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Round 25 was a 7 week round played from 11th January to 29th Febuary 2008.
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It marked the introduction of the ability to disband a galaxy once it fell into the bottom 10% by score. By the end of the round this led to an anomalously large average galaxy size of 17 planets. It also marked the introduction of hte 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 roids which could be stolen in the same tick.
=Round Summary=


'''Top Galaxy Contenders'''
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.


Smasher's galaxy, 11:7 dominated the rankings, with Elviz' gal (6:3) and Ascendancy's flagship (3:5) claiming second and third respectively. 11:7 had a greater-than-50% roidlead over second place until Elviz encouraged a number of alliances led by NewDawn and Conspiracy Theory to launch a murderous attack which took 12k roids.
==Top Galaxy Contenders==


'''Top Planet 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.


The primary contenders for top planet were Smasher (xVx, 11:7), 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.
==Top Planet Contenders==


The massive assault on 11:7 severely reduced Bigbad and Smasher's odds; in a spectacular battle, 35 CT frigate-based fleets crashed into Smasher's planet at a cost of 7.5million fleet value for ~650 roids and the ruining of his spectre fleet (a mistake which may have cost Smasher the round). Elviz' frigates were conspicuous by their absence, and with his conserved fleet he was able to ensure regular roidgains from attacking smaller alliances like Subh, TGV, F-Crew & Hidden Agenda.  
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.


Byrney's chances were ruined by Urwins on the last day. Unfortunately for him the attacting structure killers destroyed his factories in a ratio which prevented him releasing a large amount of hidden production. With the probability of occuring of about 1 in 4,000, Byrney was justifiably frustrated.
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).  


Elviz was able to take his 3rd PA victory, more than anyone in PA history.
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.


'''Alliance politics''' Perspective from Gate (NewDawn)
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.
 
SUMMARY: The round was contested by NewDawn, Conspiracy Theory, Urwins & xVx. NewDawn and Conspiracy Theory worked together from early on and removed Ascendancy as a threat, followed by Urwins, then xVx. CT lost a huge battle to xVx, giving up any plans of fighting NewDawn. NewDawn tagged up their hidden score reserves and took the victory.


==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.


Early on, some Ascendancy planets massed distorters, whilst others hunted down scanners with structure killers and covert ops. They raced to a massive roidcount before NewDawn and Conspiracy Theory (henceforth NDCT) NAPd and launched a structure-killing assault. Some of these attacks landed blind & crashed spectacularly, with NewDawn losing 4 battleship fleets in one battle. 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.
Early on, some Ascendancy planets massed [[Structures#Wave_Distorter|distorters]], whilst others hunted down [[Scans#Alliance_scanners|scanners]] with [[Ship_type#Structure_Killers|structure killers]] and [[covert operations]]. They raced to a massive roidcount before NewDawn and Conspiracy Theory (henceforth NDCT) [[NAP]]d 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 bombardments; with no support from their allies Vengeance and morale flagging, Urwins' chances were ruined. It is testament to their skill, drive and commitment that despite such a severe and constant beating by twice their number they only ended 1 million behind Conspiracy.
 
CT were able to depose Urwins, but soon afterwards xVx were able to overtake them & claim first. Unwilling to join in the war, they planet targetted Rock for a night, citing hostility as the reason. Rock, sat in 7th, claimed innocence and responded in kind. An heroic effort by ROCK (complete with patriotic galbanners) stonewalled xVx's growth.
 
NDCT were eventually able to come to ROCK's aid, splitting their fire between 11:7 and xVx. This single attack effectively ruined both xVx's and CT's chances. With 35 of their fleets severely damaged & their 2 top 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.
 
xVx proved unable to handle a night of heavy incoming, NewDawn considered them defeated and decided that a shift to full targetting was unnecessary. NDCT disengaged.


In the last 2 days, NewDawn boosted their score by adding out of tag planets. Despite the loss of almost 10 million score to a deletion and mistakes in releasing production, NewDawn were able to claim the win.
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.  


