Round 14:PAWiki News

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It's over, folks. Ticks closing to and end. A jolt of pretentious coolness sweeping #planetarion in anticipation of a brief celebration for those whom took part and not least the winner's of R14. The tapping of thousands of fingers on keyboards throughout the world, while it could substitute for a raving enthusiastic applause it doesn't even come close to the real thing. For the #1 planet, alliance and galaxy from the ever kind PAWiki admins I give you the closest thing to the real thing itself. For all the wanna-be winner's in 1up behind elviz, better luck next time, suckers.

Respect to all the new players battling it out in the cold universe amidst all the merciless roid runs. Of all the alliances I'll have to say well played to Tides of Fire, xVx, F-Crew, Vengeance and The Galactic Vikings. A special mention for the crazy G-II players; nothing quite like being offered defence channel infoes from a G-II player (myself being the GC) while noting on Sandmans that he's the only one listed in the whole alliance.

Is there a way to briefly sum up R14? Black comedy comes to mind. All the fluctuation in the alliance front had good comedy value, yet made it easier for the hardened mushroom staff to wrap up the round. Blocking with their flak alliance being #1 from start to finish kind of says it all about the weak opposition they had this round. LCH. Please. Disband. Also, could Sid please step up and give some information to all the "HCs" of other alliances on how to steer real no-nonsense alliances? The kids don't get it.

Until we meet again in another life I bid you all farewell.

-- GC of the Elysium Devils (7:8)


The previous events combined with New Dawn's inability to muster more thought into PA than a blind Alzheimer's patient lead to a predictable outcome: another 1up victory. This means the winners of PaX rounds to-date are 1up, Elysium and eXilition. There is also the half-round played in utter bad taste by stagnating the game from tick0. FanG belongs to the list too.

I can only wonder: where have the ruthless alliance leaders with balls of steel disappeared? Seems the braindrain has been so severe that the current batch of alliance leaders are a mockery to the very title they hold. It's a real shame. Here's a few excuses grabbed from AD (NOTE! edited for anonymity); "it was Sid's propaganda! His jedi mindtricks were too much", "since WP wasn't around... surely someone had to try and fence it out?", "we NAPed the #1 alliance to avoid incomings while recruiting past them, but still unfortunately failed. To show what a disgrace we truly are, we will uphold the NAP to make the remaining month totally uninteresting!", "i am against blocking, static NAPs and the such... however, if its to our advantage, I would definitely say its out of the question to break such agreements. Totally unhonorable." etc..

Fracked up.

The Man in Red has been busy as alliances continue to fall. Hydra took a trip to the otherside with Insomnia being left crippled due an internal dispute between SkyHead's battlegroup called Demolition Squad and the Insomnia staff (more comedy in the follow-up). A battlegroup raised to an alliance couldn't contain a battlegroup on a leash *shrug*. Two fine failures to serve as a warning to any future wannabe alliance commanders.

Reunion boosted itself recruiting the members of these two alliances to claim #1 for a very short period of time. Drama was present due a member of PAteam merging the remains of Hydra into Reunion without following due procedure. An illegal merge so to speak. An apology from Kloopy explained the difficulty in undoing the process and the merge stayed in effect. The fanfare from tripping mushrooms could be heard from miles away, as not only had their opposition (LCH-Insomnia) crumbled but also Reunion had taken the spotlight for being evil, recruiting no-good'ers.

Later on an in-game copy of Reunion memberlist began circulating the Web. Meanwhile the head multihunter, xontas, was sacked. Pieces. Puzzle. Together.

On the forums the round15 galaxy system has been brought up on discussion alongside changes planned into races for round16.

The summer round has seen an unusual amount of activity within the alliance rankings due mergers and alliances collapsing. Hardball moves from the HCs and most likely a breath of fresh air for the members concerned. Thumbs up for upping the ante allowing for a few surprises here and there.

In other news the witch-crafted Mojo Bags in use by 1up were found extremely powerful in warding off evil and the rise of EXilition in PT666 did not happen.

Wolfpack is dying. New Dawn, Novus ordo Seclorum and F-Crew remain in top10 of today as a reminder of old, established alliances with a long history in Planetarion.

