Round 9.5:Ceremony

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[20:01] <[[A2]]> Good evening [[Spinner]]
[20:01] <Spinner> Greetings and salutations!
[20:02] <Spinner> So, I hope it has been an enjoyable round again, apart from the cheating that went a little through the roof in this free round
[20:03] *** A2 changes topic to 'Welcome to the end of r9.5 - no nicktalking please - congratulations to all the winners'
[20:03] <Spinner> So, cant wait for Pa X if you ask me (-:
[20:03] <Spinner> But, as always, there are winners and losers
[20:03] <Spinner> It seems 5:5 pulled it off as the top galaxy
[20:04] <Spinner> Followed by 26:7 and 23:9
[20:04] <Spinner> Fascinating how many Gals have tagged with LDK this time around (-:
[20:05] <Spinner> heh, that was 46:7, not 26:7 ofc
[20:05] <Spinner> But shall we hear it from the people who struggled hard to do what they did then
[20:05] <Spinner> Lets start with 5:5
[20:05] <Spinner> The GC and possible ministers perhaps?
[20:06] <Spinner> A2, feel free to help me voice them :D
[20:06] <A2> please voice your gal [[ParraCida]]
[20:06] <ParraCida> kk
[20:06] <A2> or the ministers
[20:06] <ParraCida> just ministers?
[20:06] <Spinner> ministers first pls
[20:07] <Spinner> So, Parracida, been a hectic round for ya then?
[20:07] <ParraCida> at times yes :)
[20:07] <Spinner> if I may ask, how many actual LDK members do you have in yrou galaxy?
[20:07] <ParraCida> I think 4
[20:08] <WebAngel> actually 5
[20:08] <Spinner> Very international galaxy I see
[20:08] <ParraCida> yes, just got 5 pm's telling me it was 5 :)
[20:09] <Spinner> Any US or Aussies in there?
[20:09] <Spinner> or mainly european?
[20:09] <ParraCida> mainly european
[20:09] <ParraCida> an aussie exiled into our gal later on
[20:09] <themicks> devoice me, voice pulman, he is current minister , ta :)
[20:09] <Spinner> So, give me a quick rundown how the round was for your galaxy then, if you can
[20:10] <ParraCida> well we started the round off great
[20:10] <ParraCida> good on scanning etc
[20:10] <ParraCida> good on scanning etc
[20:10] <ParraCida> got some early incommings
[20:10] <ParraCida> managed to fend them off pretty well and kept our top position
[20:10] <ParraCida> which lasted till about tick 500
[20:11] <ParraCida> when 2 members crashed their fleets and 2 others got deleted
[20:11] <Spinner> ouch
[20:11] <ParraCida> in the space of 3 days
[20:11] <ParraCida> so we fell back to the fourth position
[20:11] <ParraCida> but we managed to keep a decent roidcount and got an active exile
[20:12] <Spinner> a bit of luck too then (-:
[20:12] <ParraCida> yes, cant win without that
[20:12] <Spinner> Questino to your MoC, has the galaxy behaved themselves on Politics?
[20:13] <Spinner> if BigTony is here?
[20:13] <ParraCida> thats mokke
[20:13] <Spinner> Mokke, darling?
[20:13] <Spinner> you there?
[20:14] <Spinner> oh well, wasted his 15 minutes of fame didnt he!
[20:14] <ParraCida> 10 hours of idleness
[20:14] <ParraCida> we didn't really use politics to answer your question, we were very IRC active
[20:14] <Spinner> So, was there any action between the top 10 gals at all recently, with most of them being tagged with similar tags?
[20:15] <ParraCida> apart from one 46:7 getting us attacked by his ally in the last few days not really
[20:15] <Spinner> or did we suffer yet another "block victory"
[20:15] <ParraCida> I'm sure some people will disagree on the term 'block', but yeah seems like it
[20:15] <Spinner> All the mroe to learn then, considering rd 10 and all
[20:15] <ParraCida> definatly
[20:15] <Spinner> Did you all have fun?
[20:16] <ParraCida> yes, especially during that last attack
[20:16] <ParraCida> nothing beats having a few million ships launched at your galaxy :)
[20:16] <Spinner> Goodie, thats the main thing (-:
[20:16] <Spinner> hehe
[20:16] <Spinner> "dive dive dive"
[20:16] <ParraCida> hehe
[20:17] <Spinner> anyone you wish to thank etc?
