300 Ways To Tell If Your Addicted To SE IV (Updated)

[Atrocities]

101 Ways To Tell If Your Addicted To SE IV
By: Members of Shrapnels SE IV Forum

1. You bought your first computer just for this game. (Thanks PC Gamer Magazine)
2. SEIV is the only game on your Hard Drive
3. You quit your job so you could dedicate more time to playing SEIV
4. The only email account on your computer is for PBW
5. You have warn out a mouse every month by just clicking
6. When you close your eyes, all you see is a blue grid
7. You stay up all night just too play "one more turn"
8. You changed your name to include Lord of the Known Universe
9. When your not playing SEIV, your posting at Shrapnel
10. When you’re not posting at Shrapnel, you’re playing SEIV.
11. You get goose pimples in case of strange noises from your SE4 Hard Drive.
12. Trembling from head to foot if the Hard Drive has died.
13. You bite the postman's leg, every day he does not deliver SE 4 Gold.
14. You cannot open a door without a minesweeper.
15. You see your car's fuel gauge and think: solar panels times stars divided by 10 times number of engines...
16. You put notes on your neighbors' front doors, informing them that ancient treaties stipulate that their houses belong to you.
17. You sit in traffic wishing you had a wave motion gun, or at least a repulser beam.
18. Your neighbor tells you he just bought a new car and you ask if it has a cloaking device
19. While sitting at your computer and your wife comes up and says, "let’s go to bed early" with a twinkle in her eye and you reply " how about a trade agreement"
20. If you need to start a conversation you say, "Mineral planet are the best."
21. You wake up from a nightmare screaming "The EEE are coming! The EEE are coming!"
22. You look out for a wife with enhanced reproduction characteristics, non-existent political savvy and low maintenance costs.
23. You see your mother-in-law with a car breakdown and think: ... no, my repair aptitude is pathetic.
24. You see a blonde sex bomb with a car breakdown and all of a sudden your repair aptitude changes to impressive.
25. You flush the toilet, go 3 steps forward, 2 steps back.
26. You threaten to Planetary Napalm your neighbors car, then go "ah, damn. My troops are on the planet- can't do that."
27. When your car runs out of gas, you're pissed that it won't move.
28. You're proud of your car's supply storage- it gets 280 sectors a tank!
29. You post at least once a day to this forum
30. You have started at least one thread here
31. You think the reason your car engine died is because someone hit it with an Ionic Dispersor.
32. You believe police cars have Tachyon Sensors.
33. When people you don't like come over you demand they remove all presence from system.
34. You woke up once wondering if you had enough minerals to buy a new car.
35. You accuse rich people of having a mega-evil empire and wonder why no one has declared war on them.
36. You have an SEIV Tattoo (that would be really funny if I didn't actually have one, [it would be even funnier if I knew where I got it)
37. You are SUDDENLY awaken by doorbell expecting, AARON to hand you your game.
38. You look at the night sky looking at the Big Dipper, and say I can Mode that.
39. You had a nightmare, and woke up as the PHONG.
40. When your population says its TO HOT? USE A SUNBUSTER?
41. When you are chased by the cops?, use your pearl jam clocking device?
42. When you are being bitten by misquotes use your Johnson wax DEEP WOODS OFF ECM X.
43. When a population ask you for money, DECLARE WAR on him at once.
44. You are woken up in the middle of night and see a figure of an SLEESTAK NAMED JRAENAR.
45. I go to the grocery store shopping for asparagus, and I see AMONKRIE looking at me?
46. You find yourself flicking through a mail order catalogue looking for an urban pacifier to deal with the kids next door
47. You are amazed that the policeman doesn't buy your 'but I have a solar sail' explanation for speeding
48. You find yourself in the economy section of the plane wishing Delta would install more cargo holds
49. You fear jewelry because you haven't researched shields yet.
50. You yell out "The Ukra-Tal are invading!" during thunderstorms.
51. You try to adjust your TV set because the monoliths in "2001: A SPACE ODDESEY" are off-color.
52. You get mad when you find out that your local newspaper doesn't have a SE4 section.
53. You took an advanced accounting course to help manage minerals, radioactive, and organics.
54. You think that you can only make 1 call to a person per turn.
55. You think the USA is a neutral empire.
56. You believe that Null-Space weaponry is the solution to all your problems.
57. You measure everything in KiloTons.
58. You hit a fog bank on your way home and you try to launch a recon satellite from your car trunk.
59. You count Battlecruiser instead of sheep to fall asleep.
60. When people talk about building expensive Missile Defense systems, you wonder why they don't just use a few Point Defense Cannons.
61. You shave your hamster in a way that it looks like a Vaxin.
62. You keep playing the game for 100 years after winning, just so you can make a sphere world.
63. You post so frequently that your numbers overlap with someone else’s
64. You can carry on a discussion for a day and a half in the forum about who posted which number in which order. (Sorry guys, I couldn't resist)
65. You post ways that you can tell you're addicted to SEIV.
66. You have this forum marked as your HOME PAGE.
67. You check on the latest status of SE IV Gold about 8 times a day
68. When you find yourself telling people that 'their cities shall burn in your vengeful fire' rather than asking them politely to move out of the way
69. When you sit at your desk wishing you had a cloaking device or stealth armor
70. When you pick a tie to wear in the morning on the basis that it looks like the Ukra Tel flag (I did, this morning)
71. Before you enter the office of your boss, you choose your strategies: primary - point blank, secondary - ram
72. When people avoid you at parties because they know you're just going to go on and on about your sphereworld construction plans and monolith conVersion programmer.
73. When you consider posting to the forum to ask if anyone is willing to write a bit of software and set up a server that will eliminate number conflicts in the "You know you're addicted" list by automatically allocating unused numbers to new entries...
74. You're sitting in the office trying to dream up SEIV lyrics to Puretone's addicted to bass
75. You have convinced one of your dates to post to your own thread, (Gryphin Growltigga).
76. You have barricaded yourself in your computer room, and have been playing SEIV now for 15 days strait without any sleep.
77. You realize on day 16 that despite your best efforts, you’re still not finished with the game.
78. You establish a military alliance with your family knowing that they will never honor the agreement.
79. You have considered glassing your wife’s homeworld.
80. You make active plans to invade the living room.
81. After months of playing SEIV on PBW, you go through withdrawal symptoms while waiting for your new game to start.
82. You have never truly finished a game of SEIV.
83. You now view time in increments of 10.
84. Your dates have been told from the get go that SEIV is as important as they are and when Gold comes out you will be unavailable for a week or more. (I don't know if you think this if funny, but it is true).
85. Begin to look for ways to upgrade your coworkers AI.
86. Find your self-wondering what Mods you would make on your girl/boy friend, wife/husband if you had the chance.
87. You search for the "Complete AI off" button on your wife/husband.
88. You try to MOD Windows in hopes that you will improve it.
90. When you have been not getting contacts from Malfador, Shrapnel, or anybody else that you think is important for long periods...
You believe that their warp gates have been cut off by stellar tech.
- OR - You keep mindlessly researching stellar manipulation so that you can get in touch with them again. - OR - You go use the master password to get into their heads to make them contact you.
91. You give 1000 pebbles to people you meet for the first time, and expect them to like you more.
92. You email AARON everyday to send him UNLIMITED suggestions when you don’t even have se4 gold?..
93. At night going to sleep, you close your eyes only to see flickers of stars, with a smile on your face.
94. You go to a tattoo parlor and have your WHOLE BODY painted with the UNIVERSE of planets.
95. You see that man in news that dress like lizard or alligator or something? and you say to yourself, I can race mode THAT.
96. You woke up this morning & having a bad day with bills, taxes etc, and suddenly, you say to yourself, OH MY GOD IM ON THE WRONG HOMEWORLD?
97. After re-lousing you rename your dog to "something bug fix v1.49"
98. After a quarrel with your wife, you dream of a "replay combat button" to see what went wrong.
99. You open warp points from your PC chair to the refrigerator and another one to the restroom, to save time.
100. #99 would be obsolete if #3 has been done, because everything would be within the same sector/room.
101. When the divorce papers are served you respond with:
a. Uh, yeah, just put them on the printer.
b. Can't you see I'm *^&%$(@# busy?
c. Launch a colony ship to the nearest breathable atmosphere.
d. Just sit there with the usual glazed look.
e. Start building those Intel centers you've been putting off.

