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Round 8

2005-10-08T23:10:57Z

83.17.52.210: /* The history of Round8 is written down quickly */

=== The history of Round8 is written down quickly ===

[[ToT]] decided to continue the cooperation with [[FAnG]]. Together with [[Adelante]] we planned to make a triade for R8.
Fury claimed to go solo and Titans/LDK/Virus we had seen as main enemy for R8. They had both a lot good players in and a row of good partners what had made them to a great enemy.

Additionally I should remember that R8 was the first round since R3 which only allowed random gals and R8 was planned to become the last one in PA history.

ToT also opened an international wing in R8 which was leaded by bartgymnast. But it always was pretty small wing.
We had a really nice roundstart and all worked fine till Adelante became intern problems. Through the great power of Titans/LDK/Virus, our triade and Fury decided to cooperate for destroying them. Already 3 weeks after roundstart, Adelante disbanded and their several wings joined other allys. The Adelante Core BG joined Fury and so the new Triade became FAnG/Fury/ToT. But as longer the war went, more and more FAnG planets become closed for cheating and this became to a big intern problem for FAnG, moral went down, battles were lost. Some final trys to beat [[LDK]]/[[Titans]] in big battles failed too. At the end FAnG splitted, Rumad and hinch took controll over FAnG and kicked to old HCs. At the end (and after a lot of argues) ToT and FAnG canceled all agreements, so only Fury and ToT were left and fighting virus/titans/ldk.

And to be honest, we failed. through a lot lost battles and the disband from 2 of our allieds, we werent able to fight back.
At least we were able to protect our topplayers till the end.
Even the round ended much earlier than expected. Planetarion was bankrupt and servers went down.
So the round ended 3weeks before the originally planned date.
It seemed that PA was finally over....
''--[ToT][[Sonnenbomber]]''

{{stub}}=== The history of Round8 is written down quickly ===

[[ToT]] decided to continue the cooperation with [[FAnG]]. Together with [[Adelante]] we planned to make a triade for R8.
Fury claimed to go solo and Titans/LDK/Virus we had seen as main enemy for R8. They had both a lot good players in and a row of good partners what had made them to a great enemy.

Additionally I should remember that R8 was the first round since R3 which only allowed random gals and R8 was planned to become the last one in PA history.

ToT also opened an international wing in R8 which was leaded by bartgymnast. But it always was pretty small wing.
We had a really nice roundstart and all worked fine till Adelante became intern problems. Through the great power of Titans/LDK/Virus, our triade and Fury decided to cooperate for destroying them. Already 3 weeks after roundstart, Adelante disbanded and their several wings joined other allys. The Adelante Core BG joined Fury and so the new Triade became FAnG/Fury/ToT. But as longer the war went, more and more FAnG planets become closed for cheating and this became to a big intern problem for FAnG, moral went down, battles were lost. Some final trys to beat [[LDK]]/[[Titans]] in big battles failed too. At the end FAnG splitted, Rumad and hinch took controll over FAnG and kicked to old HCs. At the end (and after a lot of argues) ToT and FAnG canceled all agreements, so only Fury and ToT were left and fighting virus/titans/ldk.

And to be honest, we failed. through a lot lost battles and the disband from 2 of our allieds, we werent able to fight back.
At least we were able to protect our topplayers till the end.
Even the round ended much earlier than expected. Planetarion was bankrupt and servers went down.
So the round ended 3weeks before the originally planned date.
It seemed that PA was finally over....
''--[ToT][[Sonnenbomber]]''

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Round 13

2005-10-08T23:10:07Z

83.17.52.210:

Round 10

2005-10-08T22:21:43Z

83.17.52.210:

Round 10

2005-10-08T22:20:36Z

83.17.52.210: /* Overview */

=== Bugs===

One of the more amusing bugs in PaX was found by [[Gerbie]]. During the round, Gerbie had kept to his 3 first roids, and instead researched [[covert operations]] and [[waves]], working as a [[scanner]] for his alliance, [[Vengeance]].

The most popular covop was resource transfer, which basicly stole resources from target and gave them to the covopper. Now, Gerbie stole from the big and gave to the small (himself) and then donated all the resources to the [[galaxy fund]] (which he had control over, as the [[MoD]]). But as might be expected, the big didn't like this. As they could not hit him (as he was too small), they decided to hit his galaxy instead. Gerbie, the nice fellow he is, sent all his 3 ships, normally used for [[JGP]] scans, to defend a galaxymate. There, they actually shot down a few hostile fighters, giving Gerbie XP. However, the formula dictated that if you killed the ships of a bigger planet, then you would gain more [[XP]] than if you killed the ships of a smaller planet. Problem was, there was set no limit to this extra XP, and as the planet whose fighters got killed was 117 times bigger than Gerbie (in score) it resulted in a massive score-gain for Gerbie, effectivly putting him in 1st, where he remained for almost a day. Then the bug was fixed, and he was lowered somewhat, allthough still in the top 100.

But Gerbie didn't lose spirit of this. On several occasions during the round he regained #1 for a tick, by donating all the resources he had saved up in the galaxy fund to himself. The ultimate goal was to win the round, as a covopper. The problem was, this tactic offered little challange for Gerbie, and around mid-round he grew bored of the whole thing and stopped. No one knows what would have happened if he had kept on all round - perhaps he would have emerged the winner?

Another bug which caused a stir during the round was the ability to recall fleets whilst in transit. By leaving the planetarion window open, a player could click back multiple times until they reached the page before ever launching their fleet, doing this would cause the fleet to return home immediately. This bug was not discovered until Walken, a top 10 planet at the time, abused it while being fleetcaught. Instead of losing his fleet, he opted to abuse the bug and thus exposing it to the admins. The result of this was his planet being closed and the faulty code being fixed.

Some bugs that were reported by Caution:
The bug of giving fleets orders after they had launched was also discovered and reported on IRC immediatly.

He also discovered it was possible to start production orders without the needed research/cons completed by using a command such as http://jpaweb01.planetarion.com/production.pl?ship_12=100, which was also reported.
He also suspected that one would be able to use the same flaw to change the Message from the Commander and the Commanders, gal pic etc. He reported that also without checking if that bug actually existed.

A less important glitch that occasionally happened during the round was the ability to buy more ships than you could afford. This bug was seemingly caused by accidentally double clicking the buy button very quickly, resulting in a double order, and negative resources.