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* Round 29 End: Friday 19th December 2008
* Round 29 End: Friday 19th December 2008


==Round Information==


Round 29 Signups open Monday 13th October at 20:00 GMT, with signups located at http://game.planetarion.com/signup.pl
Some of the main changes for Round 29:


For more information on the changes made to upgrade, please visit http://pirate.planetarion.com/showt...ad.php?t=197041
*Basic (free) accounts now have unlimited population, government, journal/history and buddy pack abilities.<br>
*Premium (paid) accounts will have no adverts, more skins, and a one off boost to resources or asteroids as well as constructions or researches, to be selected at some time after upgrade.<br>
*Covert ops agents and security guards now give value<br>
*There is now a new Core Resource technology, and the last 3 give a bigger resource bonus<br>
*Guards / security agents in production can be canceled for a partial refund<br>
*The Technology and Surface Scans have been merged into the 'Development Scan', and a 'Landing Scan' replaces the Surface Scan. The Landing Scan can be used at ETA 1 to a target planet and lists the number of attacking and defending fleets, but not the co-ords or number of ships.


==Round Summary==
==Round Summary==


Round 29 initially started out with [[Denial]] moving firmly out in front of the other alliances. Before long a loose coalition of [[Newdawn]], [[Audentes]] and [[Ascendancy]] began to hit Denial, who were allied with [[Rock]] preround, to try and bring them further back.  The majority of Denial's firepower concentrated on Audentes, perceived as the weakest opposing alliance, to try and force them out of the conflict. ND and Ascendancy, boosted by a number of late signups in top gals, drew closer to Denial but targetting shifted for the involved alliances at this point. Ascendancy, with a superior roidcount, grew faster than Denial and moved into the #1 position. This led to a brief war with Rock, [[Vengeance]], ND and Denial hitting Ascendancy. However this only lasted a few days and with Ascendancy still increasing the gap and [[Conspiracy Theory]] napping Ascendancy the war was soon over and Ascendancy became the dominant alliance of round 29 for the last couple of weeks of the round.
After the rather one-sided [[Round 28]], [[Denial]] returned as an alliance for '''Round 29''', with the same [[HC]] and a similar memberbase to that they finished [[Round 27]] with. A new alliance entered the fray in the form of [[Audentes]], with a core from [[Jenova]] and a number of players recruited from other alliances. The other alliances viewed as possible contenders were [[CT]], [[ND]] and [[Ascendancy]], who started off with a smaller tag than the previous round. With both Ascendancy looking less powerful and Denial entering fully into the round this looked initially like it would be a closely contested round.


At first ND took an early lead ahead of CT, albeit primarily based on the fact that Denial delayed tagging their full complement of players. When Audentes tagged fully about a week into the round they jumped into second place but Ascendancy, lacking sufficient numbers, lagged well behind the others. With the initial post-[[protection]] roiding over Denial's military began to swing into gear. Steadily gaining more roids than any other alliance each night by the time two weeks of the round had elapsed Denial were in the #1 spot with a small but significant lead over the chasing pack and a 20% roid lead over ND, who had the second highest roid count. It was clear to the other alliances at this point that anyone wishing to challenge for the top spot had to go through Denial first. ND, then #2, Audentes, in #3, and Ascendancy, the previous round winners, came together to form a loose [[block]] with the goal of knocking down Denial.


Denial, for their part, were [[NAP]]ed with [[ROCK]], with whom they had arrangements with from pre-round. However the block was able to inflict losses on Denial and, despite not working together every night, dropped Denial by some 15% of their roids and were able to keep them non-[[roid fat]] over the next week. ND and Ascendancy both benefited from this and were able to gain significantly and close the gap to the top spot. Ascendancy, in particular, grew massively from having a large number of [[late signup]]s in top galaxies, most of which were already dominated by Ascendancy anyways. This led to Ascendancy taking the #1 size ranking off CT shortly over 3 weeks into the round, CT having replaced Denial after the block began hitting them.


==Final Rankings==
Conversely Audentes suffered due to their participation in the block. Viewed by Denial as the weakest link in the group they had experienced heavy incs from Denial, aided by Rock. Ascendancy and ND, having only been targeted infrequently, were in much better shape than Audentes. Aud, seeing their chance of #1 fade, and wanting to regroup to avoid any chance of the alliance collapsing, pulled out of targeting Denial and went back to galaxy raiding. ND, now looking at a potential block of only themselves and Ascendancy, were reluctant to continue. Despite being close to #1 themselves ND pulled out, citing tiredness in their members and [[officer]]s. Although every alliance was now back in a politically neutral state the overall picture had changed in the previous ten days or so. Audentes were effectively finished as a competitor for #1, ND had faded somewhat, and while Denial had retained the top spot Ascendancy had come on strong and with their roid lead were favourites to take the lead within the next few days.


