You know you're addicted to Orbiter when...

[ar81]

"If your eyes aren't bleeding, you're not Orbiting enough." - James.Denholm

 

[James.Denholm]

^ When you are quoted by one of the forum's major members.

When you only stop orbiter to eat, and sleep

Or to feed my rabbits (Guilty)

When your pets die from starvation, because you just have to get that TEI burn perfect...

 

[Kaito]

When you start talking to yourself, pretending you are a Space Tourist Pilot (yes, i did do that)

When you yell at HQ when the TransferMFD screws up in the middle of your TLI burn (Guilty, and yes, that did happen. Was p*ssed cuz then when i tried to re-enter over the cape, i ended up exploding...poor passengers).

When you KNOW you talk to much about orbiter, but you continue to do it anyways (guilty)

 

[ar81]

When ...

You feel uninspired and making an addon inspires you
Your dream was to make Habana tile to land there and you forget who is ruling that territory.
Your dream is to cover Earth with surface tiles.
Your favorite drink: OrbiTea
You can anticipate the intentions of an orbinaut just by watching the first 10 seconds
You own Orbiter Technical Manuals and blueprint Schematics of all Orbiter vessels but you no longer need them
When seeing a psychiatrist, you're afraid of getting a prescription that would keep you away from orbiter for a while.
You have 4 TVs at home to play orbiter with multiple monitors 24 hours a day non-stop (future of Orbiter?)
You remembered the satellite deployment codes without reading your notes.
You've learned astrophysics playing Orbiter and you pretend to be a scientist among your friends at school without having formal studies or a degree.
After breaking your neighbour's window, instead of just running away, you try "Slingshot Maneuver" around the house to escape
You're hosting a conference, your response to any questions is: RTM

 

[astrosammy]

Your dream is to cover Earth with surface tiles.

That was also one of my dreams. But I only made a big part of europe that needed 30 seconds to load :lol:.

 

[Kaito]

You've learned astrophysics playing Orbiter and you pretend to be a scientist among your friends at school without having formal studies or a degree.

haha, so true

 

[ar81]

When you think Orbiter is your Second Life
when you crashed your car and wonder why it collided with other car mesh since life has no Meshland installed.
when you wake up in the morning and wonder why local time is not expressed in MJD format in the clock.
when you travel and look for F4 key to propagate time to reach your destination in no time.
when you start to feel like a great pilot even if you haven't traveled by plane.
when you see a salesman orbiting your house and attept to deorbit by knocking the door.
when you want to hover your camera around to see if your keys are inside the DG you pilot.
when you are at the pub and don’t dance because you did not learn because you played Orbiter.
when you sitting on a chair at a public place and look for the joystick and the MFDs in front of you.
when you tell your boss you couldn’t get to work in time because you had some extra minutes of Orbiter...
when you want to reach the sun.
when you complain about the fact that you can't prospect other planets to find gold to face world crisis.
when you start to tell a friend a story and they interrupt you to ask “Wait, this is Orbiter you’re talking about, right?”
when you say ‘Hail the probe’ and someone thinks you belong to a strange sect. (Hail the probe!)
when you apply for a job at Disney as you think you are a professional animator because you have made a few Orbiter animations.
when you are looking at the tiles on the wall and think that it is real life texturing.
when you are shocked that you actually have to pay for real spacecraft.
when you are asked to go out for a drink and you reply: ‘Not yet, I have Orbiter running’
when you walk into a clothes shop and ask if they have an EVA spacesuit.
when you buy a sofa and wonder if you could build a DG cockpit with it.
when you suddenly wake up in the middle of the street and realize about the fact that it is not Alysimia city on Mars.
when you want to scratch your ears and suddenly discover you are not a mesh.
when you when looking at a woman wonder who animated her.
When you wonder when is any Orbiter real life festival going to take place.
When you walk up to a woman and flatter her saying "you have a great landing gear".
When you are constantly frustrated at not being able to have an external view of yourself.
When you refer to your car as your vessel.
When you wonder why there are no beacon lights on the streets when you park your car in your garage.
When you wonder how much processing power reality has, as youdo not see low FPS in real life.
When you think of a parking space as landing pad.
When you stop buying anything to buy hardware to play Orbiter.
When you invited people home and suddenly tell them in real life that you have to urgently leave them for a few minutes to pilot your craft and land your craft.
When you refer to changing clothes as changing personal skin.

 

[TSPenguin]

When you laugh at the local bus driver because his ship only has one MFD.
When you tell him it is OK because his ship is UMMU capable.

 

[ar81]

when your skin becomes so pale that you look sickly because you stay inside of your house playing orbiter so much, or you have a tan from the flourecent lights neer your computer.

Do you play with ultraviolet fluorescent???? :huh::blink:

 

[Kaito]

When you've thought about changing your career choice because of Orbiter (yes, i have thought about it)

 

[Zatnikitelman]

When you actually change your career choice because of Orbiter! (yes, I've done it!)

 

[Kveldulf]

When you see a bird landing on a power line, you immediately think that it's approaching too fast, and should break farther away from the target.

 

[Woo482]

when the first game you play after staying up till 4am (GMT) to format your computer is orbiter
(and wear can I get a spell checker for fire fox 3 ?)

 

[Talon1]

When you stay up 24/7 just to finsh an addon for orbiter(quarter guilty)
When you stay up 24/7 to pilot a Delta Glider from Earth to Pluto

 

[Quick_Nick]

Do you play with ultraviolet fluorescent???? :huh::blink:

It adds realism to flying through a radiation belt! :lol:

 

[astrosammy]

When you're outside and see a plane and think: "Is that the Delta Glider?"

 

[Ghostrider]

When you keep hearing about those "McCain" and "Obama" and wonder what the hell they are since you can't target them in TransX.

 

[TSPenguin]

When you're outside and see a plane and think: "Is that the Delta Glider?"

When you see a plane and compliment them on the cold reentry before wondering which Delta Glider it is.

 

[n72.75]

Do you play with ultraviolet fluorescent???? :huh::blink:

no just compact mini twists.

which goes to show how much wile i spent in bront of my computer

 

[Missioncmdr]

When you're outside and see a plane and think: "Is that the Delta Glider?"

When you go outside, see a plane, and it is a Delta Glider. (Hallucinating from too much Orbiter apparently.)