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You might be a Vendetta addict if...

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Dec 11, 2003 Phaserlight link
10) You'd rather be earning credits than bucks.

9) You have every sector memorized, but you can't remember the way to the grocery store.

8) You find yourself wondering if you should change the engine/battery config on your car.

7) You can read, write, and speak fluent Galactic Trade Standard.

6) You lie awake all night trying to think of a good counter argument to Celebrim's post.

5) You have nightmares about being stuck in slow motion while chased by a tri flare valk.

4) You kill a tri flare valk in bus... with no weapon.

3) You have an alias that does your taxes for you.

2) a1k0n asks you to join Guild Software.

1) Icarus pays you to stop pirating him.

keep playing, j00 4dd1c75! ;-D
Dec 11, 2003 Suicidal Lemming link
11) If you play too much to wonder how people can read Celebrim's posts.
Dec 11, 2003 Celebrim link
11) You have more than 6 megabytes of posted material on the boards.

11a)....And that was six months ago.

12) You name appears in other people's posts, even when they aren't responding to you.

12a)...And you aren't even a dev.

12b)...And heck, you are only playing for two or three hours a week now.

12c)...And you've been using a half dozen different aliases in the game for at least the last six months.

Dec 11, 2003 Eldrad link
13) typing in /alias fills the entire console. ie you pageup all the way to the top and you can still only see a small portion of the aliases.
Dec 11, 2003 roguelazer link
14) You have over a gig of .tga files in your ~/.vendetta directory, and you run a tga->jpg converter weekly

15) You have made at least 2 separate Vendetta themes for something

16) You spend more time on your fansite than you do on your homework

17) You find yourself saying "Back in my day, we only had 9 sectors"

18) The devs know you on nicksight and hide when you login

18a) You know the devs by many of their nicks and grief them whenever they come on

19) You think Icarus is a cool guy, even though he pirates you

20) You work on your wgaf.cfg file in your spare time
Dec 11, 2003 Pyro link
Wow, I said yes to over half of rogue's...
Dec 11, 2003 Magus link
Horray I'm not an addict yet. I was getting worried for a while there.
Dec 11, 2003 LordViking link
oh...me too...
/me needs life
Dec 11, 2003 roguelazer link
I said yes to...

5, 6, 7, 9, 11 (both), 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 18a, 19 and 20
Dec 11, 2003 ctishman link
21) You find yourself saying "Back in my day, we only had THREE sectors"

21a) You consider said declaration a badge of honor.

22) You've made an illustrated Vendetta encyclopedia

23) You've made up names and background stories for the sectors

24) You swap out your GeForce4 MX for an ATI Rage 128 just so you can play Vendetta.

25) You know the significance of Lady Serco in the Unofficial Canon

25a) You hope the devs will integrate parts of the Unofficial Canon into the official one.

26) You write Serco poetry

26a) You write multiple pages of Serco poetry.
Dec 11, 2003 LordViking link
Yes to 23 right now...see the glorious history of sector 10 in the off topic section...
Dec 11, 2003 The Kid link
12b and 17... at least now anyways (I play way less vendetta now)
Dec 11, 2003 Suicidal Lemming link
27) You worked on the Waylonic language only to have a, fairly full and correct, translation of the letters posted by the devs.
27a) You continue to work on it anyways.
27b) You correct the fairly correct translation of the letters.
Dec 11, 2003 HumpyThePenguin link
28) You've made a game using /aliases
29) Your loved ones worry about the time you spend online and playing Vendetta
30) You make 3D models and compare them to the models ingame
30a) ...and then try to guess what race they would belong to
30b) ...and give them loadouts using small and large ports
Dec 11, 2003 Spellcast link
31) you start more than one conversation a week (either face to face with friends or on irc) with the words "the other night i was playing vendetta when...."
32) you can navigate to all the secret sectors just by using the skybox.
33) you confuse the n00bs by calling the weapons by the names of their 3.1 counterparts.

I love these, they're great.. i've said yes to far to many of them.
Dec 11, 2003 Suicidal Lemming link
34) You call trade goods widgets.
35) You wonder where the game would be today without the word Widget.
Dec 11, 2003 Pyro link
Mep, I meet all of Scuba's and SL's, too... My models aren't that great, though... :P
Dec 11, 2003 Spellcast link
ooo 2 more..
36) you consider VALK a swearword.
37) you long for vehicle mounted sunflares on your morning commute to work or school
Dec 11, 2003 Magus link
Damn, 34 got me.
Dec 11, 2003 Suicidal Lemming link
38) when your definition of exploit is rocket rammer\griefer\jackass.