* [[ Round 29 Top 100 Planets|Final Planet Rankings]]
With the top alliances all gal-raiding Ascendancy hit the top spot without facing heavy incoming. As they began to pull away on the back of their roid-lead Denial made a move to attempt to restore parity. After talking to a number of different alliances they were able to get [[VGN]], ROCK and ND to agree to target Ascendancy with them. The first night of attacks saw Ascendancy take heavy roid losses, although not as high as may have been expected. Ascendancy had, again, set up their planets very defensively, going heavily [[Xan]] and for [[Ship_Class#Fighter_.28FI.29|fi]]/[[Ship_Class#Corvette_.28CO.29|co]] fleets and the associated low [[travel time]]s. The involved alliances also [[crashing|crashed]] away a large amount of [[value]] on various high ranking Ascendancy planets in these attacks. After the block kept up the pressure the next couple of nights Ascendancy, looking for [[ally|allies]] agreed on a [[NAP]] with CT, who had also been approached by others with a view to targeting Ascendancy. Previously approached by Ascendancy with a view to targeting Denial CT had responded by offering an end-of-round NAP. This in turn was taken up by Ascendancy when the odds seemed heavily weighted against them.


* [[Round 29 Top 50 Galaxies|Final Galaxy Rankings]]
The effective climax of alliance warfare that round arrived on the fourth day of the attacks against Ascendancy. 3.2, home to [[elviz]], at that stage a #1 planet contender, as well as a number of other high ranked Ascendancy planets, was heavily waved by the opposing alliances. With the earlier waves on elviz all covered a large [[Ship_Class#Cruiser_.28CR.29|cr]]/[[Ship_Class#Battleship_.28BA_or_BS.29|bs]] wave from Denial was launched late in the day. Ascendancy, defending with virtually all the anti-cr/bs left in the ally, as well as borrowing def fleets from people in Ascendancy galaxies, covered this final wave. Despite this Denial landed, hoping enough of the defence was fake and lost some 5 million value to Ascendancy's 1 million, increasing the score gap between the alliances even further. As Ascendancy had been targeting back Denial during this war they had been unable to decrease the roid gap by a genuinely meaningful amount. Deciding that their chances of #1 were gone Denial approached Ascendancy and the two agreed to cease planet-targeting each other.


* [[Round 30 Top 30 Alliances|Final Alliance Rankings]]
With Denial pulling out any opposition to Ascendancy effectively collapsed. Ascendancy, along with CT, were able to pick off high ranking planets at will. Although every galaxy and almost every top non-Asc/CT planet was roided two particularly notable sequences of events transpired around the same time, within a few days of the end of the war. [[LukeyLove]] of ND, 4.7.7, was #1 planet with a substantial roid lead, secured during the war, at this time. Ascendancy, looking to put one of their own planets on top, targeted him and took 50% of his roids off him over the space of a few days, as well as roiding a number of other hostile planets in his galaxy, which was split between Ascendancy, Denial and ND primarily. Ascendancy and CT also hit 5.3 at this time, who were the #1 galaxy at that stage. In an attempt to avoid losing roids, [[Reese]], Denial [[HC]], got herself exiled out of the galaxy, although as it transpired she was not on the target list for either alliance due to a breakdown in communications. With the loss of score from this and the roids lost in the following raid 5.3 dropped out of contention for top galaxy. The three remaining contenders for top galaxy were 1.10, dominated by Ascendancy, and 7.8 and 4.7, with a number of Ascendancy planets in each. 1.10, with its higher number of Ascendancy planets, received less incs than the other galaxies, and were able to pull away in the last week of the round.


===Miscellaneous===
After lukeylove was roided there were 3 planets, all Ascendancy, remaining in the race for #1 planet. [[Cardinal]] effectively abandoned his chances by going on vacation for the final week of the round, leaving [[Sunny]], 4.7.9, and [[Achi]], 1.10.7, competing against each other. With both gaining nearly 3k roids in the last 10 days of the round this was a remarkably intense contest. In the closest race for top planet in the history of the game Sunny pipped Achi on the finishing line, winning by less than 50k score. As the round finished Ascendancy again dominated the top planet and galaxy ranks and finished #1 alliance by a convincing margin over CT. Their victory this round moved them into an elite group of alliances to have won twice in a row and the challenge was now up to the rest of the universe to defeat them in [[Round 30]].


