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Elviz' frigates were conspicuous by their absence from the battle at Smasher's, and with his conserved fleet he was able to ensure regular roidgains from attacking smaller alliances like [[Subh]], TGV, [[F-Crew]] & [[Hidden Agenda]]. These roidgains were sufficient to take a record third round win. | Elviz' frigates were conspicuous by their absence from the battle at Smasher's, and with his conserved fleet he was able to ensure regular roidgains from attacking smaller alliances like [[Subh]], TGV, [[F-Crew]] & [[Hidden Agenda]]. These roidgains were sufficient to take a record third round win. | ||
==Alliance politics== Perspective from Gate (NewDawn) | ==Alliance politics== Perspective from [[Gate]] (NewDawn) | ||
The removal of the support planet rule meant that some alliances fielded over the 60 member limit and accepted less active planets as support; both ND and Asc fielded 74 players and xVx had a 22-member extra tag called '5th Asylum'. NewDawn successfully hid a large amount of score out of tag all round long. | The removal of the support planet rule meant that some alliances fielded over the 60 member limit and accepted less active planets as support; both ND and Asc fielded 74 players and xVx had a 22-member extra tag called '5th Asylum'. NewDawn successfully hid a large amount of score out of tag all round long. | ||
Revision as of 16:17, 5 January 2010
Dates and Times
Signups started on Friday 4th January 2008 at 20:00 GMT
Ticks started on the 11th January 2008 at 20:00 GMT
Ticks ended on the 29th February 2008 at 20:00 GMT
Round Summary
It marked the introduction of the ability to disband a galaxy once it fell into the bottom 10% by score, leading to an average 17-player galaxy by round end. It also marked the introduction of the ability to 'invite' a new signup into your galaxy after PT336. The support planet rule was disabled and combat was finally made independent of user ID; people no longer stole and lost the same roids in the same tick.
Top Galaxy Contenders
Smasher's galaxy, 11:7 dominated the rankings, with Elviz's gal (6:3) and Ascendancy's flagship (3:5) claiming second and third respectively. 11:7 had a greater-than-50% roidlead over 6:3 until Elviz encouraged a number of alliances led by NewDawn and Conspiracy Theory to launch a murderous attack which took 12k roids.
Top Planet Contenders
The primary contenders were Smasher (xVx, 11:7), Wishmaster (Urwins, 6:3), Bigbad (TGV, 11:7), Byrney (NewDawn, 11:7) and Elviz (Conspiracy Theory, 6:3), with Elviz eventually winning. He had dominated the early rankings, before a mid-round roiding by Ascendancy allowed the 11:7 crew to make a run for it.
The massive assault on 11:7 severely reduced Bigbad and Smasher's odds; in a spectacular battle, 35 CT fleets crashed into Smasher at a cost of 7.5 million value for ~650 roids and the ruining of his spectre fleet (a mistake which may have cost Smasher the round).
Byrney's chances were ruined by Urwins on the last day. Attacking structure killers destroyed his factories in a ratio which prevented the release of a large amount of hidden production. With the probability of this ratio occuring of about 1 in 4,000, Byrney was justifiably annoyed.
Elviz' frigates were conspicuous by their absence from the battle at Smasher's, and with his conserved fleet he was able to ensure regular roidgains from attacking smaller alliances like Subh, TGV, F-Crew & Hidden Agenda. These roidgains were sufficient to take a record third round win.
==Alliance politics== Perspective from Gate (NewDawn)
The removal of the support planet rule meant that some alliances fielded over the 60 member limit and accepted less active planets as support; both ND and Asc fielded 74 players and xVx had a 22-member extra tag called '5th Asylum'. NewDawn successfully hid a large amount of score out of tag all round long.
Early on, some Ascendancy planets massed distorters, whilst others hunted down scanners with structure killers and covert operations. They raced to a massive roidcount before NewDawn and Conspiracy Theory (henceforth NDCT) NAPd and launched structure-killing attacks, some of which landed blind & crashed spectacularly. The following day Ascendancy were hit across the board, an effort repeated periodically by NDCT, who feared Asc were hiding value. In the end, Asc's distorter count limited their income and although they spent most of the round with an impressive roidcount, they never breached the top 4.
During this time, Urwins (who had aligned themselves with Vengeance and claimed top spot) were considered the greatest threat and NDCT firepower shifted to them for a 2 week bombardment; with no support from Vengeance, Urwins' chances were ruined. It is testament to their skill, drive and commitment that they finished less than 500k behind Conspiracy.
