You my friend are in the "addicted" stage, I remember being there about a year ago, logging in at least 10 times a day to do nothing, soon if not yet you will be in the "imagination" stage where you imagine yourself playing this 10 years from now and being the veteran everyone looks up to. After that stage you will probably go into the "finding out" stage where you find out this game isn't going to last much longer because the main developers ditched us. And that's when you reach my current stage "wait it out a bit longer" stage, where i dont want to quit and lose my team yet, in fear of the fact that soon this game will develop into a multi million user game and then when you create your team you will be the noob.
I know I missed many other stages cause i skipped through them and I also didn't start from the beginning, feel free to share the stages you all have been through, since we have nothing else to do and we're all waiting for the game to develop.