<pre>Top 100 Launchers
=Final Rankings=
Rank Planet X:Y:Z Launches
1 Skynet 8:7:4 241
2 dingdongdang 5:1:5 200
3 DENIAL 1:10:7 186
4 Killmotor Hill 1:2:5 185
5 Urpa 4:7:9 182
6 Distorters 5:1:9 181
7 Camelot 2:9:3 181
8 Discworld 6:7:11 180
9 A LEGEND 7:8:11 179
10 Kautokeino 2:10:7 178
11 Boys 11:9:8 175
12 the seven seas 3:10:4 173
13 USA 2:9:13 170
14 Montagues 7:8:4 169
15 Arion 7:4:4 169
16 Destruction 10:7:13 166
17 Benbigs Homeworld 4:9:8 165
18 Lama Lama Lama Land 3:10:10 165
19 The Brethren 3:2:1 165
20 Enemies 11:6:2 164
21 Janeiro 6:3:7 163
22 Natures Revenge 2:2:8 163
23 M ü n c h e n 5:2:2 163
24 Danmark 1:10:16 163
25 Urma 4:7:8 162
26 ovomaltine 7:8:18 161
27 The Wolf 3:7:9 160
28 Wine and Parties 1:3:10 160
29 Leroy Jenkins 2:10:1 159
30 Lesbian Association 4:2:18 157
31 Grogs Moustache 3:9:9 157
32 Extreme Metal 7:7:6 157
33 The UK 1:10:12 154
34 Playing Earnest 3:2:11 154
35 Iron 5:2:3 154
36 Kemet 10:7:1 153
37 Minor Irritation 4:2:15 153
38 Dreamz 8:9:1 153
39 NorthPole 10:5:4 153
40 Silent Death 5:5:8 153
41 Spacehamsters 11:7:5 152
42 Jedi Council 1:8:2 152
43 Contrast 4:7:7 152
44 Brethren 7:6:13 151
45 Lala Land 6:4:9 150
46 Hawaiian god 7:8:2 150
47 War and Sex 1:7:3 149
48 unit B 7:7:2 149
49 Live and Let Die 11:9:18 148
50 Raven Banner 7:8:13 148
51 a Barbed Wire Slap 3:2:3 148
52 Of Salvranicus 4:5:14 148
53 Farnhams Freehold 2:8:2 147
54 _Clearsup_Confusion_ 1:9:17 147
55 The Trappist 5:1:2 145
56 Ozzzzzzz 3:10:3 145
57 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID 5:3:5 145
58 Celestial Being 5:2:4 145
59 The Navy 2:10:17 144
60 COULD BEAT DENIAL 1:10:8 144
61 The_Jedi_Council 1:8:8 144
62 Vier 7:8:7 144
63 Krasnegar 7:1:3 143
64 Bleach 3:9:8 143
65 Craptastic 9:6:4 143
66 Linguticlum 7:8:10 143
67 my insanity 1:3:13 142
68 tick 0-1 8:8:4 142
69 Homers kitchen DOH 9:4:7 142
70 The Olympus Mons 10:7:8 141
71 Perfect Stranger 1:7:8 141
72 Sound 5:3:3 141
73 The Righteous 3:9:10 141
74 Sweet Sixteen 5:2:10 141
75 a Barbarian 9:9:1 140
76 MY EXCEPTIONAL SKILL 1:10:9 140
77 Suicidal Guinea Pigs 11:9:10 140
78 Chasing Cars 10:2:15 140
79 Laconia 5:10:13 140
80 _Suburbia_ 5:2:11 139
81 -Camelot- 2:9:4 139
82 Communist Russia 5:2:8 139
83 Wanna land ?? 2:9:5 139
84 Critters 6:10:8 138
85 That One Place 2:9:1 138
86 Storms 1:10:5 138
87 Black Books 3:2:8 138
88 Narcto 4:7:3 137
89 Istari order 2:8:8 137
90 SaidThe TicKtoCkmAn 2:8:1 137
91 ??? 1:7:10 137
92 The Underground 3:7:8 137
93 rubiak 6:4:7 137
94 my planet 5:3:13 137
95 Spicer 10:9:7 136
96 Station420 11:7:13 136
97 Parley 4:6:19 136
98 Service 3:2:17 135
99 China 4:7:1 135
100 Liberate me 7:7:7 135</pre>
<pre>
Top 100 Covert Operation Planets
Rank Planet X:Y:Z Operations Successes
1 Ehm OF Dunno 2:8:10 491 486
2 Kyrpäjooseppi OF Kautokeino 2:10:7 472 454
3 dont know OF how to play 11:9:14 535 423
4 MrBachelor OF League 0 1:7:12 440 420
5 Cohen the Barbarian OF Discworld 6:7:11 386 331
6 art OF ultimate pleasure 5:1:4 393 331
7 Consuming Tons OF BudLight 5:10:9 389 317