[ May 24, 2004, 06:14: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[pathfinder]

LOL: 82, 96 http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[sachmo]

I have begun thinking about the game while I brush my teeth in the morning...so I guess I would say yes, I am addicted. Everyone needs a vice, right? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[CW]

Worse still, rule 102: You are replying to this thread when there is a 3rd year engineering exam tomorrow that you don't know a sh*t about! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Atrocities]

103 You wish you had installed the Drone Laucher in your car.
104 Even after nearly 2 years, your still actively playing this game.

[Gandalph]

105 Even after 8 months of no work, you're late to an interview because you had to make that Last change to your new race style and, of course, it had to be tested.

[henk brouwer]

106: Your bathroom has become useless because of an organic infestation.

[CNCRaymond]

107. You arrive at interview just to find the interviewer playing SEIV. You offer advice and get the job.

[ June 19, 2002, 18:42: Message edited by: CNCRaymond ]

[mottlee]

#7 Been there way too much!

[Richard]

Originally posted by CNCRaymond:
107. You arrive at interview just to find the interviewer playing SEIV. You offer advice and get the job.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That's not true is it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Marvin Kosh]

108. You watch B5 'In The Beginning' and wonder if you can use Sheridan's tactic to smoke that cruiser that's been killing all your ships.

[Atrocities]

109 You know your addicted the moment you relize that because you stayed awake all night long playing SEIV while eating General Chao Hot & Spice Chicken, and drinking diet coke, you missed your PBW turn and the AI surrendered to the BORG.

[Taera]

Eh damn, maybe put it as sticky? man i loved that 101 ways, yes it was great! i'll give you a week to fill the list and then i'll print it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

#7 is a common occurence. I remember having it too when i played SE all the day and all the night (i dont now)

107. You arrive at interview just to find the interviewer playing SEIV. You offer advice and get the job <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">CNCRaymond, is it realy true?

[Quikngruvn]

While we're dredging up old threads....

110. You write SEIV Haiku (http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=23;t=002876;p=1). (That's a link in case you can't see it.)

Quikngruvn

[Jmenschenfresser]

201: Including at the end of your dinner prayer "...and let Malfador change the hard code to allow for my new mod. You know which one, God."

202: Have sent a new idea for a universal field theory to Stephen Hawking stating that the universe is composed of countless data files...tappable by some cosmic wordpad.

[Gandalph]

111 You have the game installed on your game system at home, your work system at work, and your laptop so you can play on the trip between.

[TerranC]

112. You become obsessed with Star Trek and Space Empires, you try to get involved in every Scifi mod that includes trek and try to implement ridiculous ideas such as a trasporter that can move cargo and population from one square (sector) away from the target.

One of the most ridiculous ideas I've ever made.

113. after playing many games with SE4 standard races, you download whatever 3D programs such as Moray, DOGA, and others and use them to create your own army of light.

[ June 20, 2002, 02:41: Message edited by: TerranC ]

[Atrocities]

114 If after playing 3000 games, and you still haven't finished a game, you are most defently addicted to SEIV.

115 If you recieve 20 emails a day, and they are all from PBW games.

116 You have specified in your will that you want to be burried with your SEIV Gold disk and mouse pad.

117 You attempt to place troops on your wife or girl friend to fend off open rebellion.

118 You have installed a bucket to the bottom of your chair and moved the frige next to your PC desk.

119 Your on your fifth mouse because you've worn out the left clicker on the previous four.

120 When you sleep at night, you see little ships moving about the inside of your eye lids, and you attempt to issue them order.

