hey, phil, look at what I found on Ezekel's site (was finding the demos for an online friend who wants to try the game
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And now some humour:
Taken from the NHCS forum
You know you've played Outpost2 too much when...
You've played too much OP2 when:
by Philipu2001:
- You try to hack the vehicles(if only I could)
- Memorized every post on this bulletin board
- Memorized everyone's join date
- Lose friends when you talk about unidentified flying lynxes ("Must be one of 'em glitches I say")
- You talk about OP2 more than one-third of the time
- You can remember the details of when you first got Outpost 2, but can't remember the details for your wedding
- Someone tried to send you to a mental institution because you keep talking about CK9, betaray, knux, Ezekel, mrwherecanigetit, KevinAr18, philipu2001, and other members(if you want your name added, I'll do so in an edited post)
- You can quote this list and several other lists I've posted
- Your parrot says, "Blast 'em tigers to heck!"
- All your parents and relatives play OP2 at guru level
- You got made an OP2 coffie mug and it is used often
- You hack OP2 because some other people can
- You brag about your rank and posts(I'm in 4th, behind betaray, Ezekel, and KevinAr18)
- You know the full name of every person on the board, their place of birth, favorite birthday, best post, favorite novel, favorite pets, and favorite games
- You know how to use scouts to hold off an Eden invaision in Eden Population(I invented the method somewhere in this bulletin board)
- You hired a private investigator to find RunicRealms (edit update: for those new members to OUF who don't know, that's the name of the company that bought out the company that developed OP2)
- You've memorized the posts from the old NHCS forum
- You know philipu2001's vices
- I corrected you when you called me 'Phil'
- If you memorized every post from the stellarwave boards (I was 3rd or 4th there, 110 posts)
- You can belch the research tree
- Your favorite phrase is, "I think your panthers are a little, uppity."
- You wrote to the president so that he could convince Sierra to put their Outpost 2 website back on-line
- You've posted at my forum
- You added lyrics to the OP2 soundtrack
- You have 15 or more copies of OP2 on burned CDs at your house, just in case of fire, tornado, or flood
- You ever gone under the alias of Axen Moon, John Fesh, Aaron Smith, or Voran Bosjk(I've only gone under two of those aliases)
- You can whistle the soundtrack(that's me!)
- You have all the files needed for the CD on Floppy Diskettes
- You bought a CD burner so that you could make backup copies of Outpost 2
- You see selling Outpost 2 illegally as a crime punishable by death
- You are a guru at Outpost 1, 1.1, and 1.5
- You have several different installations of Outpost 2 for 'experimentation'
- You know what the J in my middle name stands for
- You were declared insane by the local copywrite office
- you are part of a Outpost 2 e-mail game
- You sent in Outpost 2 questions for Who Wants to be a Millionaire
- You tryed to create a Outpost 2 TV Trivia Show, and you were almost accepted by PAX for the midnight showing
even more by Philipu2001:
- Once you misquoted the Wizard of Oz when you said, "Lynxs, panthers, and tigers, oh my!"
- You've dreamt about OP2 one or more times(My number of OP2 dreams: 1, in that dream a bund of RPG Tigers blew up my command center and the left mouse button was jammed)
- You've had a premonition concearning a future game of OP2
- Instead of typing Outpost 2 in posts, you type OP2
- You found the source code for Outpost 2 in your friend's apartment(yet to happen for somebody)
- Usually the word lynx, panther, tiger, spider, or scorpion is in one of your families original colloquialisms
- You turn on the All Units/Structures Cheat just to make a Basic Lab to research Tiger Speed Modification
- You know where you keep all your OP2 CDs, but you can't remember what you ate for dinner
- You have taken plain rides to different places, just to meet some of the members of this board
- There was a fire at your house, and the first thing you got out was your OP2 CD, then your family
- Your tornado cellar has a generator, acomputer with only Windows 95 and Outpost 2 installed for when the power goes out, or there is an actual tornado, or hurricane
- You attempted, or succeeded at making a meteor defense on your roof
- You made the meteor defense, so that meteors wouldn't interupt your play of Outpost 2.
- You have a dinner tray at your computer
- You have a servant to fill that computer tray
- Somebody mugs you, but leaves your 'pocket copy' of OP2
- When someone tries to bribe you, you don't accept money, just hours to be played on multiplayer
- One of your siblings took what appeared to be all your OP2 CDs, but he didn't know the code for 'The Vault'
- When you play OP2, you remember to bring a change of clothes in the event you break 'The Most Consecutive Hours Playing Outpost 2 Record'
- You have an alter to the almighty OP2 development team
- You created a song to memorize the exe
- You can recreate all of the OP2 files, with 8 2-liter bottles of Vanilla Coke, 19 Ham Sandwiches, a keyboard cleaning kit, hex editor, and 48 hours
- You have your first OP2 CD in a display case
- In that same case, you have the hardback copy of your 200-paged book titled, "How I Fell in Love with Outpost 2"
- You find a prophecy in the Bible which you believe predicted Outpost 2
- Your toilet's clogged, every lightbulb is burnt out, you need new walls, your house lost 95% of it's value, but your computer is in tip-top shape
- You started a musuem for OP2
- You created an image for Betaray's :ickout:
- You have developed a wicked laugh for when your CC goes boom
- You first met your husband/wife on WON
- your honeymoon consisted of 48 strait non-stop hours of Outpost 2
- There are 935 of these honeymoons
- You've ever was at the side of the street with a sign, saying, "Will play Outpost 2 for food"
- You played OP2 so long, you didn't know about the eviction notice until a bulldozer wrecked your computer
- Then you sued the operater of the bulldozer and won 10 dollars
- Then you were sued by the bulldozer company for sueing the bulldozer operator and you lost
- Then you went over to a house of one of the members of this BB to live
- You run for president saying, "I invented Outpost 2"
- Then you are correcting publically by Dynamix
- Then you only get one vote
- You played OP2 instead of going to college
- You wrote a research paper on the difference of Star Wars and Outpost
- You publically protest anybody making a map for another game with 'Outpost' in it because it makes your searches longer
- You think I'm insane
- When something bad is said about KevenAr18, you say, "Don't bite the hand that gives you membership!"