[20:17] <ParraCida> ye
[20:17] <ParraCida> Everyone that supported us in Parallel, [5exy] :)
[20:17] <Spinner> (-:
[20:17] <WebAngel> I would like to say thank you to evreybody in 5exy. They have saved us this round. It's now very clear that a peaceful para/cluster is very decisive if you wanna win.
[20:17] <ParraCida> my old attack group that send us a lot of defense, FEAR
[20:18] <ParraCida> and ofcourse, LDK and section
[20:18] <Spinner> Not many top gals tagged Section
[20:18] <Spinner> just you actually
[20:18] <PulMan> i thank you LDK for using me as escort
[20:18] <PulMan> they allowed me to escort them !
[20:18] <PulMan> ;)
[20:19] <ParraCida> they never were a 'spotlight' alliance, nevertheless they were there :)
[20:19] <ParraCida> yes pulman spend way too much time escorting then normal attacking for my taste :-)
[20:19] <WebAngel> I would like to add that I am very proud this round because we have trained like 3 new PA players and they have done pretty well. This victory is also their victory.
[20:19] <Spinner> thats ace
[20:20] <ParraCida> yep, didnt know what an astropod was at the start, ended up with 10 mil plus :)
[20:20] <Spinner> hehe, well done to them
[20:21] <Spinner> ok, shall we get the GC from 46:7 on as wel then, to see what he has to say
[20:21] <WebAngel> its Globe
[20:22] <Spinner> Hi Globe
[20:22] <Globe> lo
[20:22] <Globe> :)
[20:22] <Spinner> Enjoyed the round?
[20:22] <Globe> yes, very much, except the last 2 weeks
[20:22] <Spinner> heh
[20:22] <Globe> but it has been funny
[20:22] <Spinner> What happened?
[20:23] <Globe> 1 word: multihunter
[20:23] <Globe> anyway, it was a nice random round
[20:23] <Spinner> ah, had some less than law-abiding planets in yoru galaxy?
[20:23] <Globe> well, we had i think 4 closures on the end
[20:23] <Spinner> thats harsh
[20:23] <Globe> which costed us victory
[20:24] <Spinner> Yoru galaxy is one of the few in top 10 not tagged with LDK
[20:25] <Spinner> Has this been a difficult situation, or are you just not tagged?
[20:25] <Globe> well, i removed the tag cause we have several alliances in our gal
[20:25] <Globe> and i don't like to use 1 or 2 tags, but we did it as a team
[20:25] <Globe> all alliances helped us
[20:25] <Spinner> But the galaxy comes first?
[20:25] <Globe> for me yes
[20:26] <Globe> i like to get it working as a team
[20:26] <Spinner> And obvisouly did a good job
[20:26] <Globe> we started top300 in the start
[20:26] <Spinner> Pretty galaxy-banner you have btw (-:
[20:27] <Globe> but we roided our parallel daily which got us so high
[20:27] <Globe> oh thnx, don't know who made, but my galm8 Klendau suddenly ordered me to put it up :)
[20:27] <Spinner> So, as opposed to 5:5, you used yoru paralell for roids, while 5:5 kept peace with theirs
[20:27] <Globe> jup
[20:28] <Spinner> interesting (-:
[20:28] <Globe> i'm surprised though that p7 never hit back
[20:28] <Globe> but it was our gold mine
[20:28] <Spinner> hehe
[20:29] <Spinner> Well done on the 2nd place anyways! Anyone you'd like to thank, apart from your galaxy?
[20:29] <Globe> thnx
[20:29] <Globe> uhm yes
[20:29] <Globe> i would like to thank zerocore :)
[20:29] <Globe> he accepted me into ldk
[20:29] <Globe> i left pa after r8
[20:29] <Globe> without ldk 46:7 wouldn't be top100
[20:30] <Globe> and i would like to thank WebAngel, my best friend in my pa history :) congrats with ur victory, u deserved it
[20:30] <Globe> and all the LDK members + HC :)
[20:30] <Spinner> (do send me that list some time) :D
[20:31] <Globe> list?
[20:31] <Spinner> hehe, nm
[20:32] <Globe> oh btw
[20:32] <Spinner> But you tried to stage an attack on 5:5 then, as a final attempt?