[mlmbd]

If the first thing you do in the moring, after waking up isn't bathroom, coffee or the paper. But instead, you stumble to the computer to click you next turn of SEIV!

mlmbd http://www.shrapnelgames.com//ubb/icons/icon6.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

[Kamog]

122. You keep upgrading your computer, just so that it can process the turns faster.
123. You spend all of Christmas playing SEIV, working on mods and posting in the forum.

[ December 23, 2002, 07:23: Message edited by: Kamog ]

[Thei R'vek]

124. When you keep taking No-Doz to stay awake for the 19th consecutive day of gameplay because you just have to do each race in a quick start at least once.

125. When you are so obsessed with the Maximum Turn Range Check Error that you spend days clicking "End Turn" with yur finger stuck on the "Y" key so that you can send Malfador a bug report when you finally get to turn 9999.9 and save it before ending turn and getting that error.(Yes, I actually have several savegames that I am working on getting up to turn 9999.9 - I've finally gotten to turn 4563.2 on one of those....)

[Taera]

126. You're playing SE for 6 years (me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif )
127. you're trying to get all you know involved into SE
128. you're actively trying to build an RPG community based off it
129. you play this game, or read the forum, before, between, and after exam studying
130. when you cant play you're inventind tactics and drawing images (school)
131. you're trying to figure out a use for most useless weapons in the game, in the late-game (i did that!)
132. when watching any Sci-Fi movie you're trying to link anything you see in there to SE (yes right, thats a cruiser, and those are PDC's and those are APBs and WMGs...)
133. when watching the same Sci-Fi's and you see something that doesnt exist in SE you consider it impossible
134. you keep staring out on the stars at night, thinking - 'are there eee?'....
135. you're either found out yourself or asked others how does every damn single thing in SE work

[ December 23, 2002, 08:57: Message edited by: Taera ]

[Pablo]

http://www.nobiles.lt/se4/

[Gozra]

136. You buy a new game take it home and it is still in the package because you are busy playing SEIV on the web and testing your new mod and you call a friend to discuss better ways to play SEIV and How to respond to the bad guy in the current PBW game both you and he are allies in.

[ December 23, 2002, 19:51: Message edited by: Gozra ]

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Thei R'vek:
125. When you are so obsessed with the Maximum Turn Range Check Error that you spend days clicking "End Turn" with yur finger stuck on the "Y" key so that you can send Malfador a bug report when you finally get to turn 9999.9 and save it before ending turn and getting that error.(Yes, I actually have several savegames that I am working on getting up to turn 9999.9 - I've finally gotten to turn 4563.2 on one of those....)<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">MB wrote a program that processes game turns automatically, designed for long tests of AIs in short periods of time. It would speed up that effort.

[Raging Deadstar]

137. You are convinced your girlfriend said "Your Growth is Astonishing!" Last Night (Maybe she did though http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif )

[Pax]

138. You compulsively read any and all "X ways to know if you are addicted" threads or lists, pertaining to SE4.

(Guilty as charged, heh)

[Gozra]

139 When you start to tell people if "you like 'any other game in the universe' you will like SEIV"

[Taz-in-Space]

140) You are reading this list of 120+ ways written by fellow addicts... again!

I just had to get #140!!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Editted in 'again' due to #138. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/blush.gif

OK Pax? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[ December 26, 2002, 04:09: Message edited by: Taz-in-Space ]

[Atrocities]

141 You make a partnership with your neighbor, then a day later declare war upon him.

142 You have customized license plates that read: PLAYSEIV

143 You named your new kitten Amokie

144 You try to activate ministers to perform your normal RL activities.

145 You have a bumper sticker that reads:
"If God Played A PC Game, It Would Be SEIV"

[CNCRaymond]

146. Your wife demands 50% custody of the Game upon your devorce.

147. When waking in the morning, your first instict is to check these forums.

148. Your entire life has become one big game of SEIV, and your winning.

149. You attempt to colonize empty homes in your neighborhood.

150. The 150th way you know your addicted to Space Empires IV is when God himself calls you for game advice.

[Raging Deadstar]

Originally posted by CNCRaymond:
150. The 150th way you know your addicted to Space Empires IV is when God himself calls you for game advice.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">151 is when aaron himself calls for advice http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Pablo]

Atrocities maybe you have one #145 available? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Pax]

Originally posted by Taz-in-Space:
140) You are reading this list of 120+ ways written by fellow addicts...

I just had to get #140!!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sorry, you lose. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif I already covered that one in #138. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[DavidG]

#152 Since you hate sitting inside on a nice summer day you buy a laptop and a wireless router for the primary purpose of being able to sit outside play SE4 and write a modding program. (even though you don't actually do any modding yourself)

[Ragnarok]

#153 You change your legal name to Supreme Overuler < insert name >

#154 You change your name to Aaron Hall.*

*(I got half of that part down. My Last name is Hall. Just don't got the Aaron thing going for me.) http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ December 23, 2002, 23:29: Message edited by: Ragnarok ]

[Tenryu]

# 155 Not trusting Shrapnel or anyone else to make sure you know ASAP when a new patch for SE4 is out, you frequently also go to Malfadors site to double check that the current Version is REALLY REALLY REALLY the one you have and the most recent and up to date Version.

Now that's sick!
Why do I find myself doing this when I know it's so dumb?!

[Pablo]

Hey ppl, please keep up with the correct numbering. Now there are 157 ways. Next one should be #158. Numbering was messed up some time ago probably because of people posting at the same time. I'm trying to get everything lined-up http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif
anyway this is a cool thread http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Cheeze]

Aren't 153 and 154 really the same thing? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[dogscoff]

MB wrote a program that processes game turns automatically, designed for long tests of AIs in short periods of time. It would speed up that effort.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hey! You have to wait until he's got to 9950, *then* tell him about the auto-turn processor.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[AeoN2]

158 When looking at moving to a new house you decide not to because it didn't have a green + in the upper right corner.

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Cheeze:
Aren't 153 and 154 really the same thing? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Most likely. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Ragnarok]

159 You try to make a trade with an friend/ally for a home to home swap because you both can breath better in the other ones home and you won't need a dome to live there no more.