CT were able to depose Urwins, but soon afterwards lost the top spot to xVx who planet targetted ROCK, citing ROCK hostility. ROCK, sat in 7th, claimed innocence and responded in kind with an heroic effort (complete with patriotic galbanners) which prevented xVx's growth.
NDCT were eventually able to come to ROCK's aid, splitting their fire between 11:7 and xVx. A single night effectively ruined both xVx's and CT's chances. With 35 of their fleets severely damaged at Smasher's & their 2 biggest planets either NAPing or avoiding top alliances, CT resigned themselves to defeat and maintained the NAP with NewDawn until the end. It wasn't all bad news though; their members' sacrifice was rewarded with CT's first top planet.
NewDawn considered xVx defeated and decided that a shift to full targetting was unnecessary, so disengaged. In the last 2 days NewDawn boosted their score by adding out of tag planets. Despite the loss of almost 10 million to a deletion and mistakes in releasing production, they were able to claim the win.
Final Rankings
Top 100 Planets
Rank Coords Nick Alliance Race -Size Score 1 6:3:4 elviz Conspiracy Xan 3,653 11,853,457 2 11:7:13 Byrney NewDawn Etd 2,403 10,974,587 3 6:3:9 Wishmaster Urwins Zik 4,184 10,576,795 4 11:7:2 Smasher xVx Xan 4,053 10,112,402 5 11:7:6 BiGBaD TGV Xan 1,556 9,856,159 6 11:7:7 XceL Urwins Zik 3,700 9,301,906 7 2:9:5 D3coy xVx Zik 2,559 9,020,657 8 9:5:7 Turtle Urwins Ter 2,785 8,869,338 9 3:7:5 Reese Urwins Etd 2,926 8,837,624 10 6:3:19 Mystic Urwins Etd 4,007 8,720,986 11 11:7:9 HTDespoiler Vengeance Etd 2,530 8,582,719 12 3:5:14 eksero Urwins Zik 3,228 8,496,043 13 3:7:3 BlueAdept Vengeance Ter 2,030 8,369,933 14 11:7:4 voodoo Urwins Xan 2,657 8,156,361 15 7:2:2 Ronin Conspiracy Xan 1,385 8,101,371 16 9:8:1 Grog NewDawn Ter 2,559 8,096,621 17 3:6:11 VenoX Urwins Etd 2,735 7,706,391 18 9:5:1 [Dreamz] Urwins Etd 1,805 7,659,212 19 11:7:11 xls TGV Zik 1,790 7,622,556 20 6:3:8 Callan NewDawn Etd 2,280 7,422,689 21 11:2:6 booji TGV Ter 1,487 7,399,974 22 5:8:7 BaasB Urwins Etd 2,364 7,335,392 23 9:8:3 zebra NewDawn Ter 1,733 7,248,327 24 8:6:4 grayavatar NewDawn Etd 1,510 6,982,042 25 3:5:12 BozE ROCK Xan 2,533 6,973,670 26 3:5:6 jerome` Ascendancy Ter 2,508 6,968,077 27 2:9:9 Londo Subh Etd 894 6,830,099 28 3:5:2 Sun_Tzu Ascendancy Zik 1,458 6,816,385 29 8:6:6 killerbee xVx Xan 2,174 6,809,785 30 6:3:7 Valle Ascendancy Etd 2,021 6,576,973 31 5:5:14 Tronick Conspiracy Zik 1,775 6,567,025 32 7:2:10 Drago ROCK Xan 1,206 6,483,937 33 2:10:12 codynt ROCK Ter 1,428 6,479,137 34 3:5:4 JBG Ascendancy Ter 2,573 6,439,239 35 4:3:6 Hut Vengeance Etd 1,706 6,430,910 36 5:1:7 theodb NewDawn Etd 914 6,416,870 37 9:5:2 koyochi ROCK Ter 2,328 6,396,982 38 11:4:10 Gothic Ðragons Cat 435 6,372,645 39 8:6:7 Bouygeus Vengeance Xan 2,199 6,302,036 40 3:3:3 Captain Vengeance Etd 1,941 6,287,864 41 5:7:6 Cead Ascendancy Ter 2,284 6,261,770 42 1:4:9 Ivor ROCK Etd 1,033 