it is still an achievment to have 300 or so friends that play M&B right?
No, it's pretty standard to be friends with a lot of people in NW so you can organize events and communicate with other regiments and stuff. It's far more common to have 150-300 friends who play NW than it is in almost any other gaming community, besides TF2 possibly, but that's a whole other story.
Anyway, I have 750 or so hours, but I stopped playing NW full time several months ago. If I kept playing at the same rate that I was about 8 months ago, I'd have around 3,000 hours.