How long is your average KSP play session?

[ShadowZone]

once again the KSP bug hit me hard... when I looked at my watch it said 11:40pm ... "just one more test flight" ... suddenly it was 3:20am ...

Do you recognize this with your play sessions? How much time do you spend in one sitting of KSP?

[Frozen_Heart]

These days due to limited time its only around 20 mins per session.

I used to be able to go hours without a break!

[Sidereus]

I'd say 1-3 hours is fairly average. I tend to take a break when my game crashes...

I don't think I could get anything done in less than an hour or so, unless we're talking really early Career missions.

[Stargate525]

A side effect of my medications I'm on is that I have a hard time focusing on things for a long period of time. Ergo, my sessions are now typically either a single mission ship build, or the running of a mission craft I've already built.

[RainDreamer]

Varied. Sometimes I play until memory leaks were too much and the game gives up on me. Sometimes I got in to test some config I made then I left. It is just depending on my mood and schedules, I guess.

[Tweety]

I have fits and starts when playing KSP I am normally always wanting more than my '2 hour' computer time imposed on me by my wife to be. On Sunday's I will invariably be on for hours at a time with breaks only for coffee/food

Tweety

[T.A.P.O.R.]

Probably all day if its a weekend.

boot up, make coffee, build a ship, test it several times, go get breakfast, do some chores etc ..... Not turn off

[SunJumper]

Because ksp runs slowly, any mission can take hours. Large launches can take 20mins+ just to get to orbit. Getting to 10km tends to take ten minutes. My current mission is nearly at Jool , and its taken about two and a half hours so far.

[Superfluous J]

I usually play 1.5-3 hours at a time. 90 minutes or so of raw recording gets me a 20-30 minute episode, but there's a lot of cruft that I don't even bother recording.

When I'm not recording at all, it widely varies.

[eddiew]

Weekdays; 1 hour, if I'm lucky.

Weekends; my game generally memory leaks past ~3.2gb after 2 hours, so I give it a restart before it crashes and have a 10 minute break meantime. Then I go back for another 2 hours

[Falderappes]

Unfortunately only 1 to 2 hours. I would love to play this game a lot more.

[Renegrade]

once again the KSP bug hit me hard... when I looked at my watch it said 11:40pm ... "just one more test flight" ... suddenly it was 3:20am ...

Did that last night

How much time do you spend in one sitting of KSP?

I play as long as I can. Eventually my eyes lose the ability to track and bleed profusely, so there's a hard upper cap of about 16 hours nowadays. I hate gettin' old. (When I was a kid, I could easily play something for 48 hours. Heck one weekend in summer in those long ago days, myself and a bunch of friends hung out and did various things from Friday evening until Monday evening. Was just me and this other guy who'd stayed the course at the end, but we'd cleared a full 72 hours of gaming, horsing around, and such)

[Red Iron Crown]

Shorter than they once were, my kids have gotten older and more demanding of my attention since I started playing. Used to be I could spend 4+ hours in a single evening, now it's more like 1-2 hours at most. Even so I'll occasionally get into something interesting and stay up until an ungodly hour playing.

[Wabbit]

"just gonna finish this one mission" ---> "well, maybe this last station module" ---> "just gonna test the plane and make a few tweaks then go to bed"

Clock: 4:00 am

[r_rolo1]

While I don't spend so much time playing in big seats like i used to do in olden times, I normally still play 3h ... simply because I spend WAY too much time in the VAB/SPH and I'm also a fan of fine tuning stuff. So if I don't play 3h in a row I basically spend the time without launching a real mission

That said, that means I don't play every day, since I have to somehow schedule the time and the will to play a game in a 3-4h window ...

[Owen5595]

I can never go more than one hour sadly

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I usually play for about two or three crashes. After that I just get tired of reloading the game. On the weekends I might play for up to five or six crashes.

[Denks]

I tend to only be able to play for 30-40 before it crashes on me. I just get off when it crashes.

I would probably play for much longer if it didn't crash.

[delder92663]

Probably all day if its a weekend.

boot up, make coffee, build a ship, test it several times, go get breakfast, do some chores etc ..... Not turn off

Bingo!!!!

[eddiew]

Stock game really shouldn't be crashing on you, peeps... the only time it'll reliably happen is using a ton of mods and hitting the 3.5gb memory wall - and you can keep an eye on that in task manager and restart gracefully before it happens

[T.A.P.O.R.]

Shorter than they once were, my kids have gotten older and more demanding of my attention since I started playing. Used to be I could spend 4+ hours in a single evening, now it's more like 1-2 hours at most. Even so I'll occasionally get into something interesting and stay up until an ungodly hour playing.

Do they want to sit on your lap & fly an albatross into the ground like mine?

Actually, I can't leave my seat without a little someone hijacking the mission.

She's a pretty good flyer, but likes thinks to go boom!

[keeper]

Weekday "session" goes from 4 - 8 hours. The only thing stopping me is pure exhaustion or when game crashes i sometimes cba waiting for loading screen.

My days off "week ends" I eat, sleep, & poop space kerbals.

Sleep is for suckers.

[mindstalker]

Usually until I've completed "something". So much time spent on design and reverts that I often feel that if I stop now I've gotten nowhere.

[Uncle Mort]

20~30 mins until it crashes.

[PlonioFludrasco]

The last few days, the only thing that forced me to quit was crashing. (I mean the game, not my crafts!)

But next week the semester starts, and I will leave KSP for a while.