6,257,500 43 5:8:2 Nitor NewDawn Ter 2,331 6,249,668 44 8:6:12 IsildurX Ascendancy Ter 2,066 6,215,519 45 3:3:6 t-dub Howling Rain Etd 1,474 6,164,351 46 4:8:15 Champ_nr1 NewDawn Ter 1,624 6,161,531 47 3:5:10 STL Conspiracy Zik 1,494 6,160,527 48 3:5:1 Achi Ascendancy Ter 1,710 6,058,504 49 9:1:7 Hude Ascendancy Ter 1,281 6,042,420 50 5:10:5 Zeb NewDawn Etd 860 6,035,896 51 3:3:13 NitinA Ascendancy Ter 3,225 6,025,330 52 3:5:9 Benneh Ascendancy Ter 2,264 6,016,689 53 11:2:1 TheShadow xVx Xan 1,704 6,001,332 54 7:2:9 Ninja xVx Xan 1,674 5,883,637 55 10:9:1 Sleepless Conspiracy Etd 2,624 5,870,593 56 11:7:5 Rykone xVx Zik 1,578 5,813,347 57 1:8:8 Nicole xVx Etd 1,257 5,812,159 58 2:6:4 FrostyZ NewDawn Ter 1,649 5,756,916 59 1:4:10 raketman Hidden Agenda Ter 1,387 5,753,660 60 5:7:2 Mikesrealgood Urwins Ter 2,010 5,747,568 61 3:3:15 aragno xVx Xan 2,883 5,707,087 62 8:6:9 PK Hidden Agenda Cat 1,852 5,702,267 63 8:6:15 Storebo xVx Etd 1,936 5,696,204 64 4:10:6 Cronix Conspiracy Xan 2,229 5,687,106 65 2:7:3 Timur xVx Ter 1,353 5,658,267 66 7:2:7 Sjimbo Vengeance Cat 538 5,563,882 67 2:8:7 Dealer TGV Ter 2,000 5,560,166 68 6:3:14 Exor Conspiracy Etd 2,045 5,532,051 69 2:9:3 Inforza Ascendancy Ter 2,182 5,520,241 70 7:9:5 ThunderCat NewDawn Ter 1,492 5,481,544 71 3:5:16 wanderer TGV Ter 1,574 5,480,560 72 2:2:4 Endless Howling Rain Xan 1,957 5,479,961 73 3:2:10 Vash Howling Rain Ter 1,361 5,467,941 74 9:8:4 ReligFree Conspiracy Ter 2,024 5,461,909 75 5:5:4 robban Ascendancy Etd 554 5,453,624 76 6:3:6 Cain Zik 1,012 5,435,010 77 11:5:3 Digital xVx Etd 1,128 5,434,098 78 6:6:4 SteInMetz NewDawn Ter 1,536 5,416,020 79 5:6:2 Gerbie ROCK Etd 712 5,414,286 80 8:2:3 Ritch Orbit Etd 1,179 5,395,150 81 9:1:4 Dirte Ascendancy Ter 1,581 5,380,351 82 5:9:7 Theodore Orbit Ter 1,154 5,358,440 83 8:4:7 Amon NewDawn Zik 1,262 5,357,740 84 1:8:1 celtic xVx Etd 1,130 5,350,968 85 4:2:3 Mitre Ascendancy Zik 2,146 5,337,801 86 7:9:8 Biodragon Urwins Ter 1,557 5,332,722 87 11:5:1 qupi Vengeance Cat 1,526 5,320,808 88 7:5:1 darts Urwins Etd 1,371 5,305,020 89 8:2:7 eki TGV Ter 1,388 5,278,926 90 9:4:2 LionsMight Subh Etd 1,736 5,269,672 91 8:6:13 Pathogen xVx Etd 2,027 5,248,239 92 7:2:5 silver^ace Urwins Etd 1,365 5,247,531 93 2:9:6 Typhoon xVx Ter 1,818 5,227,151 94 11:7:3 LukeyLove Ascendancy Ter 576 5,217,331 95 6:6:6 Side Orbit Xan 1,089 5,213,715 96 8:1:7 Mustaavalkosta Orbit Xan 923 5,192,555 97 5:8:4 Strider- NewDawn Ter 1,560 5,185,821 98 11:2:7 dx xVx Ter 1,081 5,150,564 99 8:2:13 Pipzter xVx Etd 980 5,137,834 100 1:2:12 Sin Orbit Xan 846 5,117,865
Top 50 galaxies
