F-Crew
Background
F-Crew was founded by Bazz, Mike and Wakey back in round 1 while sitting in the local McDonalds. Bazz and Mike had just been introduced to Planetarion by Wakey and together they quickly realised they weren't the only ones at their 6th Form College to be playing this new game. So F-Crew was born with the goal to serve these people, although it quickly became an alliance to serve the whole Farnborough Community.
The alliances turning point came at the start of our second week with the application of Seventh to join our ranks. While he wasnt from Farnborough he was from just down the road and from here on the requirement to be a resident of Farnborough was dropped. This obviously saw a change in F-Crews aims, these new aims somewhat mirrored those of IPC's which quickly led to the two alliances forming a friendship that would pretty much last until IPC disbanded its PA operations in Round 10.5, after playing that round with their members under the F-Crew tag.
Rounds
F-Crew has had a turbulant history, from its glory days where it was fighting tooth and nail with Concordium to the dark days after P2P and pre-PAX. Below is a brief description of some of the important events in F-Crew History.
Round 1
When F-Crew entered the game all the main alliances present in the game were based round the Clusters. Some of them were starting to but F-Crew were one of the first alliances to start up without a cluster alliance at its base.
Life started slowly for F-Crew with our requirement for members having to live in Farnborough holding us back but once Seventh was accepted and our rules relaxed the alliance sprung into life. By the end of the round we were pushing 300 members.
On the war front the round was fairly quite. There were a couple of small squirmishes but nothing significant.
Round 2
With the membership numbers at a level that was beyond anything that was envisioned a new membership structure was introduced. While Bazz, Mike and Wakey remained in HC positions the rest of the alliance was placed into wings in an attempt to make things easier to manage and to allow the alliance to work more effectively.
Each wing consisted of between 18 and 22 members with a Team Leader overseeing them. The Team Leaders were :-
Admiral Thrawn, Neophyte, Seventh, Smif, der'Vow, Rekordze, Brows, ^0neEye, Phi, Pelleon, MasterJodoKast, Rinoa, Dearth Vader, TEDGE, _PUG_, Maximillon, Goulash, Script, Zoblefu, Morrigu, Voodoo_Pigeon and Allanon
The makeup of the teams was fairly complex. The teams were split firstly by mission focus with half the teams being defence based and half attack based. These groups were then split further so that some were “daytime” teams and others were “nightime” teams. Additionally each group had a couple of “Special Forces” and these teams could be raised at a moments notice. Assignment to the teams started by placing the more experienced players into the teams to provide the core with the new and inexperienced players then being assigned to the relevant teams.
Round 2 started with a bang. Almost immediately a small but organised alliance called the Sulla alliance started to attack our members. With a new feature of Alliance Tags being introduced for Round 2 it made the Intel side of the game extremely simple and the new wing system in place the threat was quickly neutralised.
War with Concordium
The dust had barely settled when a major war appeared on the horizon. Suddenly F-Crew noticed an unusual amount of incoming Concordium. With no official declarion of war from coming from Concordium, Wakey confronted Jonka and was informed it wasn’t an alliance attack but some members doing their own thing. When the attacks continued Wakey twice more confronted Jonka who again stated it was not an official attack. Finally on the 4th time of asking Jonka admitted that Concordium were at war with F-Crew
A chance encounter between Bazz and the high command of the newly formed UXF alliance made it clear that F-Crew weren’t the only alliance that Concordium had declared war on and the two alliances started discussions about how they could work together to fight a common enemy.
Concordium’s structure was the main roadblock in any plans to fight them. Not only did anyone attacking them have the main alliance to deal with but they would also have to deal with their Internal Wing Legion, their junior wing WaCjr and their strong allies TE. It was decided that if there was to be any chance of success then additional alliances would need brought into the fold.
Upon approaching long term allies IPC and New Dawn a parallel plot to take down Concordium was uncovered. This was being organized by Zeus in an attempt to liven the game up. The two plans were merged and invites were extended to BlueTuba, hirr, SK and Rinoa's Eclipse. This left all the perceived top alliances but BlueTuba who declined the invite, on the brink of war. There was a lot of debate about inviting Fury who hadn’t yet shown their potential and initially they weren’t included in the preparations although at the end they were invited to attack TE in an attempt to prevent them retaliating on behalf of Concordium.