8 Sweet Child OF Mine 5:1:12 325 316
9 Hegio OF Of Salvranicus 4:5:14 361 303
10 The Last OF The Waffles 4:7:11 309 282
11 is this OF for real 11:3:5 339 258
12 Barrack OF Obama 7:9:19 295 253
13 Ziko OF nian 4:6:4 259 236
14 Museum OF Hoaxes 3:1:4 230 207
15 fear is OF not an option 6:10:7 196 187
16 Ze Carlos OF Matarruanos 2:9:11 202 182
17 BlitzKrieg OF The Carbon Worlds 5:1:10 212 178
18 Arbiter OF Craptastic 9:6:4 190 170
19 King Og OF Bashan 8:8:6 166 161
20 the hairy whale OF idleness 9:1:8 172 159
21 The wanderer OF Lost not found 1:9:3 172 157
22 Rizzle OF Da Frumation 3:9:7 176 157
23 Ben Bailey OF Cash Cab in NYC 10:9:10 166 150
24 Wanderer OF Homeless 3:2:9 165 146
25 JeRiKo OnE OF Earth0815 4:10:18 168 145
26 Juliet OF Capulets 2:8:13 166 139
27 rubiak OF rubiak 6:4:7 189 139
28 ghouri OF bewal 4:10:10 141 137
29 Trans Europe Express OF Kraftwerk 1:8:3 152 134
30 MTD OF RJB 8:1:12 167 133
31 Rocco i900 OF Ursula 3:10:1 135 128
32 Perversion OF A Truth 10:7:2 138 124
33 Bloodheart OF Midnightblood Legion 6:7:1 156 115
34 DukeNukem OF Duke 11:3:12 118 113
35 Blessing OF Salvation 6:3:2 125 107
36 Master OF Destruction 10:7:13 113 106
37 Captain Jack Sparrow OF The Black Pearl 6:10:10 134 106
38 I Am OF The One and Only 4:2:5 106 96
39 a-bit-chewy OF sidewinder gulch 4:9:12 108 85
40 Hoaas OF Hoaasworld 8:8:17 106 84
41 In Pursuit OF the English 11:8:1 96 81
42 reClaim OF Oo_oO 2:7:9 91 77
43 TheKungFuGrip OF G I JOE 3:1:8 106 77
44 Ongoing Evolution OF Creationist Theory 11:6:17 114 75
45 KingofPool OF Shotokan 8:2:18 80 69
46 Sails OF Charron 10:5:3 81 68
47 Tommy OF White Power Ranger 9:1:15 89 66
48 Breaker OF The Rules 11:6:12 94 64
49 Salo OF Garda 9:4:12 83 63
50 CleaningMuppet OF Mashed Potatoes 9:1:6 78 62
51 Bringer OF Gifts 5:5:14 69 61
52 Ancient Weapon OF Minor Irritation 4:2:15 74 60
53 David Sterling OF SAS 10:9:3 94 60
54 BanksEvil OF Evelin 3:1:1 77 59
55 Hespoth OF Vladgravia 4:6:14 78 58
56 Linkie OF Nailin Pailin 4:6:13 72 56
57 Baggio OF Hidden and Dangerous 1:2:8 67 54
58 titan OF Gattaca 200:20:4 62 53
59 See You in Hell OF SYiH 10:6:10 67 53
60 Bismarck XXXVI OF Galbadia 9:6:9 55 52
61 Silent Partner OF Full Time Job 6:3:4 79 52
62 Greta OF Binkelion 6:4:14 65 51
63 Juicy OF Fruits 9:9:3 59 50
64 60 Hz OF 808 Kick Drum 9:1:3 60 50
65 TheMaster OF TheScum 7:4:14 71 50
66 Day OF TheDog 6:3:11 87 50
67 Kannabis_Ra OF Station420 11:7:13 63 41
68 Terminator OF Judgement Day 8:1:5 40 36
69 the name OF my planet 5:3:13 44 36
70 Sniff OF Whiff 7:4:13 44 36
71 - Balls - OF - Steel - 5:10:12 66 35
72 Hugh Farnham OF Farnhams Freehold 2:8:2 37 34
73 MrNoName OF NoNameon 8:9:11 43 34
74 Cpt-Medrano OF DMC Colony 36 6:10:6 60 34
75 Stay away OF I got Ebola virus 6:3:5 34 33
76 mwarrior3 OF HaVoK 9:1:9 39 32
77 Cpt-FireBlade OF Hyrule 9:1:11 43 32
78 The Overlord OF You 11:8:12 39 31
79 Dark Knight OF Gotham 1:7:11 44 31
80 Rap OF Krasnegar 7:1:3 33 30
81 The Superiority OF Extreme Metal 7:7:6 40 30
82 thefourth OF thefifth 7:1:12 55 30