160 You swap population (Kids/Wife/Husband) for the same reason as above.

[ December 24, 2002, 16:19: Message edited by: Ragnarok ]

[Taera]

lol @ 159 & 160

[mlmbd]

161; You are convinced your new nieghbor is an undercover intel agent from the 'Drushocka' Empire.

mlmbd http://www.shrapnelgames.com//ubb/icons/icon6.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

[Raging Deadstar]

162. You stalk your neighbour trying to come up with a counter inteliigence project against him http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Atrocities]

quote:
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Originally posted by Thei R'vek:
125. When you are so obsessed with the Maximum Turn Range Check Error that you spend days clicking "End Turn" with yur finger stuck on the "Y" key so that you can send Malfador a bug report when you finally get to turn 9999.9 and save it before ending turn and getting that error.(Yes, I actually have several savegames that I am working on getting up to turn 9999.9 - I've finally gotten to turn 4563.2 on one of those....)
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MB wrote a program that processes game turns automatically, designed for long tests of AIs in short periods of time. It would speed up that effort. <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Could you please post a link to the download for this. I looked in the download section, but could not find it.

[Fyron]

It is in the Space Empires: IV Modding and other Help Tools/Information section of the Files Download forum of Shrapnel, on page 3. Here is a link to that page: http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=50;t=000004;p=3

[oleg]

<Insert number> You are all very smart and SE addicted, so please tell me when a new patch finally comes out ???

[Thei R'vek]

I'm thinking Aaron will give us patch to v1.82 for Christmas http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Taera]

163: You keep speculating when the next patch would come, endlessly.

[Grandpa Kim]

164. Until the first time you saw someone else do it, withdrawing from a game never even occurred to you.

[mlmbd]

165; You are sitting in traffic. The light turns 'green'. But the jerk in front of you just sits there. You think; 'A couple of Capital Ship Missiles IV should take are of this'!

mlmbd http://www.shrapnelgames.com//ubb/icons/icon6.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

[disabled]

167: You accept gifts from friends and family during christmas, then attempt to bombard them from your orbital baseship.

168: You demand people pay you tribute on christmas and when they don't you cough on them infecting them with plague level 1.

edit: forgot this:

169: On any holiday that is a family gather, you come to this forum before going to join your roommates that dare call themselves family.

[ June 16, 2003, 02:14: Message edited by: General Talashar ]

[Taera]

170. You view your trade screen. Then you get out your TI-83 calculator and input (trade received)*(100/trade percent) to know how much they are producing (of that kind).

I just did that...

[tbontob]

171 You no longer dream at night of blondes or redheads who "want" you in the most erotic of ways.

Instead you dream of aliens races who want you to be subjugated! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[BBegemott]

172) You are taking the biology exam. Lecture gives you the following questions on a sheet of paper:

1. Why do a badger has multiple ways to get out of his burrow?
2. Why are some lizards able to regenerate their tales, if cut off?
3. Why did the dinosaurus die long long ago?
4. Why do bears sleep in winter?
5. Why do little cats are used to turn around trying to catch their tale?
6. Why do chameleons change their skin colour?
7. Why do hares change their fur in winter/summer time?
8. Why can't penguins fly?
9. Why do frogs always catch an insect with their tongue?
10. Why do cangaroos have a pouch?

These questions seem no problem for you. Here goes the answers:

1) If a badger suspects one way is mined, it uses another to go to the shop and purchase the minesweeper.
2) They have got an organic armor.
3) Because of plague. They didn't possess the medical bay technology.
4) Just mothballing maintainance costs.
5) Little cats are learning the function "Repeat Orders" .
6) Cloaking.
7) Retrofitting armor.
8) Their engines doesn't store enough suply to lift the weight of a penguin off the ground.
9) They have the religious talisman.
10) In order to have a possibility to transport extra population.

The next day you come to know exam rezults. You find your paper and... get amased. Slightly. Your mark is nine. The fifth answer is striked out in red with the following comment nearby: All units have "Repeat Orders" available at once when created. The correct answer should be: Little cats are getting used to deal with newly acquired scanning technology; scanning surroundings. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Ragnarok]

LOL @ 172! That was great man! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Gandalph]

173. Playing 36 turns of KOTH on Christmas Day.

[tbontob]

#172 LOL

But you are really addicted if you 'choose' a prof on the basis that he plays SE4. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[tbontob]

Hmmmm

Does selecting a prof on the basis that he plays SE4 count as #174? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Captain Kwok]

175. Your windows background is starmap.bmp
176. If you are not playing SE:IV, you're modding it.
177. Your wife growls whenever she sees a putrid green-brown website on the computer.

[ December 29, 2002, 17:11: Message edited by: Captain Kwok ]

[DavidG]

#178 The most exciting thing to happen over the holidays was not the gifts, the big x-mas dinner with family, or watching how exciting the nephews were, or meeting old friends and relatives you haven't seen for a while, but sneaking a cloaked fleet into the enemies home system and glassing his homeworld.

[ December 29, 2002, 17:24: Message edited by: DavidG ]

[Atrocities]

179. If you have sent emails to your co-works claiming that acient treats stipulate that their work space belongs to you.

180. You have sent your estranged wifes lawyer a letter demanding that he Surrender.

181. If you have sent your neighbor a message demanding that he leave his house and remove all of his cars from your property.

182. If your neigbor replies by stating that "He would rather die than accept such a demand." And you view it as an act of war.