Round 3 & 4
Round 5 to 9
Round 10
Round 11
14 SWaRM 36670 77 1633343 125767486 15 Insomnia 33256 43 2874288 123594419 16 DEADLY 32606 49 2320091 113684470 17 [F-Crew] 29917 60 1572203 94332235 18 SiN 23423 34 1845936 62761830 19 SU 18316 64 827907 52986085 20 ARS 15538 48 1044141 50118797
Round 12
16 Coven 28438 65 94774359 17 [Pr0nStars] 22972 18 86759674 18 [APA] 25971 87 73235060 19 [F-Crew] 21609 62 72361386 20 Bruderschaft 17508 45 58558603 21 Please Join me! 16038 55 49793709 22 G.O.A.T 15892 47 48271167
Round 13
12 ToT 50777 40 246846155 13 Vengeance 51343 75 215906018 14 [APA] 50814 75 199886245 15 [F-Crew] 51064 92 183500827 16 ROCK 39480 55 160812804 17 Coven 38268 75 146546939 18 hirr 12074 29 68183347
Round 14
3 Reunion 81358 75 384074614 4 Tides of Fire 82823 87 334205101 5 xVx 58412 78 243749156 6 [F-crew] 48828 86 211129844 7 Vengeance 45759 53 209010433 8 TGV 46545 52 176225444 9 HowlingRain 40326 70 170165468
Round 15
Alliance Rankings
6 Subh 46917 68 223365900 7 Vengeance 51422 68 213446750 8 TGV 46204 70 207211143 9 [F-crew] 50428 89 205634083 10 Howling Rain 37691 64 170212866
Members In Top100 Planets
# X Y Z Ruler Planet Race Size Value Score XP Nick Alliance 34 8 2 10 Maker Nitropentaerythrite Xan 1391 3073283 7992323 81984 ^Miksu^ F-Crew 95 14 1 2 Hertogjan Arcen Cat 1115 1084332 5907792 80391 HertogJan F-Crew
Round 16
Alliance Rankings
3 Subh 60 46,228 260,077,495 4,334,625 770 4 Vengeance 68 42,921 259,051,829 3,809,586 631 5 F-Crew 78 42,148 258,277,410 3,311,249 540 6 Angels 57 60,066 255,461,139 4,481,774 1,054 7 NewDawn 53 41,328 249,044,293 4,698,949 780
Members In Top100 Planets
# X Y Z Ruler Planet Race Size Value Score XP Nick Alliance 20 10 4 8 Shadow The Past Zik 1,976 7,829,560 10,759,300 48,829 Pglee F-Crew 68 8 5 7 Dutch Wagenbach The Barn Ter 489 1,001,033 7,454,933 107,565 TSP F-Crew
Round 17
Members In Top100 Planets
# X Y Z Nick Alliance Race Size Score 37 10 9 2 Paulioski F-Crew Zik 3,652 6,272,070 49 8 4 9 Rocko F-Crew Zik 2,042 5,613,216 62 16 3 16 GaNjA F-Crew Xan 1,977 5,209,912
Round 18
Members In Top100 Planets
# X Y Z Nick Alliance Race Size Score 97 1 6 11 Berns [F-Crew] Zik 2,428 3,774,331
Round 19
Members In Top100 Planets
# X Y Z Nick Alliance Race Size Score 100 10 3 5 blizzzardstorm [F-Crew] Ter 1,655 5,853,111
Round 22
Members In Top100 Planets
# X Y Z Nick Alliance Race Size Score 68 11 8 4 Entropy [F-Crew] Zik 1,374 4,490,285
Round 23
Members In Top100 Planets
# X Y Z Nick Alliance Race Size Score 65 10 6 3 Smokeh [F-Crew] Etd 1,614 4,414,441
Round 25
Alliance Rankings
8 TGV 37412 51 173,851,533 9 Hidden Agenda 43384 60 164,784,606 10 Orbit 32975 60 159,963,337 11 F-crew 38154 59 134,679,030
Round 26
Alliance Rankings
9 Orbit 42746 66 178,005,454 10 Hidden Agenda 39042 67 164,914,551 11 Vengeance 36461 57 162,619,290 12 F-Crew 42365 62 145,173,189
Round 27
Alliance Rankings
8 Hidden Agenda 50882 74 176,555,980 9 ASS 43689 66 163,683,710 10 VsNoX 46839 53 159,527,942 11 F-Crew 36823 72 145,912,563
Round 28
Alliance Rankings
7 TGV 29610 45 135,634,093 8 Hidden Agenda 34149 60 134,990,141 9 Redemption 30826 51 117,117,841 10 F-Crew 30339 45 107,120,723
