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

[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...

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)

[ 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!

You know, over at the Mobius Forum there's a thread with over 2000 (20XX might be appropriate ) "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. happens to me.

I do not just type in www.shrapnelgames.com - I type in 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...=010552#000000

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...=009035#000000

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...=006010#000000

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...=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.

#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'.

When you say, "Hey! You forgot 1.49, Classic, Gold, and SE4!"