You know you've played simcity too long when...

[tankmank 853]

When all the coal in the world has gone to make electricity for your computer

[cityhawk 12]

...when you start noticing the very little things in a city (like a crime scene).

[Skyfire2275 23]

...when you bulldoze your whole city and start again because the whole thing wasn't working.

[owenluby 1]

... when i am running out of ideas for a downtown

[amal81 3]

...when I get frustrated at trying to achieve low crime at the airport.

[Skyfire2275 23]

...when I know it is impossible to have low crime on a large lot and never even try to achieve this.

[The_Family_Guy 2]

...when you become an urban planner, and when you build cities, they include absolutely no curved roads.

[raul39 0]

...when my mom shouts to me saying "RAUL, YA APAGA ESA P*@%!& COMPUTADORA" for the 1,000,000th time.

[Skyfire2275 23]

...when it crashes 10 times in one day.

[cityhawk 12]

...when the SC4 CD is VERY hot.

[amal81 3]

...when My SC4 CD looks a lot like scratch(ed) disk...

[Skyfire2275 23]

...when I start getting mad at it.

[Vigilante1987 180]

...when the SC4 disk has been in one of my drives for over a year straight.

[cityhawk 12]

...when you're the only one in the house (and maybe the neighborhood) that's still awake at *insert early morning hour here*

[Skyfire2275 23]

...when you forget about your real problems due to pressing issues in your current city.

[amal81 3]

...when my planning advisor keeps telling me how great I am doing my job.

[raul39 0]

... when I forget to go to school the next day.

[bwatterud 7]

When you need ten Alienware computers running simultaniously to run a single city.

When you start posting ways to tell when you've played simcity too long on a Simtropolis forum.

Originally Posted by amal81

...when my park menu has too many unused icons...but too lazy or occupied with the game to actually do anything about it.quote>

That has already happened with both my park menu, and my Misc. Transit menu.

[cityhawk 12]

...when you spend most of your game time trying to get to stuff in the menus and figuring out where to place them.

[Skyfire2275 23]

...when you still cannot crow a certain building but won't concede that it is impossible.

[amal81 3]

...when your STEX downloads exceeds 1GB.

[raul39 0]

...when my city exceeds 100,000 people in one day.

btw, my stex uploads have alredy exceeded 1GB.^

[Skyfire2275 23]

...when you fall asleep in front of your computer.

[iamthouth 0]

...and then go straight back to playing as soon as you wake up......

[nealos101 20]

...When you start counting the glitches

[amal81 3]

...when you can write lengthy and detailed manuals and tutorials about everything except BATting.

[MiniMark 7]

...when you start talking like one of your "My Sim's"

[Merauder 0]

... when you get on your bike and scope around town to create an exact duplicate of it in SC4

[bwatterud 7]

When the disk melts in the drive.

[aznfrontman 0]

....when you stop playing sc4(and you said that's enough for the day), log onto Simtropolis and find some interesting stuff, and then start playing again with the new downloads...