when you finish a game on the Huge Multi-Star map

when you play it in your sleep/dream your domination

when you make a map with 15 stars and almost 400 planets  

when you make a huge map ie atleast 6 stars and 500 planets AND play it through to 100% culture

harpo

when you finish Voruk's Labrinith against 9 unfair AI

when you lose sleep and close your eyes and all you can see is this game

When you're playing other games and expect the map to zoom the same way. Or when someone posts a screenshot and you instinctively try to zoom in on an intresting bit...

lol!

More:

When you cry: "The Advent have come! Save yourselves!" every time you hear the test of the emergency broadcast system.

When you make a stop at a red light, and expect all the cars to start shooting at each other.  "TAKE THAT ONCOMMING LANE!"

When you reverse engineer the AI's coding through experimentation of every possible variable.

• When you start playing at 20:00 and are still playing at 04:00 in the morning. (meaning you get 3 hours of sleep)
• When you move and say: We are exiles no longer.
• When you move all the time certain that an unknown enemy is chasing you.
• If you start seeing your house as your planet and your garden as it's grav well. And the street as phase lanes too your neighbours planet grav well.
• If you put a tv on the wall between you and your neighbour with you favorite show on hoping for cultural overthrow.
• When you call the cops cause your convinced your bossy wife is an advent agent.
• When you refer too United nations as TEC.
• When you buy a meadow and put ponies on it just too brag that you DID achieve the space ponies achievement.
• If you can make your Cats attack your neighbour on the command of NANO DISAMBLE.
• If you start building a huge catapult in your garden saying it's your novalith cannon.
• If you put a lock of your own on your neighbours gate thinking you've build a phase inhibitor.
• If you say all you need too live is your PC an internet connection and sins.
• If there's a pile of empty cans of boose next too your monitor.
• If you wake up in the morning seeing you hosted a game but fell asleep in setup. That's really playing until you drop. (not my experience someone elses)

Grtz,

[_]-Flipkik

Which would explain a lot

...When you memorize each and every song and SFX in the game, and then hum them around in the street.

...When your girlfriend leaves you and you say "The Unity shall have its revenge!"

...When your room is full of Sins wallpapers and your desktop, including icons and the mouse are all Sins, and when you downloaded each and every mod published, and tested it, left a comment and made a mod yourself.

...When you enter the game you don't need to look on the screen to know where are the correct buttons to start a game as the Advent Unity, playing against the TEC and the Vasari Empire, 4x4, Large Map, Large Fleets and pirates disabled.

...When you start harassing Sins Developers with "When's the sequel, when's the sequel?!?!"

...When you convinced all your friends to buy and play Sins as well, and have become master of all multiplayer games, knowing all the strategies and factions.

...When you memorize all the faction's techs, ships, and all their related things.

...When you post in a thread named "you know you play to much sins when you....." <---- :p

when you want to get big fish bowl and put it on a horses head to call it a space pony

when you want make a green flame come off your car

YARRR

when you paint your horse pink and hope somebody gives you an achievement award.

when you watch 3 sun sets and 3 sun rises in a row

when you can counter a carrier spam with out carriers

when you get home from school first day of summer get on your computer and dont get off until the next week

when you write on every test the unity shall have revenge, marza mash, our power is unmatched......

When you haven't even had time to post on the Sins forum.

When, upon landing, you announce over the plane's intercom: "Our ship has exited phaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase space."

When you have to take a bio break in the middle of class and you look for the "pause" button on your desk.

When your monitor breaks and you still start and win a Sins game against 9 other people.

Whenever someone calls your name, you say, "Got a job for me?"

When you try to raise the pirate bounty on your boss when someone else gets that promotion.  (it doesn't work. trust me.)

When you name your pets after your race's capitol ships.

When you tell "Korigul" to use "Volatile Nanites" outside.

When you try to have your house "Kinetic bolt proofed"

When you overhaul your car's body to look like a Kol.

When you've figured out how to edit your ships in a way that won't cause desync.

when you dream about the game and then the next day have the same thing happen in your dream

when you think about playing the 10th aniversery of the game and having 200 captial ships and 20000 ship space on a 50 star map with 30 player slots RAWR

when you can play it on your XBOX

You preorder the expansion to find out that the game just got way beter

lol, great.

...when you cosider building more trade ports a good solution to the economic crisis.

When you martyr yourself on your neighbor's car, screaming, "For the Unity!"

when you start flashing yor car lights on and off, thinking they're lasers.