[Thei R'vek]

"175. Your windows background is starmap.bmp"

I have starmap.bmp as my background and all the SE4 cursors as my mouse cursors and all the SE4 classic sounds for my sound theme. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[CNCRaymond]

183 You talk about SEIV so much your friends and family think you have joined a cult.

184 You have Tatooted SEIV on your arm. (No I have not gone that far yet, but I'll bet someone has.)

185 You used to play many games, but now all you play is SEIV

186 You wish you could install a Religious Talisment onto your Hunting Rifle.

187 You think that the empires in SEIV are real, and you actively scan the night sky looking for any sign of the Eee.

188 You have painted your lawn black with dark blue grid lines.

189 You attempt to upgrade your wifes care with a self destruct device, and end up in jail.

190 While in jail you convert several inmate to the cult of SEIV.

[Fyron]

191 You help organize an IRC chatroom for SEIV.

[Ruatha]

192: During your cristmas trip you ask 5 different people if you can borrow 500+ Megs on their harddrive for a couple of minutes (To play your PBW turns).

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
191 You help organize an IRC chatroom for SEIV.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">191 a. You incessantly push said IRC chatroom by suggesting to anyone and everyone every chance you get that they should log on to it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[mottlee]

Originally posted by Ruatha:
192: During your cristmas trip you ask 5 different people if you can borrow 500+ Megs on their harddrive for a couple of minutes (To play your PBW turns).<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">LOL is this a "min" install http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Kamog]

193. You're disappointed when you find out there aren't any Urban Pacification Centers in your city.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
191 You help organize an IRC chatroom for SEIV.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">191 a. You incessantly push said IRC chatroom by suggesting to anyone and everyone every chance you get that they should log on to it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">191 b You want to go to the channel, but have to be constantly reminded to visit it.

[Kamog]

194. You drink from a SEIV logo mug, have SEIV posters on the wall, use a SEIV mouse pad, and wear a SEIV T-shirt.

[Ragnarok]

195. You are still in school and you build a War Shrine to help out with those fights you are always in.

[Kamog]

196. When someone asks, "How are you?", you answer, "I am jubilant".

[Atrocities]

197. You have been asked to appear on The Springer show to talk about how you spend more time playing SEIV than you do with your wife. (If only I had a wife. She would have left a long time ago.)

198. You did not know that Shrapnel Games published other games for you only visit the SEIV Forum.

199. Instead of waring a T-shirt with a http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif , you have an Eee.

200. You have contributed over 50 ways to tell your addicted to SEIV.

[ December 31, 2002, 08:59: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[Captain Kwok]

201. Your mood is influenced by the proximity of your neighbour's vehicle and house.
202. When you buy a new home, you automatically claim the surrounding lots.

[ December 31, 2002, 09:05: Message edited by: Captain Kwok ]

[Gryphin]

204) You are leagly blind but decide to make your own shipset.
203) You have severe trouble with details so you decide to do your own mod.

[ December 31, 2002, 09:03: Message edited by: Gryphin ]

[Gandalph]

205) Your New Years Eve party is an SE IV Lan party!!

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Atrocities:

200(a). You have contributed over 50 ways to tell your addicted to SEIV.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">200(b). And you actually did 40 of them.

[ December 31, 2002, 15:36: Message edited by: Ragnarok ]

[Stone Mill]

Goodness gracious, these are soooo funny. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif LOL!

Letterman may offer you all some jobs.

[tbontob]

206 Your heart palpitates at the slightest hint that the PBW server may be down.

207 You panic when you discover the PBW server is down.

208 You go into shock when you discover the PBW server may be down for more than 10 minutes.

209 You display severe withdrawal symptoms if the PBW server is down more than a day.

210 If the PBW server is down more than 2 days, you are bundled away by some guys in white coats to a place where you can do no harm to yourself or to others.

211 If you do not have access to the PBW server for more than 3 days, (and how can you, if you are put into a nice, stark, clean, 9 by 8 room with no amenities) you start to drool, become vacant eyed and withdraw from all contact with the world.

[KirbyEF]

"Don't Panic"

[DavidG]

#212. You happen to wake up at 4am and instead of just going to sleep again you get up and see if your PBW turn is in.

(sadly it was not http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif )

[Atrocities]

204) You are leagly blind but decide to make your own shipset.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">How did you know that about me? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/confused.gif

[Gozra]

213 you are seriously considering flying out to Ohio to offer your technical services to get the server back on line.

214 You and your friends discuss SEIV for an hour and a half at the new years eve party. Then you interupt and say lets talk about something else and 8 minutes later you mention the stealth fighter in popular science would make a cool SEIV Fighter picture and suddenly you are in another round of SEIV discussions.

Compliment to Aaron Hall IT is good to see that a great game can still be made in a garage. Not my quote.

[Ed Kolis]

215. You don't mind when your girlfriend breaks up with you because you were playing in a pbw game with her and you said "your cities shall burn with our vengeful fire"

[tbontob]

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
215. You don't mind when your girlfriend breaks up with you because you were playing in a pbw game with her and you said "your cities shall burn with our vengeful fire"<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Or....

215a "Why have you broken our alliance? What more do you want from me?

I gave you organics! (wined and dined you). I gave you minerals (a ring/locket/bracelet). I gave you an organ... (Hmmm... you guys will have to figure this one out!). http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Phoenix-D]

216. Instead of "just one more turn" you now say "just one more GAME"

217. The game in 216 is a 20 player 255 system game.

Phoenix-D

[rextorres]

218. You keep redoing your next turn while waiting for the PBW server to go back on line.

[ January 02, 2003, 23:42: Message edited by: rextorres ]

[Gandalph]

Originally posted by rextorres:
218. You keep redoing your next turn while waiting for the PBW server to go back on line.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Now That's addiction!! LOL

[disabled]

219: You write a song about SE4 after you wife leaves you, your children leave you, your girlfriend leaves you, you car is reposses, your phones are cut, your TV is repossed, and more titled "Just One More Turn, Baby!"