83 CaliCMan OF Hellfire Ter 7:2:5 43 29
84 Slave OF The Mistress 10:6:1 33 28
85 Jack Skellington OF Halloween Town 10:4:3 48 28
86 Maglore OF Runemanse 5:2:17 50 28
87 Amanda Palmer OF Dresden Dolls 11:8:4 33 27
88 ICasius OF Solace 2:10:12 47 27
89 Tycoon OF Killmotor Hill 1:2:5 39 26
90 hothot OF Wondergirls 5:5:16 32 25
91 LD OF Days Pheonix 11:4:5 37 25
92 Spacebaboon OF Monkey Planet 8:2:8 31 24
93 Role OF Fifth Business 7:2:8 46 22
94 Cin OF Away 1:1:3 27 21
95 Sparrow OF The Deserted Spire 200:6:3 35 21
96 Ruler Name OF Planet Name 10:2:9 21 19
97 Valinotorklazz OF A Deeper Darkness 200:17:2 29 19
98 Insidious Tempest OF Raveland 9:4:13 24 18
99 knolan OF zerogravity 9:1:4 24 18
100 Xerzannis OF Invictus Aeternum 10:8:7 26 18</pre>
<pre>
Top 10 Clusters
Cluster Asteroids Score
4 1,420,237 391,463,706
7 1,631,621 369,087,757
1 1,348,285 364,352,519
11 1,603,450 354,676,274
2 1,381,798 321,887,871
3 1,048,198 312,170,228
10 1,397,918 304,207,391
5 1,018,036 283,438,853
8 1,225,231 266,647,176
6 788,324 136,505,815
Top 10 Parallels
Parallel Asteroids Score
7 1,815,344 491,923,232
2 1,849,159 463,717,524
9 1,823,313 445,600,133
10 1,239,829 323,581,182
8 1,223,801 306,432,885
6 1,199,859 297,694,736
3 994,675 256,616,131
1 1,259,786 236,178,061
4 1,202,692 215,963,730
5 1,024,159 201,099,470
Races
Race Count (%) Best Planet Score Rank
Terran 364(25%) The Fall OF Night (3:7:6) 9,756,311 10
Cathaar 292(20%) The Hanging Gardens OF Babylon (10:7:7) 8,024,439 23
Xandathrii 298(20%) Grip OF Urpa (4:7:9) 12,477,237 1
Zikonian 286(20%) Obama for President OF USA (2:9:13) 10,177,229 8
Eitraides 180(12%) Political Oligarchy OF Communist Russia (5:2:8) 11,460,483 3
Governments
Government Count (%)
None 139 (9.79%)
Feudalism 66 (4.65%)
Dictatorship 172 (12.11%)
Democracy 461 (32.46%)
Unification 582 (40.99%)
Skins
Skin Name Usage
R6-9 Cathaar 1%
R6-9 Xandathrii 2%
Frozen World 0%
Round 21 11%
Round 21 v2 0%
The Gate 0%
Simple - Orange 0%
xVx 0%
Text Only 6%
Terran 0%
Mars 15%
Round 23 56%
Spreadsheet 1%
Total Universe Ships (633,737,104 total)
Harpy 28,415,213   Phoenix 8,237,938
Gryphon 11,548,291   Pegasus 12,155,857
Drake 7,592,471   Wyvern 6,495,993
Dragon 3,279,334   Minotaur 637,112
Leviathan 330,075   Behemoth 121,608
Beetle 30,664,964   Viper 30,983,058
Locust 2,633,508   Roach 7,603,514
Scarab 6,286,220   Tarantula 9,183,926
Mantis 4,037,927   Mosquito 1,182,676
Hornet 397,955   Termite 91,143
Phantom 113,825,431   Banshee 118,694,712
Wraith 6,779,245   Revenant 17,450,763
Spirit 5,715,098   Shadow 7,157,806
Spectre 16,484,688   Illusion 3,998,299
Mirage 650,948   Haunt 65,135
Corsair 36,179,843   Cutlass 25,312,234
Cutter 7,139,933   Clipper 6,270,160
Buccaneer 4,957,497   Rogue 3,389,982
Marauder 5,501,909   Pirate 3,754,816
Privateer 432,242   Ironclad 312,520
Galleon 90,995   Thief 4,742,460
Recluse 33,284,419   Ghost 18,476,866
Widow 17,077,889   Broadsword 1,520,296
Pillager 698,156   Scorpion 1,000,937
Merchant 744,855   Broker 103,014
Basilisk 45,173


