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

[jinglesassy]

When you hit 10,000 hours in orbiter no seriously i keep track of my flight hours.

 

[dgatsoulis]

When flytandem says this: "But in the middle of the night I woke up with an idea. So elegant. And it worked leaving between 100 and 150 m/s spare deltav."

And you try to find a way to do it better!

 

[Aeadar]

You spend two hours fiddling with an excel spreadsheet so you can work out your Soyuz landing time a month ahead and planning an orbit adjust burn so you can land in daylight.

:rofl:

Spreadsheet in one window and 'current state' scenario file in another trying to make sure your 'astronaut roster' is up to date after your last mission.

 

[Carmen A]

When following an 'object' you turn on the dock MFD to visual mode and project data to the HUD so you can monitor said 'object's' vector and relative velocity.

 

[jedimaster1214]

When following an 'object' you turn on the dock MFD to visual mode and project data to the HUD so you can monitor said 'object's' vector and relative velocity.

That's not being addicted, that's just knowing how to use all of the available tools in Orbiter.

 

[Carmen A]

I use docking mfd in real life too

and when sleeping I set dock target to "pillow" and use VTOL mfd to ensure i land on target.

 

[kevin580]

when you wear an spacesuit while using UMMU

 

[Carmen A]

I have undocked from the pillow station to spy on the OMP server using remote chat at 2am in the morning.

 

[marooder86]

When you hit 10,000 hours in orbiter no seriously i keep track of my flight hours.

OMG. It's almost fourteen months of nonstop fying.

 

[Spacethingy]

When you watch WALL-E and wonder how much Delta-V the Axiom has...

...and when you then try to calculate how much delta-v WALL-E would have with the fire extinguisher!

 

[Bonanza123d]

You are SOO addicted when you post in this topic.

You are able to do calculations on the board at school and you teacher thinks you are a genius (So guilty), and you explain it to the class and they applaud you.

 

[Stevodoran]

When you use orbiter as your conversation starter in school.

When you are at your cousins wedding the priest says ''you may now kiss the bride'' you immediately shout out ''Rodger Houston kissing the bride''

 

[Grover]

you use your general orbiter knowledge to do a reality-check on your answers in a physics exam

[i was asked to work out the radius of hubble's orbit, given only time period, mass of earth and gravitational constant, and was happy when i got 6.99M meters]

 

[jimblah]

When your family complains that you never spend "quality" time with them any more.
When you get divorce papers from your wife's attorney.
When you start having waking dreams from too much sleep deprivation.
When you can't stop thinking about Orbiter and it doesn't really bother you.
When you get honked at in traffic because you're preoccupied.
Serious attempts at composing Orbiter poetry with a thesaurus and a dictionary could be a bad sign if its not like you.
Neglecting personal hygiene and the lack of desire to fix your own meals.
A sudden and prolonged decrease in libido corresponding to the time you started experimenting with Orbiter.
If any of the symptoms in this thread persist, please seek the advice of a physician. Do not drive or operate heavy equipment when you first start using Orbiter until you understand how Orbiter affects you.

 

[Ghostrider]

If you need to understand how Orbiter affects you, can't you get an MFD to do that?

 

[Kveldulf]

you explain it to the class and they applaud you.

Really? That just got me labelled as a nerd. I was, and still am, but thats not the point :ninja:

 

[Carmen A]

Really? That just got me labelled as a nerd. I was, and still am, but thats not the point :ninja:

Since I got involved with OMP alpha testing my RL project management skills improved quite a lot.

When you can't stop thinking about Orbiter and it doesn't really bother you.

It doesn't. "The Probe" has brought only good things to a society that lacks creativity and ambition. Because we have no space program. Orbiter is necessary to make people reach for the stars

 

[Bonanza123d]

Really? That just got me labelled as a nerd. I was, and still am, but thats not the point :ninja:

Yea. Its true. They were surprised alright. They thought i was the next Albert Einstein. :lol: Of course you would think I am for doing so!

 

[bande]

when you find yourself not parking your car anymore... but DOCKING it in your garage!!

 

[Rtyh-12]

when you find yourself not parking your car anymore... but DOCKING it in your garage!!

So you mean I'm not supposed to hear those bangs when I get home? Oh . That explains a looot.

Disclaimer: I don't own a car... yet.