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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.
Planets - Top 100
Rank Change Coords Ruler Planet Race -Size Score
1 6:3:4 elviz Conspiracy Xan 3,653 11,853,457
2 up 1 11:7:13 Byrney NewDawn Etd 2,403 10,974,587
3 down 1 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 up 1 3:7:5 Reese Urwins Etd 2,926 8,837,624
10 down 1 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 up 1 3:7:3 BlueAdept Vengeance Ter 2,030 8,369,933
14 down 1 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 up 4 9:5:1 [Dreamz] Urwins Etd 1,805 7,659,212
19 down 1 11:7:11 xls TGV Zik 1,790 7,622,556
20 down 1 6:3:8 Callan NewDawn Etd 2,280 7,422,689
21 down 1 11:2:6 booji TGV Ter 1,487 7,399,974
22 up 1 5:8:7 BaasB Urwins Etd 2,364 7,335,392
23 down 2 9:8:3 zebra NewDawn Ter 1,733 7,248,327
24 8:6:4 grayavatar NewDawn Etd 1,510 6,982,042
25 up 9 3:5:12 BozE ROCK Xan 2,533 6,973,670
26 down 1 3:5:6 jerome` Ascendancy Ter 2,508 6,968,077
27 down 1 2:9:9 Londo Subh Etd 894 6,830,099
28 down 1 3:5:2 Sun_Tzu Ascendancy Zik 1,458 6,816,385
29 down 1 8:6:6 killerbee xVx Xan 2,174 6,809,785
30 down 1 6:3:7 Valle Ascendancy Etd 2,021 6,576,973
31 5:5:14 Tronick Conspiracy Zik 1,775 6,567,025
32 down 2 7:2:10 Drago ROCK Xan 1,206 6,483,937
33 down 1 2:10:12 codynt ROCK Ter 1,428 6,479,137
34 up 2 3:5:4 JBG Ascendancy Ter 2,573 6,439,239
35 up 11 4:3:6 Hut Vengeance Etd 1,706 6,430,910
36 up 1 5:1:7 theodb NewDawn Etd 914 6,416,870
37 down 2 9:5:2 koyochi ROCK Ter 2,328 6,396,982
38 down 5 11:4:10 Gothic Ðragons Cat 435 6,372,645
39 down 1 8:6:7 Bouygeus Vengeance Xan 2,199 6,302,036
40 up 1 3:3:3 Captain Vengeance Etd 1,941 6,287,864
41 down 2 5:7:6 Cead Ascendancy Ter 2,284 6,261,770
42 down 2 1:4:9 Ivor ROCK Etd 1,033 6,257,500
43 down 1 5:8:2 Nitor NewDawn Ter 2,331 6,249,668
44 down 1 8:6:12 IsildurX Ascendancy Ter 2,066 6,215,519
45 down 1 3:3:6 t-dub Howling Rain Etd 1,474 6,164,351
46 up 6 4:8:15 Champ_nr1 NewDawn Ter 1,624 6,161,531
47 down 2 3:5:10 KOOL Conspiracy Zik 1,494 6,160,527
48 down 1 3:5:1 Achi Ascendancy Ter 1,710 6,058,504
49 up 1 9:1:7 Hude Ascendancy Ter 1,281 6,042,420
50 down 2 5:10:5 Zeb NewDawn Etd 860 6,035,896
51 down 2 3:3:13 NitinA Ascendancy Ter 3,225 6,025,330
52 up 8 3:5:9 Chedderz Ascendancy Ter 2,264 6,016,689
53 down 2 11:2:1 TheShadow xVx Xan 1,704 6,001,332
54 7:2:9 Ninja xVx Xan 1,674 5,883,637
55 down 2 10:9:1 Sleepless Conspiracy Etd 2,624 5,870,593
56 up 6 11:7:5 Rykone xVx Zik 1,578 5,813,347
57 up 2 1:8:8 Nicole xVx Etd 1,257 5,812,159
58 down 3 2:6:4 FrostyZ NewDawn Ter 1,649 5,756,916
59 down 2 1:4:10 raketman Hidden Agenda Ter 1,387 5,753,660
60 down 4 5:7:2 Mikesrealgood Urwins Ter 2,010 5,747,568
61 up 2 3:3:15 aragno xVx Xan 2,883 5,707,087
62 up 9 8:6:9 PK Hidden Agenda Cat 1,852 5,702,267
63 down 5 8:6:15 Storebo xVx Etd 1,936 5,696,204
64 up 12 4:10:6 Cronix Conspiracy Xan 2,229 5,687,106
65 down 4 2:7:3 Timur xVx Ter 1,353 5,658,267
66 down 2 7:2:7 Sjimbo Vengeance Cat 538 5,563,882
67 down 2 2:8:7 Dealer TGV Ter 2,000 5,560,166
68 up 2 6:3:14 Exor Conspiracy Etd 2,045 5,532,051
69 2:9:3 Inforza Ascendancy Ter 2,182 5,520,241
70 up 8 7:9:5 ThunderCat NewDawn Ter 1,492 5,481,544
71 down 5 3:5:16 wanderer TGV Ter 1,574 5,480,560
72 down 5 2:2:4 Endless Howling Rain Xan 1,957 5,479,961
73 up 12 3:2:10 Vash Howling Rain Ter 1,361 5,467,941
74 down 2 9:8:4 ReligFree Conspiracy Ter 2,024 5,461,909
75 down 7 5:5:4 robban Ascendancy Etd 554 5,453,624
76 down 3 6:3:6 Cain I BPd elviz Zik 1,012 5,435,010
77 down 3 11:5:3 Digital xVx Etd 1,128 5,434,098
78 up 14 6:6:4 SteInMetz NewDawn Ter 1,536 5,416,020
79 up 2 5:6:2 Gerbie ROCK Etd 712 5,414,286
80 down 3 8:2:3 Ritch Orbit Etd 1,179 5,395,150
81 down 6 9:1:4 Dirte Ascendancy Ter 1,581 5,380,351
82 down 2 5:9:7 Theodore Orbit Ter 1,154 5,358,440
83 down 4 8:4:7 Amon NewDawn Zik 1,262 5,357,740
84 up 102 1:8:1 celtic xVx Etd 1,130 5,350,968
85 up 10 4:2:3 Mitre Ascendancy Zik 2,146 5,337,801
86 down 4 7:9:8 Biodragon Urwins Ter 1,557 5,332,722
87 down 4 11:5:1 qupi Vengeance Cat 1,526 5,320,808
88 down 4 7:5:1 darts Urwins Etd 1,371 5,305,020
89 down 3 8:2:7 eki TGV Ter 1,388 5,278,926
90 down 3 9:4:2 LionsMight Subh Etd 1,736 5,269,672
91 up 7 8:6:13 Pathogen xVx Etd 2,027 5,248,239
92 down 4 7:2:5 silver^ace Urwins Etd 1,365 5,247,531
93 down 4 2:9:6 Typhoon xVx Ter 1,818 5,227,151
94 down 4 11:7:3 LukeyLove Ascendancy Ter 576 5,217,331
95 down 4 6:6:6 Side Orbit Xan 1,089 5,213,715
96 down 3 8:1:7 Mustaavalkosta Orbit Xan 923 5,192,555
97 down 3 5:8:4 Strider- NewDawn Ter 1,560 5,185,821
98 down 2 11:2:7 dx xVx Ter 1,081 5,150,564
99 down 2 8:2:13 Pipzter xVx Etd 980 5,137,834
100 down 1 1:2:12 Sin Orbit Xan 846 5,117,865
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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.


