609: you spend 2 hours reading this thread found whilst looking for multiplayer options.
610: you also join the forum to join the thread.
611: you've taken the sound effects and used them as your PC's sounds. ("Please don't go, the drones need you..")
612: you have learned more tonight reading about worms than in the rest of your life.
613: you want to tell everyone that "mind worms" came from Frank Herbert's 'Destination: Void' series of books.
614: and so did sentient kelp.
http://io9.com/5980198/5-essential-frank-herbert-novels-that-arent-about-dune
615: only another 365 reasons to go.
616: you realise, sitting there, that you have wasted 100s of thousands of hours not playing SMAC, but only 10,000+ in useful gameplay, and feel saddened.
617: you have had actual LOLS from reading some of previous reasons.
618: despite it being 5am, you seriously consider starting a new huge game, but would really like to play multiplayer instead.
619: you wonder why there is no SMAC2, when there are so many new ideas that could be put in it.
620: like formers programmable to only plant forests.
621: and having regions rebel so when you've won, you have to start worrying again.
622: you forgot what this one was, due to lack of polymorphic software.
623: because if there were ever a Mars colonisation spaceship, you would vote to make it called "The Unity".
624: and bunk-up with the beautiful Greenie leader called "Dierdre", to get on the mission.
625: and bio-engineer trees to attack worms, in a pre-strike theory.
626: and you think the A-Team's ability to turn an electric milk-float into a battle-tank is just the beginning...