[20:32] <Globe> i would like to thank Iron too :) he got closed from my gal though
[20:32] <Globe> but he's a good m8 of mine nowadays
[20:32] <Globe> well, a galm8 of mine is eclipse
[20:33] <Globe> and he was involved in an attack on 5:5
[20:33] <Globe> that's all i know about
[20:33] <Spinner> kk
[20:33] <Globe> ldk wanted to take revange the last day, so my galm8 went on vac mode to keep his score
[20:33] <WebAngel> thank you for this 1M visible ships I got on my planet by the way
[20:34] <Globe> u survived webby :p
[20:34] <WebAngel> 731k of them died ;)
[20:34] <Spinner> Seems like you have all had some fun and action then (-:
[20:34] <Spinner> I really want to have a word with the #1 planet then, poor guy, he must have had a few incomings as well I should think
[20:35] <[LDK]Kaifux> thank you A2
[20:35] <Spinner> the GC of 34:7
[20:35] <Spinner> Is that you Kaifux?
[20:35] <[LDK]Kaifux> that would be me
[20:35] <Spinner> Any hostiles recently?
[20:35] <Spinner> (-:
[20:35] <Spinner> Congrats btw
[20:35] <[LDK]Kaifux> nah, all quiet at the western front
[20:36] <[LDK]Kaifux> only a billion of red incoming fleets or so
[20:36] <[LDK]Kaifux> !
[20:36] <Spinner> It might have had something to do with you 12572 roids though
[20:36] <[LDK]Kaifux> I have lost quite a few of them lately
[20:36] <Spinner> where on earth did you get all those? And how much defense did you tie down in order to keep them?
[20:37] <[LDK]Kaifux> It was not easy, and I was struggling, but with the help of my trusted long time friends there I managed
[20:37] <[LDK]Kaifux> and had a whole lot of fun across the way (my overview even now takes longer to load than universe screen) :-)
[20:37] <Spinner> lol
[20:38] <Spinner> I assume you were not one of these P7 goldmines 46:7 told us about then (-:
[20:39] <[LDK]Kaifux> strangely, Globe and his minions never tried to bite a piece of me, for which I am thankful.
[20:39] <Spinner> Tremendous difference in score between the different planets in yoru galaxy I must say
[20:39] <[LDK]Kaifux> On the other hand it can have something to do with me being an attack organizer for LDK :-)
[20:39] <Spinner> hehe
[20:40] <Spinner> it just might (-:
[20:40] <Spinner> So, all you three GCs, what did LDK do this time around to dominate the top so much?
[20:40] <[LDK]Kaifux> Some of my galaxy mates quit earlier, so their score is not what it should be, but still I am very proud of them. We ended as a top5 galaxy, and it feels good!
[20:41] <[LDK]Kaifux> I can only think of one reason
[20:41] <Globe> good question :)
[20:41] <ParraCida> recruit al lot of the good players imo
[20:41] <ParraCida> they expanded beyond having lithuanians only this round
[20:41] <[LDK]Kaifux> Getting the most active, dedicated, 1337(!) players before the round, and keeping them to our own goodness
[20:41] <Globe> even when all the other alliances formed a block vs LDK. LDK still survived
[20:42] <Spinner> I hope they realise it is going to be hard for them next time (-:
[20:42] <Spinner> Or are they hard enough to do it twice?
[20:43] <ParraCida> nah, everyone will go after LDK first next round :)
[20:43] <ParraCida> "payback"
[20:43] <[LDK]Kaifux> We are not making any plans yet, only celebrating. The thinking phase will come later, after we're all sober again :-))
[20:43] <Spinner> hehe, then again, they cna always be in hiding
[20:43] <Spinner> hehe, good plan Kaifux
[20:43] <[LDK]Kaifux> Yes! We will rename ourselves to LDK2nd next round!
[20:44] <[LDK]Kaifux> No one will ever know
[20:44] <Leshy> WaL - We are LDK?