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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.


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=Final Rankings=
Galaxies - Top 50
Rank Change 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 up 1 4:8 Ascendancy - Suicidal Lemmings 15890 48,965,746
10 down 1 10:5 Team Ponies 16044 48,808,175
11 8:2 Mighty ducks 14196 48,103,073
12 up 1 11:2 plundering vikings! 13093 47,282,688
13 down 1 9:8 CT - A DLR Production - ND 16849 47,157,816
14 9:5 Wanna play? 16258 46,371,842
15 up 1 4:2 ASCENDANCY 13728 44,588,605
16 down 1 3:6 Space Invaders 12537 44,461,183
17 up 1 6:6 ND-CT Fearless Killer Bunnies 13887 43,624,805
18 down 1 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 up 5 6:5 U Were Warned 14269 42,956,967
22 down 1 7:2 St0ck Exchange 12379 42,873,896
23 down 1 5:8 Black Hole for Ships 13568 42,764,400
24 down 1 5:2 Sheep power 11417 42,661,874
25 down 1 5:7 EPIC 15281 42,364,912
26 down 1 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 up 1 1:8 Free Beer - Expensive Roids 11043 35,854,397
40 down 1 9:4 From Rock to Dust 10818 35,469,644
41 up 3 8:1 Planetspotting 10571 35,126,876
42 down 1 7:1 Whats your mood today? 11794 34,666,671
43 down 1 3:2 Darkness Void 10148 34,069,644
44 down 1 2:7 Axis of Evil 10210 33,645,202
45 up 1 10:1 -=AnotherDimension=- 10206 32,750,502
46 down 1 3:9 Fightin-irish inside 9945 32,540,483
47 11:5 Inferno 10936 32,250,461
48 up 2 11:4 Needs Tuning 11681 32,149,741
49 down 1 2:2 Echoes of Silence 11345 32,018,878
50 down 1 5:9 ORBIT-CT-ND-TGV-HA-VGN 9842 31,396,207
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* [[Round_25:Planet_Ranks|Final Planet Rankings]]
* [[Round_25:Galaxy_Ranks|Final Galaxy Rankings]]
* [[Round_25:Alliance Ranks|Final Alliance Rankings]]


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=See Also=


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* [[Round 25:End of Round Ceremony|R25 EORC]]
Alliances - Top 30
Rank Change 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 up 1 Urwins 66815 60 3,979,621 238,777,291
4 down 1 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
Average Top 10 Score: 3666428
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
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[[:Category:Alliances:Round_25|Alliances in Round 25]]
* [[:Category:Alliances:Round_25|Alliances in Round 25]]
* [[Round 25:Ship Stats|Ship Stats]]

Latest revision as of 11:29, 24 December 2015

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

See Also

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