[tbontob]

Originally posted by Gandalph:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by rextorres:
218. You keep redoing your next turn while waiting for the PBW server to go back on line.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Now That's addiction!! LOL</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Or boredom! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Taera]

220. You're doing an english portfolio assignment. One of the parts is "write anything". Your first and only idea is to write a short story about your race in SE4. It had been approved and already approaching 5th page in word.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[tbontob]

221 You update your resume for a job by including a new skill...

Proficient in SE4. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Atrocities]

222. You score poorly on the written exam for college admittance, but when the instructor finds out your "the Atrocities" your score is becomes acceptable. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ January 15, 2003, 20:52: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[Atrocities]

223 While filling out a job application you write:

Most Current Job: General Operations Director
Company: United Consortum of Planets
Pay: Unlimited resources.
Job Duties:
Over see operation of a massive space empire including but not limited too Colonization operations, ship design, planetary managment, fleet managment, research, intelligance operations, combat, population control, etc.
Reason For Leaving: Still Currently In Charge

Job 2: Prime Minister
Company: Dominion Imperium
Pay: Unlimited resources.
Job Duties:
Over see operation of a massive space empire including but not limited too Colonization operations, ship design, planetary managment, fleet managment, research, intelligance operations, combat, population control, etc.
Reason For Leaving: Defeated by the Borg

Job 2: Chancellor
Company: Federation Republic
Pay: Unlimited resources.
Job Duties:
Over see operation of a massive space empire including but not limited too Colonization operations, ship design, planetary managment, fleet managment, research, intelligance operations, combat, population control, etc.
Reason For Leaving: Catasrophic Stellor event on turn 3.

[ January 15, 2003, 20:59: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[tesco samoa]

224. While filling the sink with hot water to wash dirty pots you go down stairs for a quick one. Natually ofcourse you get caught up on a conversation on #SE4 , email reply to Geo about Dimension 2x , do a Koth turn, do a ADM 0## turn , look at SEB , drop by shrapnel.... The wife comes home and screams if your OK... You think yea I am ok so lets go see what is up...Hey there is a flood of water and soap suds on the...Ah sugar...

True story...

[Fyron]

225. You create an absurd amount of se4-related polls (5+ in one day!).

226. You are late to nearly every class because you spend too much time reading this forum.

[ January 15, 2003, 21:41: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Gryphin]

tesco samoa All too real. The worse i did was
One time:
burn the pea soup I was reheating for dinner,
forget to fold the laundry so it came out all wrinkled, (including her blouses)
Nother time:
left the cream on the counter in the summer in the direct heat
didn't mow the lawn
didn't get my hair cut
Nother day, um, sheesh, and you wonder why she didtched me.

[Atrocities]

How many of you have lost your spouse, lover, or job over this game????

I burned my pizza once. Went a whole weekend without answering the phone. And missed several doctors appointments to play that one Last turn.

Oh ya, I missed 24 Last night too. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif

[Gryphin]

Atrocities missed "24" what? is that a tv show?

[Gryphin]

Atrocities ,
Well, "lost" was the best thing that ever happened to me, < snip dumb post >
It was a symptom if not the cause.

[ January 16, 2003, 01:40: Message edited by: Gryphin ]

[tesco samoa]

24 is on again during the week at... check your guide...

[von_toaster]

227. You wish for a Climate Control Facility during the long and harsh canadian winters

[tbontob]

Originally posted by von_toaster:
227. You wish for a Climate Control Facility during the long and harsh canadian winters<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yes, but I wished for that before I started playing SE4. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Must say, though that our winters don't seem as harsh as many years ago. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[von_toaster]

True. Still, today is friggin' cold back here in Montreal

[Gozra]

228. you buy a new laptop so you can play SEIV while you are away on business trips and tell your wife it's really so you can IM her while you are away.
(If my Gal sees this there will be hell to pay)

[TerranC]

Originally posted by tbontob:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by von_toaster:
227. You wish for a Climate Control Facility during the long and harsh canadian winters<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yes, but I wished for that before I started playing SE4. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Must say, though that our winters don't seem as harsh as many years ago. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Eastern Canada is cold as heck. I wish I was in calgary right now, or better, in Vancouver. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

[Slick]

Originally posted by von_toaster:
True. Still, today is friggin' cold back here in Montreal<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Tell me about it. I swear it got down below 60 Last night. Brrr! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Slick.

[Fyron]

It gets to like 50 at night here in the desert that is southern California! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Ragnarok]

Oh my goodness... Would you guys just be quiet?! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
It must be nice to have it in the 50s or 60s at night. Over here in the eastern part of the states it gets down to around 5 outside at night. Sometimes lower then that if the wind is blowing. I absolutly hate it too.

[Ed Kolis]

229. (not sure if this has been posted before) You are filling out official documentation, and when you get to the "Race" line you write in "Terran".

230. You've been playing for 6 hours straight and think, "Man, I need a break!" so you go and work on your mod.

[Cyrien]

231. You find what might be a super rare bug that does some strange stuff, is easy to solve, and no ne else has apparantly ever seen it.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[tesco samoa]

232. You can eyeball the difference between a meson bLaster I and a meson bLaster IV in combat.

233. You show this to your dad.

234. You actually think it is cool.

236. You dad agrees.

237. ( a different one ) YOu talk with puke about your seiv pbw dream... and he had the same one...

[ April 10, 2003, 00:43: Message edited by: tesco samoa ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

some people on here need to be out to SEA, methinks.
Space Empires Anonymous.

[Atrocities]

Is it a 12 step program? SEA. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

it's a twelve step staggered program.

[Kamog]

The only cure for SEIV addiction is going to be SEV...

[Loser]

238. While comparing the US and Canada in matters of area, population, and production, you determine that Canada is a domed colony. You then announce to your coworkers "I think I figured out what's wrong with Canada."

true story

(edit: this is not meant to be a knock on Canada, just an amusing interpretation of statistics.)

[ April 11, 2003, 15:28: Message edited by: Loser ]

[Ed Kolis]

lol http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

well that explains why they talk funny... canadian voices are designed to be heard in a methane atmosphere and hearing them in oxygen just messes them up http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

so, how's your ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf? ruf?