Rank Coords Name Size Score 1 11:7 and thats ALL we have to say 28491 95,356,940 2 6:3 Chuck Norris is elvizs father 31561 81,428,622 3 3:5 Ascendancy - The NSDAP Years 25823 71,525,391 4 8:6 dark sides home 22001 66,982,917 5 3:3 PRICELESS! -Urwins- 23111 60,847,007 6 2:9 Snowforza! 17110 53,223,033 7 3:7 -Urwins- Super Mario Galaxy 14473 51,355,117 8 5:10 Conspiracy - Enjoy Your Beer 9221 50,209,954 9 4:8 Ascendancy - Suicidal Lemmings 15890 48,965,746 10 10:5 Team Ponies 16044 48,808,175 11 8:2 Mighty ducks 14196 48,103,073 12 11:2 plundering vikings! 13093 47,282,688 13 9:8 CT - A DLR Production - ND 16849 47,157,816 14 9:5 Wanna play? 16258 46,371,842 15 4:2 ASCENDANCY 13728 44,588,605 16 3:6 Space Invaders 12537 44,461,183 17 6:6 ND-CT Fearless Killer Bunnies 13887 43,624,805 18 7:5 Spider Subh-Urwins-xVx-F-crew 13710 43,398,583 19 2:10 By the power of ROCK 14463 43,322,273 20 1:4 Swimming Upstream 13861 43,234,473 21 6:5 U Were Warned 14269 42,956,967 22 7:2 St0ck Exchange 12379 42,873,896 23 5:8 Black Hole for Ships 13568 42,764,400 24 5:2 Sheep power 11417 42,661,874 25 5:7 EPIC 15281 42,364,912 26 1:2 Teh Krondor Galaxy 13389 42,226,832 27 6:1 The Immortals 11497 41,877,512 28 4:3 The Beermonsters 12752 41,772,062 29 10:9 Mistakes 15845 41,367,520 30 5:6 Hmm Boobies!! 10180 39,447,126 31 2:6 ND-CT-Urwins-Rock-fcrew-HA 10635 39,300,744 32 4:1 Liverpool in our hearts 9474 38,488,632 33 7:7 Pearl Harbour 11274 38,006,864 34 5:3 Look at the drunk tits in here 10794 37,373,640 35 3:4 Ascendancy - Roll on Friday!! 10431 37,031,140 36 8:3 our top score planet is f-crew 9008 36,693,227 37 5:5 VGN-CT-ASC-ASS-TGV 11113 36,244,943 38 7:9 ND-Vgn-Urwins Presidents 11581 36,088,589 39 1:8 Free Beer - Expensive Roids 11043 35,854,397 40 9:4 From Rock to Dust 10818 35,469,644 41 8:1 Planetspotting 10571 35,126,876 42 7:1 Whats your mood today? 11794 34,666,671 43 3:2 Darkness Void 10148 34,069,644 44 2:7 Axis of Evil 10210 33,645,202 45 10:1 -=AnotherDimension=- 10206 32,750,502 46 3:9 Fightin-irish inside 9945 32,540,483 47 11:5 Inferno 10936 32,250,461 48 11:4 Needs Tuning 11681 32,149,741 49 2:2 Echoes of Silence 11345 32,018,878 50 5:9 ORBIT-CT-ND-TGV-HA-VGN 9842 31,396,207
Top 25 Alliances
Rank Name Asteroids Members AVG Score Score 1 NewDawn 61243 60 4,310,202 258,612,136 2 Conspiracy 58489 60 3,984,660 239,079,656 3 Urwins 66815 60 3,979,621 238,777,291 4 xVx 62368 60 3,921,823 235,309,437 5 Ascendancy 60096 60 3,724,883 223,492,998 6 Vengeance 49905 59 3,402,889 200,770,490 7 ROCK 45068 60 3,101,963 186,117,828 8 TGV 37412 51 3,408,853 173,851,533 9 Hidden Agenda 43384 60 2,746,410 164,784,606 10 Orbit 32975 60 2,666,055 159,963,337 11 F-Crew 38154 59 2,282,695 134,679,030 12 Howling Rain 33165 47 2,747,973 129,154,750 13 ASS 32941 51 2,197,921 112,094,005 14 Subh 27089 39 2,329,036 90,832,423 15 5th Asylum 11500 22 1,685,447 37,079,839 16 SPQR 9825 18 1,729,913 31,138,444 17 BGArmy 15377 37 753,375 27,874,876 18 PATSA 8420 20 1,133,480 22,669,608 19 InSomnia 4426 14 1,599,153 22,388,144 20 Ðragons 647 2 3,563,588 7,127,176 21 The Cobra Unit 1853 5 1,002,654 5,013,272 22 PNAC(alimuh) 828 2 2,355,744 4,711,489 23 Woooorsht 2152 6 699,924 4,199,546 24 Donut Army 856 2 1,976,386 3,952,772 25 I BPd elviz 2282 2 1,966,291 3,932,583