Ship Race Key: Terran Cathaar Xandathrii Zikonian Eitraides
* [[Round_29:Planet_Ranks|Final Planet Rankings]]
</pre>
* [[Round_29:Galaxy_Ranks|Final Galaxy Rankings]]
<pre>Top 100 XP Planets
* [[Round_29:Alliance Ranks|Final Alliance Rankings]]
Rank Uni Rank Coords Ruler Planet Race XP
* [[Round_29:Miscellaneous Ranks|Miscellaneous Rankings]]
1 33 5:1:12 Sweet Child Mine Cathaar 76000
2 57 4:7:3 Necka Narcto Cathaar 60286
3 96 3:9:8 MrHatnClogs Bleach Xandathrii 44975
4 94 1:10:13 panic panick-ville Xandathrii 44960
5 441 9:9:1 Rage a Barbarian Xandathrii 43486
6 302 5:1:4 art ultimate pleasure Cathaar 43413
7 142 10:7:4 takes two to tango Cathaar 42370
8 93 5:10:6 Acheron Katoteros Xandathrii 40911
9 74 1:3:2 I am DCing ComeBigOrStayAtHome Cathaar 40821
10 138 7:1:1 dont care dont know why Xandathrii 40102
11 352 1:8:3 Trans Europe Express Kraftwerk Cathaar 39161
12 149 2:10:7 Kyrpäjooseppi Kautokeino Cathaar 38641
13 183 7:7:10 Scanner Your Planet Terran 38552
14 156 4:7:11 The Last The Waffles Cathaar 37792
15 184 2:9:16 u dont see me Xandathrii 37242
16 50 3:7:5 Coilette Robonia Cathaar 36703
17 315 11:1:6 Knights The Green Shield Eitraides 36580
18 329 8:8:1 A State Trance Cathaar 36264
19 345 1:7:12 MrBachelor League 0 Cathaar 36190
20 221 6:3:9 Tormentor Souls Cathaar 35480
21 237 3:9:2 ftz Smashgang Cathaar 35273
22 141 1:3:6 Sethvir Althain Tower Xandathrii 35160
23 180 1:10:15 Hosie Eisoh Xandathrii 34752
24 340 2:9:9 Ace King suited world of magic Xandathrii 34443
25 112 5:2:10 Repentance Sweet Sixteen Zikonian 34059
26 7 5:1:5 sounds dingdongdang Xandathrii 33973
27 304 2:8:10 Ehm Dunno Terran 33705
28 62 11:7:3 Lain Cyberia Cathaar 33383
29 91 3:9:9 The Hair Grogs Moustache Xandathrii 32899
30 272 6:3:5 Stay away I got Ebola virus Cathaar 32748
31 563 4:9:4 Expectations Greatness Zikonian 32548
32 47 5:3:3 Speed Sound Xandathrii 32516
33 127 3:9:19 On -Top- The -Hill- Terran 32375
34 277 2:8:13 Juliet Capulets Zikonian 32238
35 4 7:8:11 BIRTH A LEGEND Xandathrii 32233
36 209 8:2:17 Legatus Corbulo Traiectum Xandathrii 31955
37 128 4:10:4 Augustiner Hells Cathaar 31454
38 325 1:2:1 Keeper The Underworld Eitraides 30967
39 137 8:2:10 Grayson Pool Terran 30960
40 287 11:9:14 dont know how to play Zikonian 30857
41 249 11:9:12 Loyal WoRkeR ThE AnTHiLL Xandathrii 30777
42 216 2:6:10 Caligo Astrum Vestri Maximus Vereo Terran 30500
43 582 4:9:16 A V A S E K S N O G A R D Eitraides 30486
44 175 2:10:17 Admiral The Navy Xandathrii 30461
45 44 11:6:11 The life Brian Terran 30088
46 60 11:9:10 The Dealer Suicidal Guinea Pigs Xandathrii 30088
47 81 9:9:11 280114 610227 Eitraides 30010
48 27 3:7:9 The Hour The Wolf Eitraides 29966
49 245 4:5:14 Hegio Of Salvranicus Cathaar 29954
50 447 10:6:7 See You Next Tuesday Xandathrii 29921
51 208 6:7:11 Cohen the Barbarian Discworld Zikonian 29914
52 285 10:2:17 Bestial Lust Nocturnal Supremacy Xandathrii 29863
53 135 11:9:18 Dr Kananga Live and Let Die Cathaar 29765
54 207 11:2:8 Ziggy Lazy_Town Eitraides 29640
55 53 7:8:12 Age Innocence Xandathrii 29447
56 167 11:6:5 Lizardking so seXi!! Cathaar 29436
57 67 1:8:8 Mace Windu The_Jedi_Council Zikonian 29203
58 293 4:5:13 Per Borten Cathaar 29160
59 192 8:2:2 Steve Jobs Apple Inc Cathaar 29123
60 111 11:9:8 Dope Boys Xandathrii 29104
61 18 4:7:1 Emperor China Xandathrii 28956
62 368 4:6:14 Hespoth Vladgravia Cathaar 28951
63 24 1:9:17 Breath-taking_Mobact _Clearsup_Confusion_ Terran 28950
64 217 7:4:4 Planet Arion Cathaar 28931
65 155 10:5:10 The Making A Good Time Eitraides 28877
66 278 1:9:5 Procrastinator Procrastina Xandathrii 28852
67 353 2:6:9 Lady Khugan The World of Ice Eitraides 28849
68 214 10:7:8 Bird Dream The Olympus Mons Xandathrii 28844
69 220 4:5:4 Sifr Black Knights Eitraides 28833
70 380 3:10:14 Sick This Xandathrii 28832
71 162 2:10:2 Asphixiator Persophelis Cathaar 28589
72 303 8:9:17 Wee Jock PooPoo McPlop Terran 28413
73 95 10:2:10 Nightdriver Genesis Zikonian 28318
74 412 7:8:17 Gorden Bombay The Mighty Ducks Xandathrii 28313
75 319 2:6:3 Superman Krypton Terran 28240
76 534 7:1:10 ODD odds Cathaar 28171
77 523 3:2:16 Klepto Maniac Zikonian 28074
78 145 11:7:9 Edward Bloom Spectre Cathaar 28050
79 79 1:3:4 people ppc Xandathrii 28048
80 117 3:10:6 That Dude The Longest Yard Xandathrii 27967
81 114 5:10:2 Quick Ben Bridgeburners Eitraides 27936
82 265 4:2:5 I Am The One and Only Cathaar 27930
83 174 7:1:4 Supply Demand Xandathrii 27892
84 164 3:10:10 Adama Lama Lama Lama Lama Lama Land Xandathrii 27886
85 269 3:9:12 Kim Possible Save the Day Xandathrii 27831
86 259 11:9:9 The Time Our Lives Cathaar 27768
87 201 8:2:7 Oceans Infinity Zikonian 27747
88 369 4:2:9 Henry The XVIII England Cathaar 27719
89 116 7:7:18 Ihsahn Emperor Terran 27660
90 516 11:2:3 Sportacus Lazy Town Terran 27593
91 321 2:10:4 Cpt Malcolm Reynolds Firefly Terran 27564
92 210 5:2:2 L ö w e n b r ä u M ü n c h e n Xandathrii 27503
93 125 1:8:2 Qui-Gon Jinn Jedi Council Xandathrii 27461
94 462 4:10:2 SCK WONTONS Eitraides 27436
95 139 11:6:3 The Whitest Black People Cathaar 27421
96 29 5:2:1 The Cunning Plan A Devious Mind Terran 27378
97 13 4:7:7 High Contrast Xandathrii 27325
98 102 4:2:15 Ancient Weapon Minor Irritation Cathaar 27273
99 421 6:10:7 fear is not an option Cathaar 27220
100 426 8:8:9 lazyC lCrazy Xandathrii 27219</pre>


