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| I am hopelessly addicted to GC.I am getting no sleep, all I can think about is hitting the computer and frying up some Torian.I wonder if there is a support group to help me |
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The Fellowship can help; most of us have already given up, or joined the Guardians, which is another kind of giving up. There are twelve steps to follow.
1 Admit that you are powerless over your addiction to GalCiv, and that your life has become unmanageable due to your addiction.
2 Believe that a higher power, such as alcohol, can restore you to sanity.
3 Make a decision to turn your life around and never play again, except maybe once a month to stop you dropping out of the Metaverse.
4 Make a searching inventory of your life, and another one of your hard disk, to see if there’s something else you could be playing.
5 Admit to yourself and others the exact nature of your problem. Do not post this problem on the strategy forum.
6 Remove GalCiv from your hard disk, in order to improve the quality of your life (but keep the CD, just in case you need it for some reason).
7 Seek to overcome your shortcomings, rather than overcoming the shortcomings in GalCiv’s AI.
8 Make a list of all the people you have harmed by your addiction and either make amends or teach them to play GalCiv so they’ll know how you felt.
9 Vow to go on harming people and making amends in the future.
10 From now on, promptly admit that you are wrong, even when you aren’t. It saves on tedious arguments about the respective merits of different versions of Master of Orion or the Metaverse scoring system.
11 Pray that Real Life turns out to be less boring than you remember it.
12 Having experienced a profound spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, carry this message to other addicts and annoy them with your newfound moral superiority.
           
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I only hope we can get this important message out before it's too late to all the other helpless addicts, such as Greldon, Lothmorg, and anyone else with a higher score than me.
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Good, that's a total of eight smileys to add to my collection. I'm keeping them all in a special file, which I can bring out and show to people if they ever question how funny I am.
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| I'm afraid it's too late for me...(clicks turn button) to do anything...(clicks turn button) about it! |
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That's what I used to think. I was a hopeless case. And then I realised that in civgames, I was fooling myself in thinking that I was doing something fun. I struggled endlessly towards victory... but my victories were hollow. A civgame victory is just the end of the game, and end to the fun. And every little victory along the way is only a victory because it takes you closer to that final futile ending - in reality, no victory at all.
Using this theory, I was able to reject the lure civgaming. And then, with an intellectual flourish, I was able to create a more general version of the theory, one which demonstrated to my satisfaction that all human endeavour is futile and that life is pointless.
At this point I was plunged into a year-long bout of crippling depression.
And the moral of the story is, don't think too much.
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Thanks Hurley! As a former Navy man, and Combat Information Center Watch Supervisor, I found that extremely hard to believe. 
 
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| I reached 800000 in the Metaverse next target 900000 |
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Congratulations! It seems that there are a number of players approaching 1M! 
  
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no Slothrop, it doesn't belong to you... Stop it right now. 
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