Members In Top100 Planets
# X Y Z Nick Alliance Race Size Score 52 9 2 2 Shaz [F-Crew] Zik 2,559 6,288,375 58 1 7 12 Imperial [F-Crew] Xan 2,126 6,085,804
Round 29
Alliance Rankings
10 ASS 38072 59 152,583,709 11 Hidden Agenda 24045 38 96,175,333 12 Hells Fury 24837 49 83,552,180 13 F-Crew 19063 35 66,859,945
Round 30
Alliance Rankings
11 Hidden Agenda 31046 50 162,868,150 12 ASS 20873 41 141,592,790 13 Factory 29165 44 135,159,953 14 F-Crew 26566 37 128,914,003
Members In Top100 Planets
# X Y Z Nick Alliance Race Size Score 45 9 1 11 Imperial [F-Crew] Etd 2,945 11,926,033
Round 31
Alliance Rankings
5 ROCK 52765 83 182,318,871 6 Hidden Agenda 46019 65 150,175,753 7 F-Crew 34558 68 138,775,450 8 DLR 24101 36 135,646,124 9 Orbit 31568 39 121,641,203
Round 32
F-Crew decided to take round 32 off.
Round 33
Alliance Rankings
7 Conspiracy 42999 52 3,134,664 163,002,568 8 ASS 31743 60 2,520,328 151,219,683 9 DLR 36678 32 4,064,260 130,056,332 10 F-Crew 31186 46 2,651,971 121,990,666
Members In Top100 Planets
# X Y Z Nick Alliance Race Size Score 20 5 1 7 Smokeh [F-Crew] Zik 2,098 7,549,562
Community
F-Crew Meets
Meet #1
Meet #2
Meet #3
The 3rd F-Crew Meet took place at Thorpe Park in the last week of July 2002. In attendance was Wakey, Mike, Pelleon, DoUrden, Bazz and Eddie. Below is Eddies Account of that day
Did You Know?
- The shortened name of F-Crew didnt appear until Round 3 and was a product of an alliance-wide compitition to make the alliance name edgier.
- F-Crew is the longest running alliance having been created in Round 1.
- F-Crew is also the only alliance to have played every round uninterrupted.
- Wakey is one of the few Round 1 veterans to have only been a member of a single alliance.
- Wakey still hasn't finished the new F-Crew site
- F-crew broke HC Cm's curse whereby every alliance before disbanded within 1 round of him joining
- F-Crew has been the subject of 3 stories by its former BC Zimra. F-Crew-Story-1 , F-Crew-Story-2 and F-Crew-Story-3
- F-Crew now has its own Facebook Page where Past, present and potential members can get together and swap stories, pictures and bodily fluids if they wish.
List of Recruitment threads
Round 10.5, Round 11, Round 12, Round 13, Round 14, Round 15, Round 16, Round 17, Round 18, Round 19, Round 20, Round 21, Round 22, Round 23, Round 24, Round 25, Round 26, Round 27, Round 28, Round 29, Round 30, Round 31 Round 33 Round 34
- Alliances
- Alliances:Round 1
- Alliances:Round 2
- Alliances:Round 3
- Alliances:Round 4
- Alliances:Round 5
- Alliances:Round 6
- Alliances:Round 7
- Alliances:Round 8
- Alliances:Round 9
- Alliances:Round 9.5
- Alliances:Round 10
- Alliances:Round 10.5
- Alliances:Round 11
- Alliances:Round 12
- Alliances:Round 13
- Alliances:Round 14
- Alliances:Round 15
- Alliances:Round 16
- Alliances:Round 17
- Alliances:Round 18
- Alliances:Round 19
- Alliances:Round 20
- Alliances:Round 21
- Alliances:Round 22
- Alliances:Round 23
- Alliances:Round 24
- Alliances:Round 25
- Alliances:Round 26
- Alliances:Round 27
- Alliances:Round 28
- Alliances:Round 29
- Alliances:Round 30
- Alliances:Round 31
- Alliances:Round 33
- Alliances:Round 34
- Alliances:Round 35