[20:44] <Spinner> riight...get sober first, good lad
[20:44] <[LDK]Kaifux> yes, pm all those suggestions to Lrytas or zerocore :-))
[20:44] <WebAngel> Something important, I would like to thanks all the HCs of the different alliances. The powerful ones like LDK and the less experienced but still very active and very important ones in PA like VisioN. You are all doing an amazing job, thank you all. And of course, thank you Spinner and everybody who has ever worked on PA ;)
[20:45] <Spinner> No end of round without a proper thanks to PaTeam too
[20:45] <Spinner> If not fot them, there wouldnt be a PA
[20:45] <WebAngel> indeed
[20:45] <Spinner> And even though Multihunter can seem like a harsh figure at times, his / her job is a hard one
[20:46] <Spinner> And my final thanks goes out to all the players who DIDNT make it to the top
[20:46] <Spinner> Come back in PaX, and we'll show 'em (-:
[20:47] <Spinner> (bring some friends, that helps!)
[20:47] <Spinner> And from this point, it all changes I guess, with PaX being different in many ways
[20:47] <Spinner> But first, we are going to have a little havoc
[20:48] <MrBrick> :)
[20:48] <MrBrick> Leave my roids alone ;)
[20:48] <Spinner> So over the next week, there will be some stonethrowing
[20:48] <Spinner> with ticks running at twice the speed, and you will all get some resources to play with so you can finally help the #1 planet to "loose some weight" (-:
[20:49] <Spinner> That ok with you Kaifux?
[20:49] <Globe> bbl....movie time, thnx for giving me time to say a word :) gl with pa r10
[20:49] <Spinner> thank you!
[20:49] <[LDK]Kaifux> Lastly, I would also like to thank my alliance LDK for being there for me when I needed you, thank you Lrytas, zerocore, wytas, PulMan, sliekas, nORB (for yesterday's party), mokke and all the others who worked hard on getting me to the top. Best regards to my galaxy 34:7 for being the nice bunch that you are. Thanks to the PA crew for this wonderful game.
[20:49] <Spinner> We have a server ready now, and we are installing the beta code on it as we speak, so the testers will hear from us
[20:50] <Spinner> kk
[20:50] <Spinner> Tomrrow, at 10:00 GMT, we will start the ticker at twice the speed, and make sure everyone has enough resources to play for a while, as as always, we will refill you on the way.
[20:51] <Spinner> Havoc will last for 1 week, exactly
[20:51] <Spinner> Thanks to everyone for 9.5, it was nice to see some old-timers return for a bit of fun.
[20:52] <MrBrick> Quick thanks to the support team from me, had a lot of new faces join
[20:52] <Spinner> And yes, we will throw out some roids as well as resources
[20:52] <MrBrick> and they do damn well
[20:52] <MrBrick> :)
[20:52] <MrBrick> Cheers #support
[20:52] <MrBrick> :)
[20:52] <Spinner> that they do (-:
[20:53] <[LDK]Kaifux> Finally, for all of you people who gathered here this fine evening, my only will is that you forget all the grudges you have gathered during your stay in Planetarion community, for in the long term you find out they are unimportant. New friends, experiences, roiding and defending, alliances and politics are what make this game, and serve it's purpose - to have a whole load of real 100% pure fun. Bye ;)
[20:53] <Spinner> And all the IRC ops too, and netgamers, and Jolt, and the forum mods and all the others out there who play their part to keep PA as good as it can be
[20:53] <Spinner> Kaifux, I couldnt have said it better myself (-:
[20:53] <Spinner> "pld"
[20:54] <ParraCida> aye
[20:54] <Spinner> (and to the owners of the flashing pm's on top of my screen, could you kindly remove the pm , as I cant get to them all atm)
[20:54] <Spinner> rightieo then, we will be back with more info on beta status and rd 10 on the portal tomrrow.
[20:55] <A2> Creators Hour tommorrow evening as normal then Spinner?
[20:55] <Spinner> Thank you all for playing, coming, and I fully EXPECT AND DEMAND to see you next time around (-:
[20:55] <Spinner> I dont know A2, I will inform in my announcement tomrrow
[20:56] <Spinner> Thank you, and good night
[20:56] <[LDK]Kaifux> btw Spinner
[20:56] <[LDK]Kaifux> can I make an announcement?
[20:56] <[LDK]Kaifux> DON'T TOUCH MY ROIDS IN THE HAVOC YOU GREEDY THUGS, THEY ARE POISONOUS!
[20:57] <[LDK]Kaifux> there, it's out :)
[20:57] <A2> hehe