Clues that your addicted to SEIV

[geoschmo]

70. You can carry on a discussion for a day annd a half in the forum about who posted which number in which order. (Sorry guys, I couldn't resist)

[Will]

71. You post ways that you can tell you're addicted to SEIV... :Þ

[Atrocities]

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 quite 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 ware 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... :Þ
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

[ 22 February 2002: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[Nightscourge]

72. You check on the latest status of SE IV Gold about 8 times a day

...and, Mephisto, it is me, the guy from Hamburg, who desperately waits for your mail that you have ordered it

[dogscoff]

74 - You're sitting in the office trying to dream up SEIV lyrics to Puretone's addicted to bass...

"Totaly addicted to Space..."

[Gryphin]

75) You have convinced one of your dates to post to your own thread, (Gryphin Growltigga).

[dogscoff]

OK, first check out the original lyrics, and maybe listen to the clip

Then read what I've managed so far- Suggestions welcome.

I got two defence fleets in a retrofit chain
The Rage are attacking my homeworld again
The situation's strategy taxes my brain
there must be something I can do to cause the bastards pain
I'm looking over to my girlfriend you know
There's nothing in the way she looks to show
That she too, knows what I know,
The need to see your dominion grow
Studying the game map, I feel I've found my place
Searching out for new planets for my conqueror race
If you stand in my way, you know you'll get erased,
A word about my weakness

I'm totally addicted to space
Wow woah ho
Totally addicted to space
Wow woah ho

(Wow woah ho)

And when the polaron cannons are cool
I bring my ships back home to refuel

(Yeah, I know, I need to get a life...)

[Atrocities]

76. You have baracaded 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 dispite your best efforts, your 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 consider glassing your wifes homeworld.
80. You make active plans to invade the living room.
81. After months of playing SEIV on PBW, you go through withdrawls 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.

[Mephisto]

quote:

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Originally posted by Nightscourge:
...and, Mephisto, it is me, the guy from Hamburg, who desperately waits for your mail that you have ordered it

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Hi Nightscourge! Actually, I'm in the process of ordering it, I'm just waiting for Richard to came back to me about the matter.

[dogscoff]

Inspired by #83:

As we all know, Space Empires IV uses a decimal date system (ie 10 months per year) rather than our own quirky, inefficient 12 month model.

For those wishing to switch to the decimal system, I have created this handy SEIV date converter sheet. Enjoy!

(XLS format)

1014393352.zip