone asks you to do something, ask them if they want fries with that.
    Send email to yourself engaging yourself in an intelligent debate about the direction of one of your company's products. Forward the mail to a co-worker and ask her to settle the disagreement.
    Encourage your colleagues to join you in a little synchronized chair dancing.
    Put your garbage can on your desk. Label it "IN."
    Determine how many cups of coffee is "too many."
    Develop an unnatural fear of staplers.
    Decorate your office with pictures of Cindy Brady and Danny Partridge. Try to pass them off as your children.
    For a relaxing break, get away from it all with a mask and snorkel in the fish tank. If no one notices, take out your snorkel and see how many you can catch in your mouth.
    Send e-mail messages saying free pizza, free donuts etc... in the lunchroom, when people complain that there was none... Just lean back, pat your stomach, and say, "Oh you've got to be faster than that."
    Put decaf in the coffeemaker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.
    Name all your pens and insist that meetings can't begin until they're all present.
    Come to work in your pajamas.
    Compose all your e-mail in the form of a Haiku.
    Every time someone asks you to do something, ask them to sign a waiver. Include a piece of your children's artwork as a cover page for all reports that you write. (If you don't have children, draw stick figures yourself.)
    Schedule meetings for 4:14 pm.
    Agree to organize the company Christmas party. Hold it at McDonald's Playland. Charge everyone $15 each.
    Plant a hedge around your cubicle.
    When in conversation, no matter where you are in the office, mutter, "I think my phone is ringing," and leave.
    Organize a carpool. Then go to pick everyone up in a taxi.
    Bring in dishes that you tried to cook but didn't turn out quite right as special treats for your co-workers.
    While sitting at your desk, soak your fingers in "Palmolive".
    Send out flyers to your entire department/division announcing a required staff development program. When everyone arrives, show them slides from your vacation.
    Tell everyone that you are quitting. At your going away party, announce that you were just joking. Make sure to take their presents.
    Send out a notice saying that you have a brain tumor. After everyone in your office sends flowers and presents, send out another note telling everyone that it was not a brain tumor but just a bad headache.
    When answering your phone, talk in a fake British accent.
    Take a picture of your boss and have it framed. Display it in a prominent location on your desk.
    Whenever a fellow staff member sneezes, quickly yell "SHUT UP!" If they sneeze a second time, follow up with "I SAID SHUT UP!". A third time, leave the room crying while saying "NO ONE EVER LISTENS TO ME!".
    In the summertime, get an inflatable swimming pool. Blow it up and fill it with water. Place it in the center of your office. During lunch time, put on your bathing suit and lounge in the pool. Anytime someone walks by, yell "HEY NO RUNNING AROUND THE POOL!"
    Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 99 copies.
    Reply to everything someone says with "that's what YOU think."
    Practice making fax and modem noises.
    Highlight irrelevant information in scientific papers and "cc:" them to your boss.
    Disassemble your pen and "accidentally" flip the ink cartridge across the room.
    Staple papers in the middle of the page.
    Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a "croaking" noise.
    TYPE ONLY IN UPPERCASE..
    type only in lowercase.
    dont use any punctuation either
    While making presentations, occasionally bob your head like a parakeet.
    Ask your co-workers mysterious questions and then scribble their answers in a notebook. Mutter something about "psychological profiles."
    While sitting in your cube, yodel.
    Hum songs that will remain lodged in co-workers brains, such as "Feliz Navidad", the Archies "Sugar" or the Mr. Rogers theme song.
    Pretend your computers mouse is a CB radio, and talk to it.

    I dont meen to hate.. but nearly all those things are sad...

  • DraklonDraklon Member UncommonPosts: 218
    Originally posted by XredemptionX


    I dont meen to hate.. but nearly all those things are sad...



     

    Yes, now that i've properly read them they're kinda crap. I do apologise :(

  • XredemptionXXredemptionX Member Posts: 51
    Originally posted by Draklon

    Originally posted by XredemptionX


    I dont meen to hate.. but nearly all those things are sad...



     

    Yes, now that i've properly read them they're kinda crap. I do apologise :(

    Haha no atleast you were contributing :)

  • Unknown

    I remember the good old days when you used to be able to "play" a game at work.  I fondly remember system admins with their games next to them, never really playing, but always getting something accomplished.  Perhaps they were looking for a special item in the trade channel, or sitting next to their factory feeding components in every half hour.  It didn't affect their work in any way, it just provided a nice distraction on occasion.

     

    Nowadays they expect you to be at your keyboard and mouse controlling every little movement of your character and completing every aspect of ezmode crafting by hand.  Wanna collect some resources?  No, you can't automate the process, you have to pick every damn scattered flower yourself.

     

    Yeah, I miss the days when mmos were huge and massively time-consuming, and had activites that could be done while doing other things.  I guess on the bright side I can always mine in eve....

  • snowyjoesnowyjoe Member Posts: 36

    Not really a MMO but i like playing Audiosurf when i just want 5 to 10mins of relaxing.

    A nice little game that dosn't need a super computer to play and is pretty relaxing since you get to play you're own music on the computer or if you bring a external flash drive you can play it off there too.

    Really nice to play Metal Gear Soild 4 Sound Tracks on it :P

    Did i mention it was also very relaxing? :P Nice to get your mind off work at breaks somtimes.

    But what i mostly do is hang out with my work mates and eat lunch and talk with them. Somtimes even working over time during lunch breaks if i have to (but thats rare).

    I mean you can sit at your computer and play games at home when your alone, since you're at work, go have some fun that you can only experiance at a work office and maybe ask the boss for a raise!

  • LoloxxLoloxx Member Posts: 4

    well a really simple browser based game is my brute!

    Its fun and simple

    you can join

    http://genion.mybrute.com

    and you will be my pupil (helps me get exp and does not affect you)

    or if you dont wanna help me out you can join also at

    http://mybrute.com

    have fun

    Fight my brute!
    http://genion.mybrute.com

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