[Ed Kolis]

ok, most of these are pretty bad, but here goes...

239. You actually know what "contra-terrene" means - bonus points if you have more than a vague understanding of how a photon can be "jacketed"!
240. The fact that a tachyon cannon has a completely different effect than a tachyon PROJECTION cannon is not in the least disturbing to you.
241. "So then they opened fire with their Wave Motion Gun..." "Oh, you a fan of Starblazers are you?" "Starblazers? Never heard of it..."
242. When watching the original Star Trek episode "The Ultimate Computer" you think, "A REAL Master Computer wouldn't act like that!"
243. Upon seeing the monolith on the moon in "2001: A Space Odyssey" your immediate reaction was, "Oh boy! 1100 of every resource! Too bad the moon doesn't have any more facility slots, then we could REALLY rake in the dough!"
244. You don't understand why when we have a war all our molecular biologists and architectural engineers don't immediately drop what they're doing and start developing orbital massdriver cannons of doom! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
245. "They're using depleted uranium shells? So what, my emissive armor will block 3/4 of the damage!"
246. When you heard that ground troops were deployed to Iraq, you turned on the TV and said, "Hey, what are all those guys doing there in funny green outfits? Where are the Heavy Battle Mecha?"
247. And when you heard about the casualties, you said, "Wounded?!? That's impossible! Troops are units, so they don't take partial damage!"
248. You take up playing Starcraft but can't shake the habit of calling your Zerglings "ripper beam escorts" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif
249. You start wondering what racial traits God has. "Ancient Race for sure, and he probably has Omnipresent view of all systems turned on as well, the cheating %*@!*( ..."
250. (Woohoo, a good one for a good number!) Your girlfriend gets pregnant and you say, "Oops, it must be the leaky shield effect" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
251. She DOESN'T get pregnant and you say, "Dammit Susan, do you HAVE to use so much Emissive Armor?"
252. You never quite saw the point of "broadband"... dialup is good enough for all MY Online gaming needs... if it takes two days between turns, surely I can wait another five minutes for the .zip to download from PBW...
253. You ask the pastor of your church if it is a War Shrine or one of those pansy Nature Shrines, because we really need to help out the boys in Iraq!
254. You are the director of the Department of Homeland Security and your first initiative to prevent terrorism is to build a Fate Shrine in every state.
255. You can recite the names of all the Canadian regulars to this forum, from memory! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif
256. You did not write this entry for fear of causing an Overflow Error and crashing the game http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Suicide Junkie]

257. You take exception to #253, because system-wide value and conditions improvement are awesome abilities.

[tesco samoa]

#258 you notice that #243 is wrong

[FadingSuns]

#259 You justify a poor yearly review at work by saying "well, you have to take into account my -20% productivity" because of hostile elements in my proximity.
#260 You love SPACE HoRSE, but thought that resource 'spoilage' was unrealistic because it should have been labled 'maintenance'.
#261 You don't believe in a war for oil, but minerals and radioactives might be another matter all together.

[Raging Deadstar]

262. (This happened to me today) You look at anything with the word "Race" in it and simultaeneously think of shipsets and try and correct it in your head to "Racial"

[Gandalph]

263 - Your friends are tired of the way you analogize everything to SE4 terms.
Friend "They never should have put that rookie pitcher in Last night."
Me "Yeah, it's like in SE4, you never send your ship into battle before parking it over your emergency training sector for a couple of turns"
Friend "OH jeesh."

[Gryphin]

264 - You have logged into this forum from at least 10 different computers. One of which is an unused office at work where you won't be noticed. (like right now)

265) - You sometimes find you have 5 or more sesions of these Forums open.

266) Edit: removed in favor of Narf's.

[ April 24, 2003, 13:32: Message edited by: Gryphin ]

[Kamog]

Originally posted by Gryphin:
266) You sometimes find you have 5510 or more SEIV sites open simultaneously<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That's a lot! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

[tbontob]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
#258 you notice that #243 is wrong<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">266 It really bothers you when you notice #243 is wrong.

267 Your fingers just itch to correct the error to 900!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

268: you open so many sessions of the forum threads all you can see is 'int...'
uh-oh.

[Taera]

lol narf, been there http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Instar]

whatever number it is now:
Being up at 3am because of school work and desperately seeking sleep but reading Shrapnel forums because it is so great

[Taera]

got linked here recently... is there a complete list of those? if there isnt, we should get one done, i'd print it...

[General Woundwort]

Originally posted by Taera:
got linked here recently... is there a complete list of those? if there isnt, we should get one done, i'd print it...<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Pablo's done it. Here's the link...

http://web.init.lt/~pablo/se4/addicted.htm

[Lord_Shleepy]

This has probably been said before but:

When you spend so much time customizing the game that you never play it.

[Atrocities]

#. When asked what your profession is you respond by saying: "General Operations Director of the Starwolf Empire."
#. When your friends and family try to have you committed because you live at your computer waiting for PBW to come back up.
#. When you purchase satellite ISP so you can play your PBW turns while on the road.
#. When you came here from the MOO3 forum and never looked back.

[HEMAN]

()When you email Atrocities everyday and ask to add unlimited things to STAR TREK MODE http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif , and you havent even played a single game turn of SE4 gold.

() When you ask all modders to add all modes together like devellon,star trek,AST,piret nomad,Babylon 5,AI, to get a real teck thrill http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif .

Ferengi Rules of Acquisition #48 The bigger the smile,the sharper the knife.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

how to tell when your on the forums to much...

if you don't pay attention, no matter which web site you wanted to go to, you type in www.shrapnelgames.com. (http://www.shrapnelgames.com.) happens to me.

[Atrocities]

How to tell if your addicted to SEIV a simple three question quiz.

1. Are you reading this?
2. Do you stay up all night just to play one more turn?
3. Does this apply to you? I am the ruler of a galatic empire that spans 16 systems and over 100 worlds. Billions of people depend upon me to keep them safe from the Eee, Phong, and Rage hords!