==See Also==
==See Also==


* [[Round 29:End of Round Ceremony|R29 EORC]]
* [[Round 29:End of Round Ceremony|R29 EORC]]
* [[:Category:Alliances:Round 29|Alliances In R29]]
* [[:Category:Alliances:Round 29|Alliances in R29]]
* [[Round 29:Ship Stats|Ship Stats]]

Latest revision as of 06:07, 24 June 2013

Dates and Times

  • Round 29 Signups: Monday 13th October 2008
  • Round 29 Start: Friday 31st October 2008
  • Round 29 End: Friday 19th December 2008

Round Information

Some of the main changes for Round 29:

  • Basic (free) accounts now have unlimited population, government, journal/history and buddy pack abilities.
  • Premium (paid) accounts will have no adverts, more skins, and a one off boost to resources or asteroids as well as constructions or researches, to be selected at some time after upgrade.
  • Covert ops agents and security guards now give value
  • There is now a new Core Resource technology, and the last 3 give a bigger resource bonus
  • Guards / security agents in production can be canceled for a partial refund
  • The Technology and Surface Scans have been merged into the 'Development Scan', and a 'Landing Scan' replaces the Surface Scan. The Landing Scan can be used at ETA 1 to a target planet and lists the number of attacking and defending fleets, but not the co-ords or number of ships.

Round Summary

After the rather one-sided Round 28, Denial returned as an alliance for Round 29, with the same HC and a similar memberbase to that they finished Round 27 with. A new alliance entered the fray in the form of Audentes, with a core from Jenova and a number of players recruited from other alliances. The other alliances viewed as possible contenders were CT, ND and Ascendancy, who started off with a smaller tag than the previous round. With both Ascendancy looking less powerful and Denial entering fully into the round this looked initially like it would be a closely contested round.

At first ND took an early lead ahead of CT, albeit primarily based on the fact that Denial delayed tagging their full complement of players. When Audentes tagged fully about a week into the round they jumped into second place but Ascendancy, lacking sufficient numbers, lagged well behind the others. With the initial post-protection roiding over Denial's military began to swing into gear. Steadily gaining more roids than any other alliance each night by the time two weeks of the round had elapsed Denial were in the #1 spot with a small but significant lead over the chasing pack and a 20% roid lead over ND, who had the second highest roid count. It was clear to the other alliances at this point that anyone wishing to challenge for the top spot had to go through Denial first. ND, then #2, Audentes, in #3, and Ascendancy, the previous round winners, came together to form a loose block with the goal of knocking down Denial.