- You go into statsis until Vulcan's Hammer hits
- You lead a cult called "The Masters"
- It takes you two days it get through this thread, then another two days for the updates and so on
- Your modified version of "women and children first" is "Outpost 2 CDs and computers first!"
- You lost a friend betting on a OP2 game
- You lost money betting on a OP2 game
- Your parents disown you for playing OP2 'excessively to the point of insanity'
- You want to marry or have married a lady with the first name of Emma or a man with the first name of Axen
Philipu2001 has still more to give us:
- You have this philosophy, "Life is like a laser lynx. You have you get all the upgrades before being blown to smitherines."
- Outpost 2 anonymous has 18 messages on your answering machine
- You cried for days when stellarwave went off-life. After five days, you notice you didn't read the part saying that StellarWave was bought out by RunicRealms
- You believe the eighth law of the Outpost Universe: sometime and somewhere, Outpost 3 will emerge
- You believe knux is 'The One'
- You then call yourself 'Morpheus'
- Then you realize you prefered 'Voran Bosjk'
- You think that the people who post their ideas for Outpost 3 are complete geniuses
- And then someone corrected you
- You can remember the date and time of your first post, but can't remember your own birthday
- You think those with 100 posts or above, "Prophets"
- 200, "Disciples"
- 300, "Messiahs"(lucky KevenAr18)
- You know the names of each person involved in making Outpost 2 and their speciic roles in its development
- When you are not playing OP2, your index figure keeps on doing clicking motion
- When you are not playing OP2, you then think someone almost succeeded in hipnotising you
- Then you shout out the door, "Nice try!"
- And then you learn someone did try to do that
- But you were too busy watching the screen
- You made a lifesize replica of a GeoCon, using clay and duplo
- And won an art award
- You know the number of your psychiatrist because he keeps on calling you at your parent's request, and you never answer
- You added a hard drive to your answering maching and your coffiemaker
- You made a savant to 'tidy up the house'
- You stole C-3PO from LucusFiles and made him look like Kraft
- You were put in jail for having the game music too loud
- When a girlfriend or boyfriend asked out it was him/her or OP2, you chose OP2
- And you never had guilt
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by Ezekel (that's me)
...You see your walls covered in a purple computer display (the blight).
...Your dreams go along the lines of being a Savant.
...Your family blew up the house to try and get your attention away from your computer screen.
...You only eat waffles if they are shaped either in the Plymouth insignia or the Eden insignia.
...You start to respond to the name Axen Moon (or for girls Emma).
...You call your computer Frost.
...You put your computer+screen+keyboard into a savant-shaped box.
...You sent in Outpost questions to "the people vs..."
...Your questions are read on "the people vs..." - thats me
...You utter phrases such as "not if a meteor had hit the last agridome of New Terra".
...You believe you are a member of Eden/Plymouth.
...You start wearing t-shirts, trousers and pyjamas (etc...) with OP2 vehicles printed on them.
...You go to a party, and get a bit tipsy and start shouting "the blight is approaching!". - my mate did that
...You have a whole harddrive dedicated to OP2.
...You have built a lynx with lego and a panther with mechano/steel tech. - I did that
...You hijack a car factory, change the designs so that you get a working laser lynx (complete with cup holder, for the coffee needed to keep you awake for OP2)
...You build a to-scale CC 150%of a life size model.
...You build a real, working CC.
...You utter "orbital insertion complete" for no apparent reason. - me again
...You program a virus that has a earthworker busy building pipes between folders/files.
...You have a selfmade OP2 screensaver. - I had this on my old computer, I still got to get it onto this one.
...You have folders all over desktop saying things like "devol" "maps.vol" "op2demopostoriginal" etc...
...You have The Outpost poster that came in the Outpost box copied, and used as a wallpaper for your room.
...You have a laser beam in your doorway, that when broken announces "Savant series computer activated".
...You respect the game so much you go out of your way to make sure words like Savant, Eden and Plymouth are capitalised
...You threw a brick at your computer screen when you recieved the email/WON message/Sierra webpage saying that Sierra stopped supporting OP2.
...When your screen is fixed, you cause Sierra's server to crash due to so many emails asking them to re-support the game. - I did that the moment I found it out (Jan 2000) twice over . they then answered by saying if I didn't stop sending them emails they'd ignore me and my emails.
...You go out of your way to improve ratings for the game.
...You have pictures of all the ppl who gave it a bad preview, and you use them as dartboard targets.
...Having done the last one, you find that simply by thinking of these ppl you can get a bullseye in a darts match from 50M.
...You have a CD drive dedicated to holding the OP2 CD.
...In you biology exams, when you recieved a question about the virus you had done a case study in class on, you spent the whole time writing about the affects of the Blight and how it was possibly created.
...You start to write graffiti on walls that says things like "I am the tiger king, your puny lynxes shall be destroyed!!!"
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By CK9
-You stop everything you're doing just to get any updates.
-You stop playing all the other games you like because you have spent the last year trying to play one person. (I have a strange mind and this never happened)
-You see the screensaver after playing for an hour or two and refuse to touch anything because "the computer needs sleep"
-You spend your whole night coming up with a foolproof way to penitrate anyones defences with little or no trouble.
-You create this thread to see how many people will actually respond.(sorry)
-You end up having to run away before anyone reads your post
this is a piece of forum history that I thought had been destroyed
