Round 13
So far this has been announced about the upcoming round:
Tick start: 30th March 21:00 GMT Shuffle: 1st April 09:00 GMT
Sign-ups have opened.
Ticks started at 21:00 GMT on the 30th of March, exactly as planned. Round 13 is now underway. Ticks are to end on the 8th of June 2005, at 21:00 GMT (this is when the last tick will occur).
Key Changes from Round 12
As stated within the manual
- Golden Asteroids added
- Fleets Page redesigned with new functionality (click on a ship to move it, colour coding and moving ships form all fleets to a single fleet)
- Combat engine changed to add stealing
- Stats changed to all new round 13 stats
- Incomings hostiles/friendlies message gets updated by fleet recalls now and links to the overview
- Can now scan closed planets
- Message added to scans on closed planets stating that they are closed
- New EULA (End User Licence Agreement) - this is the conditions you agree to when you sign up for an account
- New opt in email list for newsletters, round announcements, etc
- You must now give a reason when you leave an alliance and the alliance will be mailed
- Missions page change to remove info column, alt text now appears with the ship name
- Overview layout changes to put incomings information above MOTD
- New default gal banner
- "your galaxy has incomings" message is now only displayed if hostiles are incoming
- Can now fleet scan incoming defence fleets
- Salvage for defenders changed to 15% from attacking and 20% from defending fleets
- The top 3 parallels should now be shown if there are only 1 or 2 clusters
- Galaxy status page redesigned for increased ease of use
- Free planets are now allowed one more HCT and one more ETA research
- Can now defend planets in vacation mode or closed planets
- Limits on Security Centres set to max 35% bonus
- Jolt payment page updated with more current exchange rates
- Free planets can access history
- Buddy Pack creation, joining and leaving is implemented for upgraded planets, on the Preferences screen
- The galaxy system will now no longer create more galaxies, but keep filling up those we have
- Message system rewrite - both planets and alliances can now send messages to planets and alliances. When alliances send messages, no coords or planet names are revealed, only the name of the alliance. Messaging your entire alliance is now done from the new messages page under Alliances, by PR officers, BCs and HCs. Doing that will message anyone accepted into the alliance, even the recruits
- When updating status / kicking an alliance member, the updater can now add a message to the planet being updated. (From the alliance, no coords revealed ofc)
- GCs must now supply an explanation for a started exile, and the exilee is sent a message about the started exile with the explanation
- The old Members page has now been split up into 2 pages, Members and Applicants
- The process of accepting / rejecting new members has been redesigned for better communication etc
- The Members and Applicants page now lists more data for all members; you can sort by clicking on the headers
- The handling of prepaid credits has been rewritten. It is no longer a script running separately causing load every 15 minutes, it now checks only once per signup, at ACTIVATION. First it tries to find a match by email, then by first name & last name & country. If a match is found, the activation page will display this with big yellow text to the user. The player will also see the "upgrade now" link on Overview
- To reduce size of the DB, planet ranking history is only the last 500 ticks and we only store the history every 10 ticks!!! saves lots of DB space
- Scans are now deleted after 24 hours
Various tidbits
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I am delighted to be able to let you know a few of the changes we will be seeing in round 13. The changes are varied, but nothing to radical or scary -Upgraded planets can create, join and leave buddy packs before the shuffle. -The galaxy-system will now no longer create more galaxies, but keep filling up those we have . -The PA Mail system has been rewritten - both planets and alliances can now send messages to planets and alliances. When alliances send messages, no coords or planet-names are revealed, only the name of the alliance. -Messaging your entire alliance is now done from the new messages page under Alliances, by PR-officers, BCs and HCs. Doing that will message anyone accepted into the alliance, even the recruits. -When updating status / kicking an alliance member, the updater can now add a message to the planet being updated. (From the alliance, no coords revealed ofc.) -GCs must now supply an explanation for a started exile, and the exilee is sent a message about the started exile with the explanation. -The old members page has now been split up into 2 pages, Members and Applicants. -The process of accepting / rejecting new members has been redesigned for better communication etc. -The Members page now lists more data for all members, and the members can be sorted -Pre-paid credits are added when a planet is activated rather than with regular script running. -Scans are now deleted after 24 hours -Various Code Optimisations More information will come in the next few weeks |
Galaxy solution for round 13
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Over a course of several meetings we in Pa Team have produced a proposal for round 13 galaxies. So here it is, discuss it criticise it, find problems in it. Kloopy will decide when the irc based Discussion Time on this will take place later today. Signups open with 20 gals with a mentor in each Signups are allocated to one of those mentor gals until tick 36 Once upgraded people can make buddy packs with upto 3 people on preferences screen - this works by adding a code to your planet which the shuffler will then use to move you and your friends together into one galaxy with other packs and randoms. In tick 36, the shuffle creates as many gals as possible with packs totalling 6 people (2 packs of 3, or 3 packs of 2) Paid randoms are shuffled first (including packs of 1 person). Free randoms are then distributed among those 6-person pack gals based on score - this means that the better free randoms are put into gals first and spread evenly across the universe with the less good ones being added in later. So all galaxies have an equal chance of getting good free players. After the shuffle there will be lots of gals each with 6 people from packs and randoms givgin each galaxy approximatly 10 planets. No more galaxies are ever created When a galaxy exiles a planet they will be sent to c200+ like in this round. Signups and exiles (returning form c200+) are distributed through these gals with no gal-size limit, placing them into a gal in the bottom 20% by planet count. So this means that the galaxies with the most players get the lowest possibly priority on new players. Notes: Mentor – community volunteer / pa representative who will help people out where possible - normal players are shuffled as normal, PaTeam members moved to 1:1 etc |
Ships
More to come
Name Selection
The name was chosen by public vote from a shortlist compiled by PAteam and support, mods and #planetarion ops staff from the names submitted by users.
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Despite there not being much information about Round 13 yet released, it is going to happen! As such we need a name, and therefore we will be running the customary name competition. Here's how it works The winner will not only get to see their name being used throughout the round, but will also recieve a free credit for the round. In the event of the winning name being submitted more than once, the first person to submit it will recieve the credit. To inspire you here are the names of the previous rounds of Planetarion: Round 1 - The Beginning - A2 |
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Round 13 needs a name! You now have a chance to choose the name you'd like it to have on a poll on the Planetarion Discussions (PD) forum. Please visit this thread in order to vote. The person who first submitted the winning name will win a free credit for Round 13 (as well as bragging rights) The shortlist is: Ships in the Night |
The winning name was submitted by Vargon. The vote was held at http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=183091
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Congratulations to Vargon for creating the name which was selected from the shortlist by the public vote. When asked what his inspiration was he said: For his efforts Vargon wins a free credit for Round 13. Once again thankyou to everyone who submitted a name and who voted. |
Round Demographics (5th June)
#1 Alliance Contenders (5th June) #1 Planet Contenders (5th June) #1 Galaxy Contenders (5th June)
Events
Attack on 15:8:11 (insert backgr story here and move to a proper location later):
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