Denial, for their part, were NAPed with ROCK, with whom they had arrangements with from pre-round. However the block was able to inflict losses on Denial and, despite not working together every night, dropped Denial by some 15% of their roids and were able to keep them non-roid fat over the next week. ND and Ascendancy both benefited from this and were able to gain significantly and close the gap to the top spot. Ascendancy, in particular, grew massively from having a large number of late signups in top galaxies, most of which were already dominated by Ascendancy anyways. This led to Ascendancy taking the #1 size ranking off CT shortly over 3 weeks into the round, CT having replaced Denial after the block began hitting them.

Conversely Audentes suffered due to their participation in the block. Viewed by Denial as the weakest link in the group they had experienced heavy incs from Denial, aided by Rock. Ascendancy and ND, having only been targeted infrequently, were in much better shape than Audentes. Aud, seeing their chance of #1 fade, and wanting to regroup to avoid any chance of the alliance collapsing, pulled out of targeting Denial and went back to galaxy raiding. ND, now looking at a potential block of only themselves and Ascendancy, were reluctant to continue. Despite being close to #1 themselves ND pulled out, citing tiredness in their members and officers. Although every alliance was now back in a politically neutral state the overall picture had changed in the previous ten days or so. Audentes were effectively finished as a competitor for #1, ND had faded somewhat, and while Denial had retained the top spot Ascendancy had come on strong and with their roid lead were favourites to take the lead within the next few days.

With the top alliances all gal-raiding Ascendancy hit the top spot without facing heavy incoming. As they began to pull away on the back of their roid-lead Denial made a move to attempt to restore parity. After talking to a number of different alliances they were able to get VGN, ROCK and ND to agree to target Ascendancy with them. The first night of attacks saw Ascendancy take heavy roid losses, although not as high as may have been expected. Ascendancy had, again, set up their planets very defensively, going heavily Xan and for fi/co fleets and the associated low travel times. The involved alliances also crashed away a large amount of value on various high ranking Ascendancy planets in these attacks. After the block kept up the pressure the next couple of nights Ascendancy, looking for allies agreed on a NAP with CT, who had also been approached by others with a view to targeting Ascendancy. Previously approached by Ascendancy with a view to targeting Denial CT had responded by offering an end-of-round NAP. This in turn was taken up by Ascendancy when the odds seemed heavily weighted against them.

The effective climax of alliance warfare that round arrived on the fourth day of the attacks against Ascendancy. 3.2, home to elviz, at that stage a #1 planet contender, as well as a number of other high ranked Ascendancy planets, was heavily waved by the opposing alliances. With the earlier waves on elviz all covered a large cr/bs wave from Denial was launched late in the day. Ascendancy, defending with virtually all the anti-cr/bs left in the ally, as well as borrowing def fleets from people in Ascendancy galaxies, covered this final wave. Despite this Denial landed, hoping enough of the defence was fake and lost some 5 million value to Ascendancy's 1 million, increasing the score gap between the alliances even further. As Ascendancy had been targeting back Denial during this war they had been unable to decrease the roid gap by a genuinely meaningful amount. Deciding that their chances of #1 were gone Denial approached Ascendancy and the two agreed to cease planet-targeting each other.

With Denial pulling out any opposition to Ascendancy effectively collapsed. Ascendancy, along with CT, were able to pick off high ranking planets at will. Although every galaxy and almost every top non-Asc/CT planet was roided two particularly notable sequences of events transpired around the same time, within a few days of the end of the war. LukeyLove of ND, 4.7.7, was #1 planet with a substantial roid lead, secured during the war, at this time. Ascendancy, looking to put one of their own planets on top, targeted him and took 50% of his roids off him over the space of a few days, as well as roiding a number of other hostile planets in his galaxy, which was split between Ascendancy, Denial and ND primarily. Ascendancy and CT also hit 5.3 at this time, who were the #1 galaxy at that stage. In an attempt to avoid losing roids, Reese, Denial HC, got herself exiled out of the galaxy, although as it transpired she was not on the target list for either alliance due to a breakdown in communications. With the loss of score from this and the roids lost in the following raid 5.3 dropped out of contention for top galaxy. The three remaining contenders for top galaxy were 1.10, dominated by Ascendancy, and 7.8 and 4.7, with a number of Ascendancy planets in each. 1.10, with its higher number of Ascendancy planets, received less incs than the other galaxies, and were able to pull away in the last week of the round.

After lukeylove was roided there were 3 planets, all Ascendancy, remaining in the race for #1 planet. Cardinal effectively abandoned his chances by going on vacation for the final week of the round, leaving Sunny, 4.7.9, and Achi, 1.10.7, competing against each other. With both gaining nearly 3k roids in the last 10 days of the round this was a remarkably intense contest. In the closest race for top planet in the history of the game Sunny pipped Achi on the finishing line, winning by less than 50k score. As the round finished Ascendancy again dominated the top planet and galaxy ranks and finished #1 alliance by a convincing margin over CT. Their victory this round moved them into an elite group of alliances to have won twice in a row and the challenge was now up to the rest of the universe to defeat them in Round 30.

Final Rankings

See Also

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