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Round 34 began with what was perceived as a very open playing field. The two alliances which had dominated the preceding rounds, [[Apprime]] and [[Ascendancy]], were initially a little below the tag limit and took advantage of this by staying under the radar. The frontrunners at the start were [[NewDawn]], [[Conspiracy Theory]], and the re-emerging [[Subh]]. There were questions over the strength and resilience of these alliances and none of them wanted to engage in war early on, which led to galaxy raiding strategies being employed. As the ticks passed and it became clear that the galaxies with the highest concentrations of Ascendancy and Apprime were impossible to roid with such raids, and both alliances, especially Apprime, grew fat despite sitting outside the top5. A temporary co-operation of [[ND]], [[CT]], [[DLR]], [[Euphoria]] and Subh attacked all Apprime core galaxies in one night as a solution to that issue. Apprime felt this was unfair, and a long-term conflict emerged between them and DLR/Euphoria, although they started by targeting the percieved weakest link of the attackers. Subh, concerned over the growth of Ascendancy and the fact that , who had remained roughly unaligned, choose to co-operated with DLR/Euphoria in exchange for help with Ascendancy later on. This led to a situation developing with [[block]]s of ND/CT/DLR/Subh/Euphoria on one side and Ascendancy/Apprime and slightly later on [[VisioN]] on the other. These blocks remained in place until the end of the round. | Round 34 began with what was perceived as a very open playing field. The two alliances which had dominated the preceding rounds, [[Apprime]] and [[Ascendancy]], were initially a little below the tag limit and took advantage of this by staying under the radar. The frontrunners at the start were [[NewDawn]], [[Conspiracy Theory]], and the re-emerging [[Subh]]. There were questions over the strength and resilience of these alliances and none of them wanted to engage in war early on, which led to galaxy raiding strategies being employed. As the ticks passed and it became clear that the galaxies with the highest concentrations of Ascendancy and Apprime were impossible to roid with such raids, and both alliances, especially Apprime, grew fat despite sitting outside the top5. A temporary co-operation of [[ND]], [[CT]], [[DLR]], [[Euphoria]] and Subh attacked all Apprime core galaxies in one night as a solution to that issue. Apprime felt this was unfair, and a long-term conflict emerged between them and DLR/Euphoria, although they started by targeting the percieved weakest link of the attackers. Subh, concerned over the growth of Ascendancy and the fact that , who had remained roughly unaligned, choose to co-operated with DLR/Euphoria in exchange for help with Ascendancy later on. This led to a situation developing with [[block]]s of ND/CT/DLR/Subh/Euphoria on one side and Ascendancy/Apprime and slightly later on [[VisioN]] on the other. These blocks remained in place until the end of the round. | ||
Revision as of 00:39, 20 January 2010
Dates and Times
Signups opened at 20:00 GMT on Saturday, 24th October
Ticks started at 20:00 GMT on Saturday, 7th Novemember
Ticks finished at 20:00 GMT on Friday, 18th December
Round Summary
Round 34 began with what was perceived as a very open playing field. The two alliances which had dominated the preceding rounds, Apprime and Ascendancy, were initially a little below the tag limit and took advantage of this by staying under the radar. The frontrunners at the start were NewDawn, Conspiracy Theory, and the re-emerging Subh. There were questions over the strength and resilience of these alliances and none of them wanted to engage in war early on, which led to galaxy raiding strategies being employed. As the ticks passed and it became clear that the galaxies with the highest concentrations of Ascendancy and Apprime were impossible to roid with such raids, and both alliances, especially Apprime, grew fat despite sitting outside the top5. A temporary co-operation of ND, CT, DLR, Euphoria and Subh attacked all Apprime core galaxies in one night as a solution to that issue. Apprime felt this was unfair, and a long-term conflict emerged between them and DLR/Euphoria, although they started by targeting the percieved weakest link of the attackers. Subh, concerned over the growth of Ascendancy and the fact that , who had remained roughly unaligned, choose to co-operated with DLR/Euphoria in exchange for help with Ascendancy later on. This led to a situation developing with blocks of ND/CT/DLR/Subh/Euphoria on one side and Ascendancy/Apprime and slightly later on VisioN on the other. These blocks remained in place until the end of the round.
The block containing Subh and others, were faced with very unfavourable shipstats as both Ascendancy and Apprime had gone mainly ETD and Zik, two races which were very strong against the main attack classes of the round, fi/co. This made defense easier for the two former round-winning alliances, and with a strong defense base they also started attracting big enemy planets into their fold, espcially from the top galaxies. The superior activity and shared defense fleets of Apprime/Asc cause a large number of crashing and they slowly gained ground on the rest of the universe. Initially Ascendancy rose to the #1 ranking ahead of ND and Apprime but Apprime were able to gain roids quickly as their attack fleets were cr/bs, and thus rarely needed for defense, while still holding their own with Ascendancy's help against incoming fi/co. Eventually these things combined with a slightly larger focus from the opposite block on attacking Ascendancy allowed Apprime to take the lead. They only increased the lead from that point on and the round was effectively over with 2 weeks to spare.
The planet race was fairly close untill the end, with Wishmaster stealing a large amount of xan ships on the last day for a big value gain to secure the win, despite his closest rival Pablitem benefitting from escorts. This marked the 8th time in the last 9 rounds where Ascendancy had at least 5 of the top 10 planets, (the odd round out being round 27, where they only had 4) a staggering achievment of dominance.
Galaxy wise, 1:2 had remained largely out of the war, partly due to being hard to hit and partly due to fencesitting/shipjumpers to Apprime, and benifitted from this to resoundingly beat the biggest original Apprime (7:3) and Ascendancy (3:2) core galaxies.
Final Rankings
Top 30 Alliances
Rank Name Asteroids Members AVG Score Score 1 Apprime 79604 56 4,993,899 279,658,395 2 Ascendancy 58762 55 4,545,214 249,986,772 3 Conspiracy 68768 69 4,112,492 246,749,561 4 NewDawn 64007 66 3,990,226 239,413,606 5 Euphoria 51052 45 4,568,557 205,585,092 6 Subh 53394 60 3,324,005 199,440,335 7 DLR 50807 40 4,855,185 194,207,401 8 ASS 39997 69 2,737,125 164,227,500 9 ODDR 45550 67 2,718,977 163,138,677 10 VisioN 33811 48 3,308,050 158,786,406 11 p3nguins 38945 38 3,756,511 142,747,420 12 F-Crew 30425 62 2,208,134 132,488,069 13 Howling Rain 26030 43 2,871,467 123,473,121 14 xVx 20864 27 3,012,492 81,337,294 15 HellsFuryNCPrinc21636 38 1,970,521 74,879,819 16 Vengeance 13769 26 2,625,756 68,269,670 17 OuZo 8610 11 2,723,477 29,958,250 18 PATSA 6504 18 1,483,017 26,694,308 19 BBU ftw 3099 5 2,610,750 13,053,754 20 Mostly Harmless 2786 6 1,615,332 9,691,995 21 RooR 2328 5 1,478,686 7,393,430 22 Big Dog 1325 3 1,587,238 4,761,714 23 RVB 1839 3 1,210,160 3,630,480 24 Worlds Edge Tavern639 2 1,739,917 3,479,834 25 Simos 948 3 891,923 2,675,770 26 Diablo Badasses 1272 3 871,723 2,615,169 27 Army of One 268 1 2,605,472 2,605,472 28 0Free Entry Alliance852 2 1,262,982 2,525,964 29 TapeWorms 712 1 2,273,198 2,273,198 30 Total Vacuum 490 2 1,016,767 2,033,535