[Pablo]

Originally posted by Taera:
got linked here recently... is there a complete list of those? if there isnt, we should get one done, i'd print it...<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yep Taera, the link is in my sig. I got all the things that say you're addicted to seiv from the beginning of this thread but later people started to repeat things or just to discuss one another's ideas so I couldn't think of a way to get them without changing. Maybe a revision (that means changing) of the list + the continuation of this thread would be interesting but I wanted to get the original wording (then bumped into problems and stopped). Maybe you want to take it over and continue?

Edit: Atrocities, I think the question No.2 is enough. You just have to ask it and see the person's face (or the mirror if you're asking yourself) http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[ September 01, 2003, 06:56: Message edited by: Pablo ]

[Ed Kolis]

Instead of measuring time in hr, min, sec... you measure it in min, org, rad! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

You know, over at the Mobius Forum (http://pub228.ezboard.com/bsonichqcommunity) there's a thread with over 2000 (20XX might be appropriate http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif ) "signs you play too much Megaman"...

[Jack Simth]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
how to tell when your on the forums to much...

if you don't pay attention, no matter which web site you wanted to go to, you type in www.shrapnelgames.com. (http://www.shrapnelgames.com.) happens to me.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I do not just type in www.shrapnelgames.com (http://www.shrapnelgames.com) - I type in www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_daily (http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_daily) - Does that make me more or less addicted?

[userx]

When a hot girl friend is visiting from Paris and you spend time on this site and getting in a few turns on your saved game in the 15 minutes before she arrives!

[Atrocities]

The list needs to be updated and I am far to lazy of an individual to do it.

# When all you do is talk about SEIV and how you modded this and that and no one around you knows what in the hell your talking about and all wish you would just shut the hell up.

# When go to bed at night frustrated about a problem with your new mod only to wake up at 3 am with the solution and spend the next 12 hours modding your mod

# When you go to bed thinking your empire is going to kick the crap out of another empires fleet in PBW just to wake up, download the next turn and discover your fleet is gone, your planets captured, and your empire in ruin.

# When you cry over loosing a fleet of ships

# When you openly plan to commit honorable suicide for failing your empire and allowing the Vile Federation to conqure you.

# When you start attending Star Trek conventions dressed up as a Phong.

# When you stand on a street corner yelling at the top of your lungs - "The EEE are Comming!"

# When you begin to think of finances in SEIV terms. Money = minerals + Organics + Rads - maitenace cost / pie = "**** I am broke! Time to put things on hold."

[Antonin]

#When you lie awake at night worrying that your new Kirov-class light cruiser may be under-gunned for the war you have just launched against the second-most-powerful empire in your current game.

#When you become giddy with joy at the fact that achieving gas planet colonization technology has doubled your empire's potential resource base and industrial strength at a single stroke.

#When your wife asks you "What's wrong?" and you just don't know how to tell her that what you are so deeply worried about is the fact that the Klingons have just declared war on your empire and you have no navy to speak of.

[Puke]

when you have read four seperate forum topics regarding how to diagnose an addiction to this game or forum:

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=23;t=010552#000000

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=23;t=009035#000000

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=23;t=006010#000000

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=23;t=004698#000000

[Loser]

Waking the dead here, Puke.

#When you count your PBW games among the commitments that keep you going.

#When you budget time for creative writing, almost every week, for an RP SE IV forum (http://www.invirtuo.cc/se4/index.php).

#When the product of this creative writing is something you are so proud of that you show it off to your friends, whether or not you've converted them to SE IV yet.

#When you get that 'crunch time hustle' feeling when time starts getting short on either of those.

#When you think about starting a discussion over whether Space Empires IV should be abbreviated 'SEIV', 'SE IV', or maybe just '1.84'.

[Ed Kolis]

Originally posted by Loser:
#When you think about starting a discussion over whether Space Empires IV should be abbreviated 'SEIV', 'SE IV', or maybe just '1.84'. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">When you say, "Hey! You forgot 1.49, Classic, Gold, and SE4!" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[oleg]

Inspired by a recent Moon discussion:
# You know you play SEIV too much when you look up to the skies and say "Sol IIIA is in the full phase !" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Suicide Junkie]

Originally posted by userx:
When a hot girl friend is visiting from Paris and you spend time on this site and getting in a few turns on your saved game in the 15 minutes before she arrives! <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">When she has just arrived, but you need to finish "Just one more turn"

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Originally posted by userx:
When a hot girl friend is visiting from Paris and you spend time on this site and getting in a few turns on your saved game in the 15 minutes before she arrives! <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">When she has just arrived, but you need to finish "Just one more turn" </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Or worse, she comes into your room while you are issuing orders and tells you that your tactics will fail and your worlds will be conqured. Then she borrows your PC and plays her turn, in the same game, and is the enemy you have been fighting for weeks.

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by oleg:
Inspired by a recent Moon discussion:
# You know you play SEIV too much when you look up to the skies and say "Sol IIIA is in the full phase !" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">thank you thank you thank you for making me laugh out loud for the first time in many many many months. you are a true genius.
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

maybe we should start a '200 ways to tell your addicted to the SEIV forum.' topic. you could use me as the definition. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[Atrocities]

I really should update this list again. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Se IV is like crack cocain. It is and addictive product that sucks up your free time and life like a black hole.

[Atrocities]

I have updated the list.

New List (http://www.astmod.com/seiv300list.htm)

[Suicide Junkie]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
I really should update this list again. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Se IV is like crack cocain. It is and addictive product that sucks up your free time and life like a black hole. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">But its not as expensive, and the cops won't come bashing down the door until you've been missing for a few days in a row and the neighbours think you're dead.

[Baron Munchausen]

More thread necromancy...

Wired Magazine has taken noticed of the reality-bending effects of game addiction:

http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,66225,00.html

[Atrocities]

To bad they don't take notice of our list.