Round 25
Round 25 was a 7 week round played from 11th January to 29th Febuary 2008.
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.
Top Galaxy Contenders
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 6:3 until Elviz encouraged a number of alliances led by NewDawn and Conspiracy Theory to launch a murderous attack which took 12k roids.
A parse of the incomings
Top Planet Contenders
The primary contenders 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.
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' 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.
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)
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 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 only ended 1 million 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 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.
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.
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
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
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
