1000 ways you know you played Alpha Centauri too much!

302: You have a fear of spaghetti and noodles.
303: Then you overcome your fears and try to train them.
304: You think the Isle of Skye in Scotland is named after Deirdre.
 
305. You support the change from your countries free market economic system to a planned one in order to initiatie a pop boom so your nation can catch up with China and India.
 
310) you register just to post on this thread
311) You install Alpha Centauri onto a USB flash disk to play AC on public computers (doing that right now)
312) Since 1999, you have huge gaps in your life that correspond to periodically rediscovering Alpha Centauri.
313) You play MP Alpha Centauri
314) You and your friends pool your money to buy a copy of AC when it comes out, just because of the demo.
315) You have a burned copy of the original AC, then proceed to get two more legal copies... just in case.
316) Despite the fact AC doesn't need a CD to run
317) You buy an entire 5 game package just to get Alien Crossfire
318) Despite knowing that it's avaiable on Underdogs as abandonware
319) When playing Civ 2/3, you keep thinking 'that would be a good place for an ocean city'
320) You keep telling your Civ 3 workers to drill boreholes
321) You wonder why Alpha Centauri keeps going into 256 colour mode, but are too busy playing to find out why.
322) You have been doing that for the last 7 years
323) When studying international trade, you keep wondering when energy credits will show up
324) You buy all the Alpha Centauri novels
325) And read them
326) And try to recreate the situations and timeline in-game.
327) You have to supress the urge to classify people you meet as 'Drones, Workers, Talents, Empaths, and Perfects'
328) You call call a fighter a needlejet
329) You expect monohull ships to outrun hovercraft
330) You try to connect a network cable into the ground and send it the sum total of the Internet.
 
331: You start modding Civ4 to get boreholes in the game
332: When you are at it you also starts to mod in ocean cities
 
Cuivienen said:
333. You think Transcend-OCF is a pushover and wish the AI was more competitive.

334. You have tried to make the AI more competitive for said Transcend-OCF.
 
335. You speak to mushrooms.
336. You wonder how Alien Artifacts helped your colleague with his drinking problem.
337. You look for Ctrl/A on your lawnmower controls
338. You talk about the Seven Special Projects of the World

ok OCC I know, so what is OCF?
 
339. You take notice of the fact that there was a Russian scientist named Sakharov (I found out from a Great Scientist in Civilization IV...)
340. You write fan fiction about AC.
341. You find yourself wishing you could play it at all possible hours of the day.
 
343. You head to this thread expecting there to be more replies than there are.
 
346. You find it funny that you're actually older than Zakharov, Morgan and Yang.
347. You find it funny that your youngest brother is two years older than Zakharov. (Heh heh... could you see them playing video games together?)
348. You take notice of the Human Genome Project (is it already 100% or are they still mapping? The figures always slip my mind...)
 
349: You have found all the music and voice files in the game and out them on a MP3 player.
 
350: You ARE Three years older than Morgan, and then in the future, you get impressed when he opens Morgan Industries.
351: You get a job there.
352: You begin to get better ranks.
353: You become vice-president of Morgan Industries
354: You go to Alpha Centauri with Morgan.
355: You still the vice-president...
356: The Year is 2500, and... SURPRISE! You still the vice-president.
 
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