Capture The Flag

First Announcement concerning CTF

Posted at 10:51 GMT on Thursday 9th June 2005

Havoc
Havoc starts today at 21:00 GMT.

Most of you who have played Planetarion in previous rounds will be aware of Havoc. Typically, we run the game for a week after the final rankings have been taken from the game. With resource and asteroid boosts, this time is used by planets to launch fun attacks retaliating again persistent hostile incomings or perhaps against their HC.
However, this round things are going to be different. We are going to be playing Capture the Flag. How, I hear you ask, does CTF translate to the Planetarion Universe? Here are the details:
Each galaxy will be given a Special Roid. This will be their galaxy flag. If you're not aware what Special Roids are, then ask around; they've been a new addition for this round.
Galaxies will then battle it out to steal as many flags as they can, whilst defending any flags they have retrieved themselves. At the end of CTF havoc, galaxies will be ranked according to the flags they have at that point in time.
Each flag is worth 1 point. However, if a galaxy holds its own flag, that flag is worth 5 points.
Now not only will this be a fun alteration to the usual Planetarion game play, to win your galaxy will have to function as a unit... Your alliance is of no use to you any more.
As incentive to win, we have prizes up for grabs. The top three scoring planets in the winning galaxy will each receive a free Planetarion credit for use in any main game round.
You can keep track of the Flag Asteroids on the Universe Misc page and a galaxy ranking for CTF will appear on the same page soon.
This is the first time anything like this has been attempted, so we're more than happy to hear your feedback and suggestions. You can contact us on IRC (#support), via email or telepathy.
So. Good luck. Happy roiding.

Second Announcement concerning CTF

Havoc has now finished. Congratulations to those who took part in our first ever Capture the Flag event. Congratulation go to Galaxy 5:3 who have won the event by capturing 12 flags, one of which was their own, giving them a total of 16 CTF points. The three winners credits go to 5:3:9, 5:3:21 and 5:3:8 for having the highest scores in the galaxy.

A log of the interview with the winning galaxy can be found here.

Due to the success of our havoc Capture the Flag, the upcoming speed game will be based on the same principle. This CTF speed game will take place on the 18th and 19th of June and will be a free event.
The setup will be as follows:
- Modified CTF with new scoring system
- 3 minute ticks.
- Free credit given out on signup in order to upgrade
- Player numbers capped at 800 upgraded planets
- Accounts that have not utilised the free credit to upgrade will be deleted before tick start
- 40 random galaxies
- 4 playing sessions, each of 7 hours:
+ From 08:00 to 15:00 and 16:00 to 23:00 each day (All times in GMT)
- Ship stats will be modified slightly to correct some of the problems from Round XIII
- All planets start with:
+ All researches completed
+ 2 of each construction
+ 50,000,000 of each type of resource
+ 1,000 of each type of asteroid

Signups for our first Capture the Flag speed game will open at 12:00 GMT tomorrow, the 16th June. If you wish to take part, we hope you enjoy the game and, as ever, the best of luck to you.

Winners of the CTF Speedgame

The CTF speedgame was won by the 4.3 galaxy.