In breaking news: A lie might have been committed on Alliance Discussions. 1up are investigating the matter.

Do you think the Planetarion manual could be better? So do we. Appocomaster has laid the foundation for a true new player's manual. Edits most welcome.

A week and a half into the round 1up is showing signs of total domination. While their members have laughed it off on alliance discussions they have taken a comfortable 25% lead on average to the #2 alliance (LCH). Their lead on the #3 alliance (Wolfpack) is even more impressive standing at 40%. The rest are too far behind to be of any consequence at this point.

The competing alliances playing to take on the #1 spot (however, with EXilition not participating I believe we will have to wait till next round on this one) have been alarmed at 1up's remarkable progress and have formed a block according to Sid. A blurb by Mazzelaar also states LCH's -- while not verified from LCH -- attempt to merge with 1up prior to round start. While not news, this does strongly imply that LCH is in no fighting shape.

No doubt this all has given 1up justification to parry these attacks of a fearsome block, which so far have caused them to end the day with -329 roids. Likely their sympathy card will work on smaller and less experienced alliances not wanting to be part of the war. Considering these alliances amount to half of the t10 this is good news for 1up. Members of top galaxies will likely NAP themselves ouf of any ruckus, which 1up is gladly offering.

The previous summer round was won by 1up convincingly using these very same tactics. As an old saying goes; "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

G-II merges into Hydra. Remains unclear whether this move includes a player whom earlier leaked APA/ND coords to the masses.

PT101. Game stopped. Fleet production bug found. 

Unit Scan on 6:1:7 in tick 101
Sentinel	16011
Arrowhead	119

Kal (1:1:2) Ticks and restart Mon, 25 Jul 01:37
Ticks suspended due to severe fleets page bug
There will be a rollback to a tick before the issues occured (22:30 db backup is likely), and ticks will resume 24 hours after the time of the db backup so that peoples timezone based activity is not affected.
Fleets will NOT be recalled

PT73. Game on! Fleets -- There are curently 139 fleets moving, containing 26,973 ships.

  • 11:17, 22 Jul 2005 (BST)

PT37 and the first (?) bug (?) pops up. Exile doesn't work. [ed. fixed a few ticks later]

PT26 ticker down.

(noah02) it might just be very slow tick atm

The initial purge missed the active planets... time to wipe the slate clean, eh? As expected the initial purge was a mishap:

(Kal) the ticker deleter was aciddentally incorreclty configured and fre accoutns that had not been logged in for 24hours before the first tick were deleted
(Kal) it was entirly my fault
(Kal) and i apologise completely
(Kal) the timer is now set correctly [ed. 1 tick lost]
(Kal) but i can;t turn back time

before tick... 

Race  Count (%) Best Planet Score Rank
Terran   538 (25%) OF (::) 0 
Cathaar  370 (17%) OF (::) 0 
Xandathrii 648 (30%) OF (::) 0 
Zikonian  537 (25%) OF (::) 0

after tick... 

Race  Count (%) Best Planet Score Rank
Terran  293 (20%) A Hazy Shade OF Winter (2:9:7)
Cathaar  294 (20%) Baat Cham Dao OF Wing Chun Kuen (2:10:3)
Xandathrii 476 (33%) Children OF War (2:4:46)
Zikonian  374 (26%) Epson OF Stylus C46 (1:5:73)

(Guran) Hmm, 650 planets disappeared.

A few minutes later Kal updates #support channel topic

#support The ticker has purged inactive free accounts - sorry if we deleted you

(noah02) the winner for round 14 with the closest guess to the number of signups (which at the time was 2074 ) is Dotatrix beleive it or not

  • 17:13, 20 Jul 2005 (BST)

R14 to begin in just a couple of hours. The Planetarion IRC channel holds 166 anticipating players and the casual idling oldtimers awaiting tick start @ 20:00GMT.

  • 17:11, 20 Jul 2005 (BST)

New mainpage layout. Jester will drop dead when he sees this ;-)

The idea behind the news/soapbox is to gather common thoughts, ideas and general chatter that might not warrant their own thread (PD). This space can be used to log the events of R14 -- whatever they may be -- and might shape up to be a chaotic timeline following the thoughts of Planetarians. The "lighter" side of PAWiki.

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